Top Hat - Better Learning

Top Hat Corporation

About this app

Top Hat is the comprehensive assessment platform that helps you learn better before, during and after class. Top Hat makes learning fun and engaging (seriously!) and sets you up for success, helping you connect with your professors, your peers and the content you're learning in and out of the classroom.

Here's what Top Hat offers you:

Compelling resources, delivered on your smartphone or laptop

• Follow your prof's lecture slides on your own device
• Contribute in class with an easy-to-use response system that's always with you
• Participate with your profs and peers using in-app discussions

Affordable textbooks that keep education costs down

• Experience dynamic, interactive textbooks loaded up with images, videos, audio clips and more
• Learn from content tailored to your course with information that's kept up-to-date in real time
• Read your digital materials from anywhere and keep them forever

Quizzes, tests and polls that improve learning comprehension

• Challenge yourself by taking polls and quizzes on your own devices
• Improve your knowledge retention with interactive assessment elements
• Check for gaps in your understanding with graded and non-graded homework and short quizzes

Thanks for using Top Hat. As you experience the app, we'd love to get your feedback: [e-mail] or follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook @TopHat

Ratings and reviews

Probably one of the worst apps I have used for any of my college courses. The grade calculation can't average correctly and the test function is broken. Top Hat told my professor that they don't know why. In addition, it barely works for ios. Thankfully I have an Android and its barely better.. Overall, this app has a lot of work to do before it becomes a wide-use app for classes on my campus and anywhere. Definitely would not recommend this app to anyone.

I wanted to like this app, but there are some flaws that make it not good. For text entry questions, my phone keeps showing a tooltip "Create strong password", even when its just a field to answer a question. I have to fight the app to put in the answer under a time limit, so I put random characters. This is terrible to use with time limits. Also, I want to review questions I've answered, but I can't see the questioms because of "Submission closed" window blocking the actual question. Terrible.

I've taken a lot of online college coursework and this is my least favorite app so far. On mobile, the chapters bounce around and reload when you leave the app and come back. The embedded videos are not centered well and sometimes mess with navigation as well. There is no read aloud feature. On PC, you are not able to put the screen in dark mode, and there's no easy way to see which assignments are completed.