Top Hat - Better Learning Software
Company Name: Top Hat Monocle
About: Top Hat’s interactive software helps college professors quickly activate classrooms by engaging
students over their own devices
Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Top Hat Overview
What is Top Hat?
Top Hat is an app that helps students learn better before, during, and after class. It is a comprehensive assessment platform that makes learning fun and engaging. The app allows students to connect with their professors, peers, and course content in and out of the classroom.
Features
- Follow your professor'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 professors and peers using in-app discussions
- Experience dynamic, interactive textbooks loaded up with images, videos, audio clips, and more
- Read your digital materials from anywhere and keep them forever
- 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.
Official Screenshots
Product Details and Description of
Top Hat is the perfect companion app to our 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 Content tailored to your course: • Experience dynamic, interactive textbooks loaded up with images, videos, audio clips and more • 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: support@this app.com or follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook @this app
Top Reviews
By Iemmzii
Definitely got better
The way that the professor utilizes this app is definitely important. Since you can't receive notifications for due dates, your professor will hopefully be diligent about that. Other than that, I think this is a really nice tool for classrooms. It's interactive, and has some cool question types (heat maps, clicking on images, matching, etc) although some of them are either difficult to use or don't work because my professors struggled. What's cool is you can go back and forward in the slides your professor has up so if you're a slow writer you can still get all the notes. Overall, this is a really nice idea and needs a little work but I enjoyed having it in my class. Definitely could do with more organization in the content, it's a little overwhelming when all the slides are posted and you're trying to study.
By Wow. So bad.
Overall great app
Great app. Just an idea... I think when you open the app it should have the class that you’re in at the top of the list. I think if the instructors had to input the days of the week the class meets and the time their class is it would be an easy feature to add. I gave it 4 stars because I don’t like that to Mark attendance you have to allow the app to always use your location. I think in using your location while using the app would be sufficient.
By Horace06
A hip class structure with no functionality.
If you have a crippling case of FOMO then this is for you, however If you don’t then you will ultimately find this application/service pointless. Schools and universities without an integrated web platform may get some use out of this, but for those who already have one, this is just another worthless service to add on top of your schools online platform. Almost no functionality on any mobile devices; the interface is less inspiring than MS DOS. File previews don’t exist. The instructors and TAs are either technologically illiterate (unlikely), or this program is about as user friendly as an etch-a-sketch. This product is not ready to be something a student is required to pay for. It’s basically in the pre alpha development stage. I would be willing to pay another 28 dollars to not have to use this for the rest of the semester. I wish I could have rated it one star, but this app isn’t even inspiring enough to warrant that much rage or disgust. Mediocre garbage.
