Top Hat - Better Learning
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Free | TopHatMonocle Corp | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Join thousands of professors using Top Hat to easily create an interactive lecture experience and increase student engagement in a higher education setting. With student polling and instant response, Top Hat is ideal for professors seeking a more exciting way to teach and an easier way to increase student participation! Deliver an unprecedented education experience with the ability to run your lecture at your fingertips; control your screen and the projector all from your iPad, while students follow along on their own devices.
It’s easy to get started - you’re one easy tap away from experiencing the classroom you imagined when you started your career in education as a professor.
Free for professors!
Features:
* Deliver your lecture from the palm of your hand - Liberate yourself from the podium and deliver your lecture from anywhere in the room with our iPad app.
* Automate attendance, grading, and participation - Make your life easier and never spend hours grading quizzes again!
* Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) - Students engage with you in class from their cell phones, smart phones, tablets, or laptops! If they’re engaging with you it means they’re not on Facebook.
* Question types to meet any teaching style - Launch open ended, multiple choice, click-on-image, and discussion questions to get all students (even the shy ones) talking.
* Discussions & polling - Gain instant feedback on whether you need to cover that last concept once more before moving on.
* Assign homework and review - Preserve precious class-time by creating questions, quizzes, or assignments that students can access outside of the lecture.
Reviews
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fskhou
Can’t seem to use the app on my phones I tried 3 devices 1. iPad 2. iPhone 8 3. IPhone XS. And the website only works on my laptop
Excellent if the professor knows how to use it
Puff puff Nation
I am lucky when I have professors who know how to properly use this app in a way that facilitates learning and retention of material. When the professor doesn’t know how to utilize the app, and uses it in a distracting way or cannot use the interface, that takes time out of the class and frustrates me and other learners. This app is pretty solid for students as it provides a good learning platform to assess learned facts as well as a source of review questions. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a professor and write hundreds of questions per semester for this app, though. Thankfully, I’m not a professor!
WiFi / cellular connection is really bad
Hv1806
The WiFi connection works half of the time and when I want to use the app over cellular connection, it doesn’t work at all. Please fix.
Works fine, permissions are weird
Ish Perez
Tried to access my class today and needed to set my location permissions to Always, rather than just While Using. Strange that I would need to let Top Hat use my location even when I'm not in class marking my attendance.
I already have to pay for classes, now this?
ScottieAnnie
I have tuition, books, and supplies on top of apartment payments, feeding myself, any medical bills, etc. I had to buy a subscription, sure it was $30 or so, but I had to get it in order to participate in class. Literally could’ve used Kahoot. It’s a good app, but not great for starving college students.
Location Tracking is obnoxious
My childhoodgaming
The setting of “Always” for location tracking is obnoxious. It makes more sense to have “while using app” but the app doesn’t allow for that.
SCAM SCAM SCAM
ceweenie
This is a scam. Useless. You wanna know how to improve this app? Get rid of it! :) Your making students, which most are in debt, pay more money for some stupid app that a pen and paper could easily do. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. SCAM SCAM SCAM
Gone downhill
Stylinson Swiftie
The app was working perfectly fine all semester until the most recent update. Ever since the newest version of the app came out, it crashes within thirty seconds every time I open it. I used to enjoy doing homework and answering questions from my phone, but I no longer have that luxury and I am disappointed. Please debug this app!
Refund
Brassa1031
I tried to get a refund for an unused subscription and was denied because it was after the 2 week refund period. My professor had a hard time trying to figure how to use it but insisted she would figure it out. COVID-19 started and she abandoned it for the easier to use school site we have. I’ve used the program for another class before and it worked well but the company policy and customer care is lacking. I had another peer who submitted the same complaint same time I did and received a refund.
Always makes my answer wrong!
Lalalandwonder
When my question is “select all apply” and I get my answers wrong and i have another attempt I fix them and click right answers and then submit it automatically saves the wrong answers!!! This always happens and it’s really becoming Titus.
