Top Hat
Top Hat brings interactive student polling to the classroom – generating engagement, promoting attendance, and fostering collaboration. Top Hat utilizes student’s own personal devices (including iPads issued through the Digital Wolf Pack Initiative). The platform is centrally funded through a 2-year pilot meaning that all faculty and instructors can use the tool for free and there is no cost for students.
Top Hat resources for students
Learn more about Top Hat
With Top Hat, students engage in-class with formative assessment through live polls and quizzes integrated with your slides. Student participation and grade records are saved on the web and can be easily synced with the grade book in WebCampus.
Upcoming live training and events for Top Hat
There are currently no events
Top Hat resources for faculty
If you’d like to start using Top Hat in and need training, and or would like support transferring the content from PointSolutions to Top Hat, you can schedule a meeting with Sumi Voora, our Course Implementation Specialist at Top Hat, using this UNR specific booking link.
For more information and assistance contact the Office of Digital Learning via email, or by calling (775) 682-6798.
Creating your Top Hat account and connecting a course to WebCampus
- Sign into https://tophat.com and click Login in the top right corner of the screen.
- Enter University of Nevada and select University of Nevada – Reno from the list when prompted. Click Log in with school account.
- If you have used Top Hat at UNR in the past, enter your email address and password and click Merge my existing account with SSO. If this is your first time using Top Hat, click on Sign-up as a Professor.
- Enter your UNR email address and your first and last name and click on Get started.
- After you are logged in, you will need to create a course. Click Create Course in the upper right corner. Follow the prompts to create a course.
- After the course has been created, you will need to connect your course on Top Hat with the course on WebCampus. Go to WebCampus and then the course in which you use Top Hat. Click on the Top Hat link on the course navigation menu. Log in to Top Hat when prompted. Select the course you want to connect with. Authorize Top Hat’s access to your course on Canvas when prompted.
- The courses are now connected. You can proceed to create content (uploading slides, adding polling questions, etc.). Students will need to
Top Hat how-tos
- Educator quick start guide (support article)
- Uploading and revising slides
- Presenting slide decks and content (support article)
- Creating questions
- Setting up attendance and use secure attendance (video)
- Creating and presenting discussion threads (video)
Top Hat AI-powered assistant request form
Ace, Top Hat's new AI-powered assistant is being piloted at UNR. Please fill out the request form to participate in the pilot and activate Ace in your courses. Please allow approximately 3 business days for your request to be processed.