Polling anonymously with Top Hat

Description

The most common use of a Top Hat course is within the classroom, where the audience is known; however, instructors and staff may also wish to use the response system when the audience is unknown. For example, instructors and staff can use Top Hat questions to poll the audience of a conference presentation. In order to do so, the Top Hat course must be open to an anonymous audience. Currently, only Top Hat Support can create an open course.

Environment

Top Hat for Instructors

Solution 

1. Create a new course in your Top Hat account as usual.

2. Contact Top Hat Support ( support@tophat.com ) and provide Top Hat Support with the following:

   • lastname.# username

   • course code of the course you want to have made anonymous:

     • This code can be found directly after "e/" in the course URL. For example, if the course URL is " https://app.tophat.com/e/762297 ", the course code is "762297".

Top Hat support will send a confirmation by email once your course is ready for anonymous access.

Outcome:You should now be able to request an anonymous poll in Top Hat.

Get help from OIT

• Visit the  Live Student Response System: Top Hat  page to create a ticket

Additional resources

• Contact Top Hat Support

• Search the  Top Hat Knowledge Base