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Table of Contents
Students
- Quick start guide
- Mobile apps
Instructors
Students
Instructors
Getting started
Blackboard
Canvas
Presenting content
An overview of the types of content you can present using Top Hat.
Downloading and using applications
Attendance tracking
- Top Hat can be used to track attendance
by utilizing students' personal devices (smart phones, tablets, laptops, etc.) combined with a random 4-digit attendance code.
Using Top Hat in creative ways
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- Assign homework, presentations, quizzes, and more outside of class.
- Use for attendance purposes.
- Use for ice-breaking purposes (random question at start of lecture).
- Use with LMS for grading.
- Use with anonymous audiences.
- Create content for both synchronous and asynchronous interaction.
- Ask questions that drive additional discussion on a topic.
- Ask for participants' opinions on a topic.
- Personalize statistics to your local audience and then compare to external statistics.
- Create a time for telling. Ask participants what they think will happen if or when this or that happens.
- Check participants' understanding is where you want or need it to be throughout lectures.
- Assess prior knowledge on a topic before entering into related content.
- Deliver pre- and post-chapter/topic/lecture quizzes.
- Create content on the fly that is directly linked to something that happens in the moment.
- Anonymously monitor student progress on a project.
- Allow for anonymous peer evaluation of group work.
- Gather anonymous feedback from students about how a course is going.
- Compare audience responses by demographic.
- Structure a presentation to include competition between individuals or teams and then offer a small reward for the winner.
- Repeat a question more than once in a think-pair-share environment.
- Incorporate sufficient time for your audience to respond to questions and prompts.
- If you take the time to ask the audience to respond, you must also take the time to discuss their responses.
- Offer varied confidence level response options.
- Include high-quality distractor responses within questions that have a correct answer.
- Occasionally, offer participants an 'out' such as, "I need more information."
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