{"id":127035,"date":"2020-04-14T14:16:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=127035"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:13:25","slug":"top-hat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/teaching\/classroom\/audience-response\/top-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Boston University\u00a0<\/span>has an official partnership with Top Hat as a centrally supported active learning technology.<\/p>\n<h3>What is Top Hat?<\/h3>\n<p>Top Hat&#8217;s active learning technology helps professors engage students before, during and after class. <span>Top Hat helps you engage students in and out of the classroom through cutting-edge polling software, low-cost interactive content, flexible homework systems, and secure test-taking solutions. Top Hat also offers instructional design services to prep courses, train and work one-on-one with instructors to ensure they<\/span><span>\u2019re fully ready to use Top Hat for first day of class and beyond. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Benefits<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Assess your students using advanced question types<\/li>\n<li>Deliver interactive lectures<\/li>\n<li>Administer assignments, quizzes and exams in a single unified platform<\/li>\n<li>Track student progress and attendance in the Top Hat gradebook<\/li>\n<li>Receive industry-leading support for professors and students<\/li>\n<li>Sync grades directly to Blackboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Getting Started<\/h3>\n<h4>Faculty<\/h4>\n<p>Visit Top Hat&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/success.tophat.com\/s\/categoryhome\/Professor\">instructor support page<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<h4>Students<\/h4>\n<p>Visit Top Hat&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/tophat.com\/students\/\">student support page<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<p>If you need assistance with your TopHat account or subscription please contact<span> Top Hat<\/span><span>\u2019<\/span><span>s support team <\/span>directly at <span><a href=\"mailto:support@tophat.com\">support@tophat.com<\/a><\/span> or call <span>1-888-663-5491 as the IT Help Center does not support this technology directly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.tophat.com\/s\/article\/Student-Creating-Your-Account\">Create an account with Top Hat<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/support.tophat.com\/s\/article\/Student-Managing-My-Subscription-Payment-Renewing-Refunds\">Purchase a Top Hat subscription <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/support.tophat.com\/s\/article\/Student-Top-Hat-Overview-and-Getting-Started-Guide?RecordGvp.getRecord=1&amp;r=2&amp;ArticleView.getArticleHeaderDetail=1&amp;Quarterback.validateRoute=1&amp;ArticleTopicList.getTopics=1\">Review the Student Quick Start Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Cost (Students, as of 3\/1\/24. Subject to change.)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>4 months &#8211; $26<\/li>\n<li>1-year &#8211; $40<\/li>\n<li>4-years &#8211; $85<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">*The subscription applies to the full Top Hat platform including Classroom, Assignment and Test. Low-cost textbooks and free resources are also available to use with the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University\u00a0has an official partnership with Top Hat as a centrally supported active learning technology. What is Top Hat? Top Hat&#8217;s active learning technology helps professors engage students before, during and after class. Top Hat helps you engage students in and out of the classroom through cutting-edge polling software, low-cost interactive content, flexible homework systems,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6475,"featured_media":0,"parent":6981,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"service.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127035"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158302,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127035\/revisions\/158302"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}