Top Hat for Faculty
Getting Started with Top Hat
Faculty Quick Start Guide (or select a popular topic below)
Creating Top Hat Accounts and Courses
- Create your account
- Create your courses
- Navigating your course
- Create a sample student account account (to view what your students will see)
Creating Top Hat Content
Manage Your Top Hat Courses
- Add, remove and manage your students
- Roster sync via Canvas
- Top Hat has been added as an LTI integration with the VCU Canvas learning management system. Instructors need to add the LTI tool to each Canvas course they use with Top Hat.
- To schedule a 1:1 session for assistance connecting your Top Hat course to Canvas (the process has changed and is more complex) please contact our Top Hat Customer Success Manager, Ellie Moore at ellie.moore@tophatmonocle.com.
- Course settings
- About in-class participation
- Take attendance
- Gradebook overview
Training, Resources and Support
- VCU training site - search for keyword "Top Hat"
- Top Hat teaching resources
- Top Hat webinars
- Top Hat events
- For assistance with Top Hat software, training, consultations, or connection to Canvas:
- contact our Customer Success Manager, Erin Vaianisi at erin.vaianisi@tophatmonocle.com
- or email Top Hat support directly at support@tophat.com