Creating Top Hat Accounts and Courses

• Create your account
• Create your courses
• Navigating your course 
• Create a sample student account (to view what your students will see)

Creating Top Hat Content

• Create Content
• Copy content from another course

• Content Types:
  • Questions
  • Discussions
  • Slides
  • Files
  • Pages
  • Quizzes

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 Enterprise Content Lead, Susie Liebschner at susie.liebschner@tophatmonocle.com.
• Course settings
• About in-class participation
• Take attendance
• Gradebook overview and/or Exporting the gradebook

Training, Resources and Support

• VCU training site - search for keyword "Top Hat"
• Top Hat teaching resources
• Top Hat webinars
  • On-demand webinars
• Top Hat events
• For assistance with Top Hat software, training, consultations, or connection to Canvas:
  • contact our Top Hat Enterprise Content Lead, Susie Liebschner at susie.liebschner@tophatmonocle.com.
  • or email Top Hat support directly at support@tophat.com