Top Hat

• Educator Quick Start Guide
• Educator FAQs
• Educator Knowledge Base 
• Toolkits + How to Guides
• eBooks, guides, and white papers
• Top Hat blog for higher education

1. Go to tophat.com.
2. Create Your Account in the upper-right corner.
3. Click I’m a Educator.
4. Click Sign-up.
5. Search for University at Buffalo SUNY.
   Click Log in with school account.
6. Enter your UBITName and password.
7. Click Sign up as a Professor under I'd like to create a new account.
8. Enter your first and last names.
9. Click Get started.

• Adding Teaching Assistants & Co-Educators
• Creating a test ‘Student View’ Account
• Managing account information and settings

• Creating a Course or Copying Content
• Adding and Managing Students
• Managing your course settings
• Top Hat Question Builder
• Creating Discussions
• Uploading and Managing Slides
• Top Hat Pages
• Top Hat Tests & Assessments
• Top Hat Gradebook

• AI-Powered Lecture Questions 
• AI-Powered Questions in Pages 
• AI-Powered Study Assistant for Students

Content Solutions in Top Hat include authored textbooks complete with teaching resources, OpenStax content that is interactive, custom textbooks and content designed for your course.

• Top Hat Textbooks are authored by experts in their field and produced by Top Hat’s editorial team. These teaching resources can be personalized for your course.
• OpenStax content is optimized for Top Hat’s dynamic courseware and can be personalize for your course. Top Hat can help to optimize any OER material for your course (courses must meet criteria to qualify). 
• Top Hat Pages allows instructors to create and edit original, interactive and personalized content for your students.

You can use your UBITName credentials to access your Top Hat account. The instructions will vary slightly depending on whether or not you are brand new to Top Hat or if you've previously created a Top Hat account.

Top Hat has created a document to help instructors create new accounts.

1. Go to tophat.com using your computer (note: you must use a web browser; you cannot use a mobile app).
2. Click the Login link in the top-right corner of the page.
   
3. You may see University at Buffalo SUNY in the School field. If not, begin typing and click the University at Buffalo SUNY link from the drop-down list.
   
4. Click Log in with school account.
   
5. Use your UBITName and password to log in.

The Top Hat Educator Playlist features bite-sized videos to help master the fundamentals and learn how other educators are implementing Top Hat to drive engagement before, during and after class.

If you have 5-10 minutes…

• Top Hat Question Types Overview 
• Creating Interactive Discussions 
• Upload and Edit Slides 
• Setting up & taking attendance
•  Assigning Content (as homework or review) 
• Organizing your Gradebook 

If you have 20-30 minutes…

• Introduction to Top Hat
  
• Building Dynamic Content with Top Hat Pages
• Teaching with Insight: The Top Hat Gradebook 
• Top Hat’s Five Pillars of Dynamic Courseware & Learning Design 

Top Hat maintains a Knowledge Base with product information and best practices.

Instructors and students can reach out to Top Hat’s dedicated support team. 

• Live chat in Top Hat’s platform: Located next to your name, in the top-right corner of your screen when in Top Hat.
• Phone: 1-888-663-5491, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Email: support@tophat.com
• Top Hat’s dedicated representatives for UB:
  • Sumi Voora
    sumi.voora@tophat.com
  • Susie Liebschner
    susie.liebschner@tophat.com
• Contact Form: https://success.tophat.com/contact