Top Hat Test offers secure testing from students' devices

Published September 3, 2019

by Grace Golabek

Thanks to Top Hat Test, instructors can securely administer quizzes, tests, midterms, and final exams electronically, on students’ own devices, and immediately see the auto-graded results.

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UBIT Student Ambassador Grace Golabek.

Grace Golabek (UB student, Class of 2019) is a Business major with a minor in Mandarin Chinese. After graduating from UB, she hopes to attend law school, pursue a career as a civil rights attorney, and revive the trend of pink business suits. A Hamburg, NY native, Grace enjoys conspiracy theories and writing.

Top Hat Test is the newest feature of Top Hat, the classroom response software over 13,000 UB students are using in classes today.

As of August 2019, Top Hat Test is included in Top Hat Classroom at no extra charge.

Readily available exam content

Top Hat offers a Marketplace with free and paid question packs containing thousands of available questions. These questions packs address topics from all areas of study, and include several interactive question types, which can be inserted into Top Hat quizzes or tests.   

Ensuring academic integrity

Although online testing provides instructors with many benefits, academic integrity is still a concern.

According to Top Hat, Top Hat Test ensures academic integrity “by monitoring behavioral patterns and offering lock-out capabilities.” Professors are shown which students have engaged in suspicious activity, and can review the activity and can choose whether or not to continue allowing that student to access the test.

Get more information

If you are an instructor and would like more information about Top Hat, Top Hat offers one-on-one trainings and introduction sessions.

Email Brad Lindsay from Top Hat at brad.lindsay@tophat.com or schedule a call via his calendar at https://www.meetme.so/tophatBrad.  

Learn more about Top Hat at UB

For help with other classroom technology at UB, contact the UBIT Help Center. Visit buffalo.edu/ubit/help, call 716-645-3542, or visit one of our walk-up locations on North or South Campus.