Tag: Top Hat

Top Hat Platform Training – 2 Day Event (Day 1)

Whether you teach in-person, online, or hybrid, Top Hat can be used to engage with students and enhance their learning experiences.  Some features include interactive slides, polls, quizzes, and discussion forums.

By moving to an enterprise license and eliminating the need for students to purchase a subscription, now is an excellent time to explore how Top Hat might benefit teaching and learning experiences in your course.

Join us for this 2-day event to see what’s possible!

 

10:00 – 10:45 A.M. – Top Hat Basics: Getting Started with Shashank Santosh, Top Hat
11:00 – 11:45 A.M. – Dynamic Courseware: Using Top Hat in Different Modalities with Peter Kane, Top Hat
12:00 – 1:00 P.M. – Break
1:15 – 2:00 P.M. – Top Hat Assessments: Quizzes & Tests with Sumi Voora, Top Hat
2:15 –3:00 P.M. – 5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Top Hat’s Presentation Tool with Sumi Voora, Top Hat

 

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Faculty Panel, “Enhancing Engagement: From the Classroom to Content” – Top Hat Event

Whether you teach in-person, online, or hybrid, Top Hat can be used to engage with students and enhance their learning experiences.  Some features include interactive slides, polls, quizzes, and discussion forums.

By moving to an enterprise license and eliminating the need for students to purchase a subscription, now is an excellent time to explore how Top Hat might benefit teaching and learning experiences in your course.

Join us for this panel discussion and see what’s possible!

 

1:00 – 2:00 P.M. – Faculty Panel: “Enhancing Engagement: From the Classroom to Content”

Panelists:

    • Tanya Austin, Assistant Director of Career Services, Ivy College of Business
    • Kira Werstein, Associate Teaching Professor, Kinesiology, College of Human Sciences
    • Amy Popillion, Teaching Professor at the Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Facilitator:

    • Shashank Santosh, Top Hat

 

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ISU Online Learning Community (March)

Top Hat has been on campus since 2016 and in the past year alone has been used by more than 21,000 of our students. Whether you teach in-person, online, or hybrid, come see how Top Hat can be used throughout the learning process to increase student learning, reduce DFW rates, and foster inclusivity. Starting in Summer 2023, Top Hat will become even more affordable for students. Join us to hear what’s coming.

The ISU-OLC audience: Faculty, staff, and graduate teaching assistants. Registration is required at least one day prior to this learning community.

If you’d prefer to register outside of the link below, you can call CELT at 515-294-5357 or email celt@iastate.edu (specify event title, date, name, department, and title with your request) if you’d like to register that way.

If you are a person with a disability, please contact CELT via the above phone number or email address to request reasonable accommodations to allow participation in this event.

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Technology Updates (May 12, 2021): Canvas, Webex, Top Hat, WileyPlus, MATLAB Grader, Redshelf, Immediate Access Course Materials, and UDOIT

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As we have in the past, the Learning Technologies Team will be doing system and vendor updates in-between Spring Semester and Summer Session I to minimize impact during instruction.  The updates listed below will occur between Thursday, May 13, and Saturday, May 15, 2021, unless otherwise noted.

Canvas

  • Student Annotation Submissions: Instructors can use an annotated assignment type to upload a file for students to annotate and submit directly in Canvas.
  • Auto-Show Closed Captioning: Allows users to enable captions to show by default in all Canvas videos.
  • User Maintenance Windows: Regular maintenance windows will be implemented for each region, beginning in July 2021. Most maintenance windows will take place sometime between the hours of 12:00 am and 4:00 am local time on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month.

Canvas updates will occur on May 15, 2021. See the Canvas Release announcement for more details.

Webex

Webex updates will be live on May 12, 2021.

Top Hat

  • Superscript, subscript, and symbol support in questions: Instructors can input superscripts, subscripts, and symbols into the text and answer options for Multiple Choice, Matching, Sorting, and Click on Target Questions.
  • Course-based free trials: When a student is enrolling in a Top Hat course, they will be provided with an option to initiate a 14-day free trial at the checkout page. Initiating the trial will grant the student immediate access to the Top Hat course (including any paid Top Hat products being used in the course such as textbooks or remotely monitored exams). Any work that a student completes within the duration of the trial will be recorded under their name in the course Gradebook.
  • Highlighting, note-taking, and reader location memory: These improvements will allow students using Top Hat via a web browser to highlight in three different colors (green, yellow, and red) as well as add notes to text on a Page both fullscreen view and the preview pane. In addition, when a student returns to a Page, it will open at the same location on the Page as when they exited.
  • Partial grading for Matching and Sorting questions: Students will now receive partial grades for Matching and Sorting questions, commensurate with the number of answer options they correctly match or place.

Top Hat has postponed its updates to June 2021. Read more in the May 2021 Upcoming Release Notes.

MATLAB Grader

WileyPLUS

  • WileyPLUS becomes WileyPLUS Legacy and will be deprecated on July 30, 2021, in favor of the new WileyPLUS app.
  • New WileyPLUS app: The new app becomes available on May 12, 2021, and gives instructors the freedom and flexibility to tailor curated content and easily manage their courses in order to engage and motivate students. Explore the WileyPLUS Video Tutorials.

Redshelf/VitalSource

  • Redshelf end of life: Iowa State is transitioning from the use of Redshelf for immediate access to course materials, starting with Summer 2021. Redshelf will be disabled on May 13, 2021.
  • VitalSource and Immediate Access Course Materials: VitalSource is the new platform for immediate access course materials at ISU. VitalSource will be added to Canvas on May 13, 2021. Follow the instructions to add the new Immediate Access Course Materials link to your Canvas course.

UDOIT

  • UDOIT end of life: Due to a lack of support, Iowa State is transitioning from the use of UDOIT for course accessibility checking. UDOIT will be disabled on May 13, 2021.
  • Canvas accessibility tools: The accessibility checker and link validator are supported Canvas tools that can be used on any Canvas-created content.

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Top Hat: Virtual Classroom Features

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Implementation Date: September 30, 2020.

Virtual classroom features will be enabled in Top Hat to provide additional options for remote delivery:

  • Virtual Classroom Streaming — Recreate the experience of your face-to-face class or lab by sharing your webcam or desktop.
  • Lecture Recordings — Give your students an in-class experience even after the lecture ends.
  • Live Chat & Discussions — The in-app chat window lets students raise their hands to ask questions, communicate with each other and engage with the material via text and emojis.
  • Improved Accessibility — Allow students to dial-in to lecture via phone, offer video replays of your class meetings and provide transcripts of lecture recordings.

For more information, please visit the Top Hat Pro web page.

Top Hat: Lifetime access to textbook copies

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Students are now provided with lifetime access to a read-only copy of any textbook they purchase through Top Hat. With this feature, students have continued access to the textbooks they have purchased even after their course has ended. All questions embedded throughout lifetime access copies of textbooks are locked and all assessment material (such as quizzes and test banks) are removed. To learn more about student lifetime textbook access, refer to the Accessing your textbook after a course has ended support article.

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