--- description: Detailed reviews on Top Hat based on features, pricing, usability, and ratings. Get a quick overview advantages and disadvantages. Compare Top Hat with similar products. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/getapp/og_logo-94fd2a03a6c7a0e54fc0c9e21a1c0ce9.png title: Top Hat Reviews, Prices & Ratings | GetApp Canada 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Higher Education Software](/directory/31/academic/software) > [Top Hat](/software/114111/top-hat) # Top Hat Canonical: https://www.getapp.ca/software/114111/top-hat Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.getapp.ca/software/114111/top-hat?page=2) > Top Hat is an app designed to help college professors and lecturers engage students and build comprehension before, during \& after class. The software offers solutions for delivering interactive courses, customizing digital textbooks, assigning homework, and securely administering tests. > > Verdict: Rated **3.8/5** by 41 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Key benefits of Top Hat • Top Hat Classroom provides users with tools for delivering interactive courses to engage students, including attendance tracking through students' devices, embedded questions in presentations, real-time polls, and response data visualization. • With Top Hat Textbook, users can create custom digital textbooks for their students, utilizing videos, animations, and questions interspersed within content to engage learners. • Top Hat Assignment enables the assignment of homework tasks to individual students or groups, with options for importing existing materials, auto-grading of answers, and real-time feedback. • Assessments can be managed and securely administered through students' own devices with Top Hat Test, which uses proprietary behavioral algorithms to detect cheating and automatically lock out students. • Top Hat automates a range of common repetitive tasks, such as attendance taking and test grading, allowing users to focus their attention on important activities. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **3.8/5** | 41 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 2.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 60% | (6/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Top Hat - **Location**: Toronto, Canada - **Founded**: 2009 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$35.00 - **Pricing model**: Other (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: Top Hat is free for professors. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - Academic/Education - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Assessment Management - Assignment Management - Asynchronous Learning - Attendance Management - Attendance Tracking Software - Blended Learning - Built-in Course Authoring - Classroom Management Software - Communication Management - Content Management System (CMS) Software - Course Authoring Software - Course Management - Course Tracking - Curriculum Management - Customizable Questions - Customizable Templates - Data Analysis Tools ## Integrations (1 total) - Canvas ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base Software - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Higher Education Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/31/academic/software) ## Related Categories - [Higher Education Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/31/academic/software) - [Assessment Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/1105/assessment/software) - [Polling Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/1061/polling/software) - [Student Engagement Platform Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/1683/student-engagement-platform/software) - [Virtual Classroom Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/1723/virtual-classroom/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[SAP SuccessFactors HCM](https://www.getapp.ca/software/9965/successfactors-perform-and-reward) — 4.0/5 (289 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Top Hat for students" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *April 21, 2019* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: I liked that it was easy to use and was accessible to all without the need for a laptop or computer. > > **Cons**: The thing I liked least about this is that the slide would change according to the teacher changing their own slide, it made it difficult to catch up if there was ever a need to do so. > > Overall I really like the ease of top hat. ----- ### "Testing my students" — 4.0/5 > **Graham** | *January 31, 2021* | Higher Education Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: This software has made giving in class quizzes very easy. I use it every semester and have had a great experience with administering the quizzes and grading them. It has made it easy to go over material and to provide immediate feedback. > > **Cons**: I would like them to add a feature that allows for grading of word answers. I have to look at all the different spellings of a word. It would be nice to have a wild card or contains option for answers > > I could not run in class quizzes without this software. It has made this part of the course easy to administer. ----- ### "Not good" — 2.0/5 > **Tess** | *September 8, 2019* | E-Learning | Recommendation rating: 2.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy to use in class, and the overall accessibility is good. > > **Cons**: SO MANY TYPOS AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. "Loose" instead of "lose"? "Wenn" instead of "when"? "Less" instead of "fewer"?? Incomplete sentences, and many many many more issues ranging from awkward phrasing, to homophone misuse, to use of "words" that are not even a part of the English language (such as my earlier example, "wenn" was literally in this published educational textbook. I expect literally the bare minimum (correct English grammar and spelling) from an expensive, high level, educational publication, and I couldn't even get that. > > The software itself is a very good idea. Cannot get over the fact that it does not explain things in-depth very well, and the amount of blatant errors is astounding. ----- ### "Top Hat "On Top" of my List" — 5.0/5 > **Michael Vincent** | *June 11, 2021* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Top Hat is an excellent software\! I could easily give quizzes to my learners and give ratings to them easily. It is very user-friendly and bery accessible to learners for its mobile app feature. > > **Cons**: Going back to view questions which were answered correctly and incorrectly were quite difficult. I wish this app would have commands like bookmarking and highlighting notes on it. > > Top Hat is a great application for teachers in managing quizzes. It is a user-friendly app for learners where in they can go through their lessons with ease. ----- ### "Great Quiz Tool" — 4.0/5 > **Kyler** | *November 11, 2019* | Higher Education Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: Top Hat is very interactive application that the audience can easy connect to with any device and is simple for them to use. > > **Cons**: Top Hat does not get very customizable with what you may or may not want to do with it. Otherwise not many complaints. > > Very fast and fun audience response tool to use in a classroom setting. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.getapp.ca/software/114111/top-hat?page=2) ## Links - [View on GetApp](https://www.getapp.ca/software/114111/top-hat) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-MX | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | ----- ## Structured Data