Top Hat Tournaments allows instructors to add fast-paced low-stakes competitions to the classroom setting. Tournaments uses your questions in round-based competition where students are rewarded for correctness and speed. Unique features of Top Hat Tournaments include:
- Round-based competitions using the instructor’s own questions.
- Students awarded points based on correct answers and time taken to answer.
- Leaderboard updates displaying the top ten students in the tournament.
- Breakdown of student answers for the instructor.
- Student performance in Top Hat Tournaments is not graded.
- Top Hat Tournaments is currently in beta testing. (4/2019)
Tournaments Use Cases
Top Hat Tournaments works great for small group setting and review sessions. Tournaments motivates students with light competition and awards them with points for performance as well as immediate feedback on their understanding of the material, creating an engaging, fun environment for both student and instructor to assess understanding.
Tournaments may not be suitable for teaching new knowledge, or activities where student performance is graded.
Tournaments may not be suitable for large group lectures.
Get Started with Tournaments
To create a Top Hat Tournament, log in to your UW Madison Top Hat Account and create or organize your questions for the tournament (see Additional Resources for more on Top Hat use and creating questions).
With your questions created, click the create button in the upper-left and select Tournament.