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This article has been designed to walk Oregon State University educators through getting their Top Hat courses set up to ensure that the integration with Canvas is established correctly. For information on preparing your course content, please see here: Educator: Oregon State University Quick Start Guide
- Top Hat Course Creation
- Pairing Top Hat to Canvas
- Add Top Hat Navigation
Note - Linking Your Top Hat Account ito Your Oregon State University Account
You can now use your Oregon State University login 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 at any point in the past.
If you are new to Top Hat....
1. Using your computer, navigate to tophat.com and click where it says "SIGNUP" in the upper right hand corner.
2. Search for your school from the drop-down menu that will appear, select Oregon State University, and then click "Login with school account."
3. Sign in with your Oregon State University credentials.
4. Create a new Top Hat Educator account.
5. You will be prompted to fill in some information, and to create your first course in Top Hat.
Email Address Already in Use - If you are receiving an error message indicating that your email address is already in use, it is a symptom of there already being a Top Hat account created with the email address you are inputting. Please contact support at support@tophat.com.
6. Your initial course will be created during the registration process. After entering your university and account details, you will be prompted to create your first course.
8. Now you're reading to sync to your course! For instructions on this process please see here: Pairing Top Hat to Canvas
If you have previously created a Top Hat account...
1. Using your computer, navigate to tophat.com and click where it says "LOGIN" in the upper right hand corner.
4. After you log in on the university login page you will automatically be taken back to Top Hat where you will want to click the "Log in" button associated with "Use existing account."
5. Create a Top Hat course for pairing with your Canvas course. Enter the necessary course information, OR if you have previously created your Top Hat course, click "Enter" on that course's tile.
The next step in getting your students enrolled in your Top Hat course is to setup the sync between Top Hat and Canvas so the two systems can communicate with each other, syncing grades and class roster information between them. This will also allow you to send an invite to students, which will include instructions on how to set up their account.
The integration is designed to ease student registration and on-boarding, and to allow educators to easily send grades from Top Hat into Canvas.
Before you proceed, please ensure you have:
- created a Top Hat account and course(s)
- published (made public/available) your Canvas course(s)
- set up and published the Top Hat Registration Assignment
If you have co-instructors or teaching assistants for this course, whoever performs the initial sync will be the only person able to sync Top Hat to Canvas. Ensure you designate one instructor as the person who will facilitate the authentication and manage the syncing of grades throughout the semester.
If you’re not already logged in, go to tophat.com and log in. Enter the course that you would like to sync to your Canvas Course. From your Top Hat course page, click on your name in the upper right hand corner and select "Course Settings." Select "LMS SET UP & SYNC" tab from the top menu and click on the blue "Enable LMS sync" button.
In the window that appears, click the blue "Authorize Top Hat with your LMS" button to give Top Hat permission to authenticate with Canvas.
Log in to Canvas on the screen provided (note: if you just completed step 2, you may not be provided with this screen and will be logged in automatically).
Once your Top Hat account has been successfully authenticated with your Canvas account you will be provided with a list of the Canvas courses in which you are enrolled as an instructor. If you do not see the intended course in the list, ensure that you are enrolled in the Canvas course as the instructor and that you have published (made public/available) your course in Canvas. Select the course and then click the blue "Next" button.
The next window you will be provided with will allow you to select which sections you would like to sync to this particular Top Hat course. Simply place a checkmark in the box next to each section that you would like enrolled in this Top Hat course and then click "Connect."
If you are not teaching a combined or cross-listed course, simply click the top box and click "Connect."
If you are not teaching a combined or cross-listed course, simply click the top box and click "Connect."
If you are using Top Hat and teaching multiple courses with corresponding sections you will want to follow the above steps to authenticate each of your Top Hat courses with its corresponding Canvas sections. See the guide on Advanced Canvas Integration with Section Support (Beta) for more information.
When your Canvas course roster has been imported into Top Hat you will be provided with the following message and clicking the blue "Go to Student Manager" button will take you to your Top Hat course's student manager.
In your course's student manager you will see a list of all of the students who have been added from Canvas to your Top Hat course. Students with an existing Top Hat account will be automatically enrolled in your Top Hat course and can be identified by "Enrolled" in the Enrollment column.
If a student does not yet have a Top Hat account associated with their email address you will want to invite them to create an account and join your Top Hat course. To do so, simply click where it says "All Students" and then select "Pending" to show only the students who have not yet enrolled in your Top Hat course. Click in the box to the left of the status header to place a checkmark in it to select all the students on your pending list, and click on "Invite Selected." These actions will resend the email invitation to the appropriate students so long as they have not received an email invitation in the past 24 hours, and to a maximum of 10 invitations total.
If a student does not yet have a Top Hat account associated with their email address you will want to invite them to create an account and join your Top Hat course. To do so, simply click where it says "All Students" and then select "Pending" to show only the students who have not yet enrolled in your Top Hat course. Click in the box to the left of the status header to place a checkmark in it to select all the students on your pending list, and click on "Invite Selected." These actions will resend the email invitation to the appropriate students so long as they have not received an email invitation in the past 24 hours, and to a maximum of 10 invitations total.
It’s always good practice to also post an announcement on Canvas and tell your students to click on the Top Hat link in their Canvas course to ensure their accounts are linked, in the event they accidentally deleted this invite email.
For information on preparing your course content, please see here: Educator: Oregon State University Quick Start Guide
1. In your Canvas course, click on "Settings."
2. Click where it says "Navigation" in the settings menu.
3. Scroll to the bottom of your navigation screen and enable the Top Hat navigation.
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