Upload and Manage Top Hat Content

To present slides to your students from within Top Hat, you'll need to upload them onto the platform. Once you have content within Top Hat, you can present or assign that content to students. For more information on presenting or assigning Top Hat content, please see the help pages below:

• Present Top Hat Content
• Assign Top Hat Content

Upload Slides

Step 1

To upload a PowerPoint or PDF slides deck into Top Hat, select the Create button at the upper-left side of the course content page, and select Upload Slides from the second column in the menu that appears.

Step 2

Drag and drop the .ppt or .pdf file to upload into the window that appears, or select the click to browse your computer link in the window to browse your computer for the file.

Step 3

Once selected, wait for the Uploading slides progress bar to fill and then select Done. Your slides will take a few moments to process before appearing in the content tree to the left of the course main page.

Download Slides

Step 1

To download a set of slides from your Top Hat course (e.g. a slide deck you uploaded previously), select the file name of the slideshow in the content tree.

Step 2

Choose Download PPT above the Preview Pane.

Re-upload Slides

Step 1

To re-upload a set of slides, click Re-upload slides above the Preview Pane.

Step 2

You will be presented with options to keep any embedded questions or discussions in the same order amongst the re-uploaded slides, or to push them all to the end of the slideshow for redistribution later.

Step 3

Once you select either option, you will be presented with the same file upload window from which you can drag and drop, or browse for the slideshow file that you wish to swap in.

Embed Questions and Discussions

Step 1

To embed questions and/or discussions between your slides, select the Create button at the upper-left side of the course content page.

Step 2

Choose Question and/or Discussion from the first column in the menu that appears.

Step 3

Proceed with creating the question(s) and/or discussion(s) by filling in the fields in the creation window.

Step 4

Choose Save

Step 5

Once you've saved your content, you can drag and drop your questions into your desired folder and order.

Add Blank Slides and Whiteboards

Step 1

If you wish to add a blank slide for the instructor to annotate amongst the slides in your deck, select the Create button at the upper-left sides of the course content page.

Step 2

Select Whiteboard Sketch from the second column in the menu that appears.

Step 3

You will see the blank slides appear amongst the other slides in your deck, which can be annotated when presented.

Step 4

When your slides are open in Presenter Mode, you can annotate them by choosing the pen icon in the center of the control bar that appears at the bottom of the screen.

Step 5

Once the annotation tool is selected, selecting the pen-on-paper icon will display different color choices. The stacked lines icon will provide options for different line thicknesses.

Preview Content

Whenever you have a slide or interactive element highlighted in the content tree, a preview of that item will be shown in the pane on the right side of the course content page.

Rearrange Existing Content

The simplest way to rearrange your slides and/or the interactive elements between them is to drag and drop them into place within the content tree. This method can be used to move questions and discussions between slides, rearrange slides within a deck, or move slides between decks.

Copy Content

Step 1

To duplicate slides and/or interactive elements, check the corresponding box in the content tree.

Step 2

Select Copy at the top of the tree.

Delete Content

Step 1

Select the item to remove a slide and/or interactive element entirely from the content tree.

Step 2

Select Delete above the Preview Pane. If you wish to remove multiple items at a time, check them off and select Delete at the top of the tree.

Rename Content

If you need to rename an individual slide or slide deck file, select that item in the content tree and choose Rename above the Preview Pane.

Edit Slides

Step 1

Select the slideshow file (or an individual slide) in the content tree.

Step 2

Choose Edit in PowerPoint on the right side of the Preview Pane. This will open the slideshow in Microsoft Office PowerPoint Online.

Step 3

Your slides can now be edited using the full functionality of PowerPoint. This works for slideshows uploaded to Top Hat in the ".pptx" file format. If you want to edit a set of slides in a different file format, we recommend converting the original file to ".pptx" and re-uploading it to Top Hat.

Step 4

Once you have completed the edits to your slides, select the Saved to Top Hat drop-down in the upper center section of the window.

Step 5

Select Save and return to... in the window that appears.

Step 6

Once changes to a slide have been processed, that slide will re-appear in the content tree. If needed, you can download a copy of your edited slides once the updated deck has been fully synced back to Top Hat.

Support

If you have any questions or concerns about Top Hat, please reach out to the UCATT Instructional Technology team at intech@arizona.edu, or Top Hat's support team at support@tophat.com.

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