Case Study: Madisonville Community College Improves Online Course Grades with Top Hat

This English Professor Improved Grades in an Online Course

Madisonville Community College English professor Brooke Archila was struggling to improve the learning experience in her online classes. Students found the LMS cumbersome, weren’t completing readings, and were turning in weaker essays and lower grades, so she needed a simpler way to deliver course content and assessments. Top Hat helped her streamline materials and engagement in one place.

Using Top Hat’s all-in-one active learning platform and interactive textbook, Archila embedded quizzes, discussion questions, videos, and readings directly into her course. The results were strong: homework reading and completion reached 85%, passing rates increased by 12%, and the number of students earning a B or higher rose by 13%. Top Hat also helped improve communication and feedback in the online classroom.

Madisonville Community College

Brooke Archila

Associate Professor