The most common use of a Top Hat course is within the classroom, where the audience is known. However, instructors and staff may also wish to use the response system when the audience is unknown. For example, instructors and staff can use Top Hat questions to poll the audience of a conference.

In order to do so, the Top Hat course must be open to an anonymous audience. Currently, only Top Hat Support can create an open course. Please follow the instructions below.

1. Create a new course in your Top Hat account as usual.
2. Contact Top Hat Support at support@tophat.com. Provide Top Hat Support with the following:
   • your lastname.# username.
   • the course code of the course you want to have made anonymous, located directly after "e/" in the course URL.
     For example, if the course URL is "https://app.tophat.com/e/762297", the course code is "762297".
3. Top Hat support will send you a confirmation once it is ready.
4. Build your Top Hat questions and use Top Hat as usual.