Assign a real case. See who actually read it.
Your students read the actual court record, hear the strongest argument on each side, and cast a verdict of their own. Before they can submit it they write why, and answer the strongest argument against them. You get that back as a report: who did it, what they decided, whose mind changed, and the reasoning behind each one.
Two ways to run it
Start with the first. The second is worth it once the first has gone well.
A one-off link
Open a case, press Assign, and post the link in your LMS or read the code off a slide. Students type a first name and start reading. No accounts, no roster, nothing to configure. Best for trying it once, or for a guest session.
A class
Students join once with a code and stay. Everything you post afterwards appears for them without another link, and everyone enrolled shows in your results from the moment you assign, including the ones who have not started. Best when you are running this every week.
Your students do not need accounts
On a one-off link they enter a first name and nothing else. We collect no student email addresses, no passwords, and no personal details. You are the only person who sees the name they typed, and on the public platform they appear as a juror number like J-7761.
If you set up a class, students sign in so their work follows them between assignments. That is a choice you make, not a requirement.
What you get back
The reasoning, not just the vote
Before a student can submit, they write why they voted as they did, then answer the strongest argument on the other side. That second part is the one nobody can produce without having read it, because the argument only exists in the first place because another student wrote it. Their opening position, their final position and both pieces of writing arrive in one report.
Who did it
A list of names against their verdict, whether they changed their mind, how many arguments they wrote and how many people they persuaded. Exports to CSV for your gradebook.
Something to open class with
A view built for the projector: where your room landed against everyone else on the platform, and the strongest argument from each side written by your own students, attributed by name and long enough to read aloud.
Where the cases come from
Every case links to the public court record through CourtListener, so a student can check our account against the filing rather than taking it on trust. Cases are written by our editorial team, and if a summary misstates the record we want to hear about it.
How the platform works