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.
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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 and no passwords. We do record page views and the actions students take on the site, tied to an anonymous session, to run and improve it; see the privacy policy. 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 it answers a particular argument on the page, written by another student or, on some docket cases, a starter argument written by our editorial team. 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.
Cases of your own
Write the dispute your syllabus is built around and assign it exactly like a docket case. A case you write is private to your classes: it never appears on the public docket, in search or in the random draw.
Where the cases come from
Every case on the public docket links to the public court record through CourtListener, so a student can check our account against the filing rather than taking it on trust. Docket cases are written by our editorial team, and if a summary misstates the record we want to hear about it. A case you write yourself is your own, not our editorial team's.
How the platform works