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Courtroom

Put a person, a decision or an idea on trial. Two sides, real exhibits, and a jury that delivers the verdict.

? How to play — 30 seconds
  1. Set the case and the charge (or, in Debate mode, the motion), then name the two sides and prepare each side’s exhibits.
  2. Run the trial phase by phase — Opening → Evidence → Closing → Verdict — timing each speech and revealing exhibits on the big screen. Shout Objection! whenever it’s earned.
  3. At the end, the jury votes. Tap Deliver the verdict — the gavel falls and the ruling is stamped for the whole room to see.
  4. Great for mock trials of historical figures or literary characters, ethical dilemmas, and “is this claim guilty as charged?” science debates.
🧭 When to use this, and what to say afterwards

Best moment: A whole tutorial built on one contested question. Needs 25 minutes or more, and rewards preparation.

What it looks like in different courses

  • CCHUPut an interpretation on trial: does the evidence support this reading?
  • CCSTPut a claim on trial: is this study strong enough to act on?
  • CCGLPut a policy on trial: did it do more good than harm?

Now ask them — the part that turns the game into learning

  1. Jury: what was the one piece of evidence that actually moved you?
  2. Losing side: what was the strongest point made against you?
  3. Was the verdict about the evidence, or about who spoke better? Be honest, because that distinction is the lesson.

Do not use this when: Never put a real group of people on trial, particularly one that students in the room belong to. Try decisions, claims, interpretations and policies instead.

✨ Make these with AI — no typing, paste them straight in
  1. Copy the prompt below.
  2. Open any AI chat you already use, upload your slides / reading / handout, and paste the prompt.
  3. Copy the AI's whole reply and paste it in the box underneath. Your builder fills itself — then edit anything you like.
You are helping a university tutor turn course material into a classroom game.

I am uploading my course material (slides, reading or handout). Use ONLY that material and write 8 pieces of evidence for a trial or debate drawn from the material — each one belonging to side 1 or side 2, with a title and the line the tutor reads when it is put on screen.

Return plain text, ONE ITEM PER LINE, in exactly this format:
Side (1 or 2) | Exhibit title | What it shows

Two correct example lines:
1 | The 1971 memo | Written by the minister himself, three weeks before the decision he later denied making.
2 | The economists’ letter | Forty-two signatories warned the same policy would work — and it did, for a decade.

Rules:
- Separate the fields with the vertical bar | and nothing else.
- One item per line. No numbering, no bullets, no headings, no commentary.
- Never use a line break inside an item.
- Keep every field short enough to read from the back of a lecture room.
- Base every item on my uploaded material, not on general knowledge.
- Give both sides roughly the same number of exhibits, so the contest is fair.
- Side 1 argues the case, side 2 answers it.
- The description is read aloud, so keep it to one or two sentences.
- Put the whole answer in ONE code block so I can copy it in one click.

⚠ Before you upload anything, stop and decide what is safe to send.Never upload student IDs, student numbers, grades, marks, results, or anything that could identify a student — and never paste them into the boxes below either. Remember that what you upload may not be yours to give away: publishers' readings, textbook chapters, exam papers, colleagues' slides and material you licensed rather than wrote are usually someone else's property. Many free AI tiers keep what you send and may train on it, so read that tool's own terms first. Protect yourself — when in doubt, upload your own summary or notes instead of the original file.

The case file

Exhibits for this side

Exhibits for this side