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Rank & Reveal

Every team weighs the same things — the reveal shows where they clash.

? How to play — 30 seconds
  1. Type one big question, then the things to weigh (2–9). Tip: type them in your order of importance — you can reveal it at the end.
  2. Teams take turns at the computer: drag the items into their order, top = most important, then lock it in.
  3. The next team can’t see the last team’s order — items reshuffle every turn.
  4. The reveal: all rankings merge into the class’s overall ranking — and the item with the biggest disagreement is flagged. Start the discussion there.
🧭 When to use this, and what to say afterwards

Best moment: Opening five minutes to surface what they already believe, or straight after a reading to test what they think mattered.

What it looks like in different courses

  • CCGLRank five causes of the 2008 financial crisis by explanatory power.
  • CCSTRank five interventions by their likely effect on Hong Kong’s emissions.
  • CCHURank five pieces of evidence for who the speaker of this poem is.

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

  1. This team put it first, that team put it last. Before anyone defends it: what were you measuring? Cost, speed, fairness, long-term harm?
  2. So we have two different criteria in the room. Which one does this discipline usually privilege, and why?
  3. What evidence would change your ranking? If nothing would, it is a value rather than a judgement. Both are legitimate, but say which yours is.
  4. One sentence, written down: the criterion I now think matters most, and why.

Do not use this when: Avoid when the items are not genuinely arguable. If one order is obviously right you will get compliance instead of reasoning.

✨ 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 7 one ranking question, then the things to be ranked — put them in YOUR best-to-worst order, because the order you write is the tutor's secret answer key.

Return plain text, ONE ITEM PER LINE, in exactly this format:
First line: the question. Then one item per line, best first.

Two correct example lines:
Which factor did most to end the Bretton Woods system?
The cost of the Vietnam War
The US ending dollar–gold convertibility
European currency speculation
Rising oil prices

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.
- The very first line is the question — everything after it is one item per line.
- Do NOT use the | separator for this game; just one item per line.
- Order matters: line 2 is your number one, line 3 your number two, and so on.
- Pick items that a thoughtful class could genuinely argue about.
- 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.

1 · The question

2 · The things to weigh

    Any areaWhat matters most for success at university

    3 · Who’s ranking

    Teams:
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