It drops into a constitutional-law, political-science, or civics course as a graded spine. Students are seated on topic committees, deliberate real provisions, ratify committee reports on the floor, and write a capstone Federalist paper — all captured in one place, so you grade from a complete record instead of memory.
Nonpartisan by design. Students debate the actual, current U.S. Constitution — not this site’s proposed rewrite. The exercise takes no political position: every committee argues all three outcomes, and a paper defending a provision is graded exactly like one attacking it. The skill being taught is constitutional reasoning from every side, like moot court or a model legislature.
Private and free. No names, no emails, no accounts — students join with a class code and a handle they invent. There is nothing to breach and nothing to sell, and students are never asked for money.
Two ways in. Read the full guide to get your department’s sign-off, or — if you already have your instructor passphrase — set up a convention now.
Everything needed to run it and to get it approved: the nonpartisan design, the privacy model, the two difficulty levels, committees and assignment, the grading rubric and gradebook, and a week-by-week facilitation plan. Printable / save-as-PDF to forward to your chair or dean.
Read / print the guide→ Have your passphrase?Set it up once in a few minutes — pick your committees, difficulty, and how delegates are assigned — then share a class code with your students. You get a private link to run the whole convention from one dashboard. Teaching several periods? Create one class per period — there’s no limit, and they all stack into one list that follows your sign-in from any device.
Set up your class→