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Assign a fair controlled comparison, collect evidence instead of screenshots alone, and assess reasoning rather than simulated luck. Customize your brief for Google Classroom or Canvas, or print student pages.
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Configure course settings, simulation tools, target metrics, and deliverables below. Formats a complete assignment brief ready to paste into Canvas, Google Classroom, or your syllabus.
Instant student assignment links
When distributing assignments via Canvas or Google Classroom, include the direct 1-click scenario URL. Every simulator automatically loads with the assigned starting cash, location, and challenge parameters so students start immediately without manual setup mistakes.
Teacher setup
Suggested learning objective: Students will compare a baseline with one controlled business decision, use numerical and stakeholder evidence to explain the difference, and recommend a responsible next test while acknowledging the model's limits.
Need a ready-made question? Assign one of the 18 business simulation scenario cards, each with a fictional context, measurable decision, fair-test controls, evidence targets, and a responsible constraint.
Use one teacher-selected input and two metrics. Students predict, record a baseline, make one change, rerun, and write a four-sentence conclusion.
Submit: completed evidence record plus claim, evidence, tradeoff, and next step.
Pairs select one testable input, complete a baseline and two comparison runs, check whether the pattern repeats, and challenge an alternative explanation.
Submit: evidence table and a 200–300 word recommendation.
Teams assign operator, analyst, recorder, and reviewer roles; test two competing strategies; then present a decision with stakeholder and implementation safeguards.
Submit: decision brief, evidence appendix, peer challenge, and next-test plan.
Teachers may copy and paste this text directly into Google Classroom, Canvas, Blackboard, or a printed handout.
Assignment: Evidence-Based Business Simulation Decision
Scenario: You are managing a simulated business. Your goal is not simply to get the highest score on one lucky run, but to run a fair, controlled test and explain why your decision helped or hurt the business.
Instructions:
Submission: Turn in your completed evidence table and a written recommendation (or present your findings in a 3-minute oral defense).
Printable student page 1
Decision question:
Pre-run prediction & hypothesis:
Controlled run comparison table:
| Metric name & unit | Baseline value | Test run value | Difference (Δ / %) |
|---|---|---|---|
The one input changed and the important inputs held constant:
Printable student page 2
Claim and strongest supporting evidence:
Alternative explanation or evidence that weakens the claim:
Tradeoff, affected stakeholder, and responsible guardrail:
What this model omits or cannot establish about a real business:
Recommendation and one controlled next test:
Result that would make me revise the recommendation:
Include a decision question, prediction, baseline, one controlled change, comparable results, evidence-based explanation, tradeoff, model limitation, responsible guardrail, and next test.
Choose a 20-minute individual task, a 50-minute paired investigation, or a multi-session team brief. Keep the same evidence and reasoning expectations while adjusting the number of runs and the submission length.
Grade question quality, controlled comparison, evidence, reasoning, responsible limits, and reflection. Do not grade primarily on the highest simulated profit.
Yes. Project one simulation, demonstrate two runs, or distribute printed results. Students can still compare evidence and write independent recommendations.
Yes. Copy the student brief into a learning platform and adapt the timing, simulator, submission format, and course-specific criteria for classroom use.
Choose a course activity from the lesson-plan directory, match its objective and evidence with the learning objectives alignment guide and printable matrix, plan device and response options with the accessible classroom guide, assign a question from the scenario-card bank, teach the baseline, changed-run, repeat, and boundary process with the controlled experiment test plan, select a simulator and worksheet from the teacher guide, turn longer investigations into a structured final product with the printable business simulation report template, assess with the 16-point rubric, and use the debrief question bank after submissions.