Live teaching platform · For business and law schools
Where the thinking
happens
Live, interactive activities where students decide, defend, and walk out having actually done the thinking.
In the room and in their own time: one join code, no student accounts.
A student joining a class? Enter your join code
The Cash Crunch
Where is the cash actually trapped?
The lecture is comfortable.
It’s also 
forgettable.
Students don’t learn much by watching. They learn by deciding, defending a position, and being challenged on it.
Jotter helps academics make that the standard, not the exception.
Every student gets a voice, even the quiet ones
In a lecture, a confident few answer and everyone else hides. Jotter flips that: every student commits to a position, and anyone can ask a question anonymously, so the honest questions finally get asked.
Anonymous participation narrows the gap between the students who arrive confident and the students who don’t. The whole room commits, not just the students who were taught to put their hands up.
The whole cohort
Built for every kind of student
Full-time undergraduates in a lecture hall
Apprentices joining after a shift
An MBA cohort in the evening
Exchange students on their own devices
Same join code, same activity, same voice in the room: no accounts, no downloads, nothing for any student to buy.
Most teaching tools quietly assume one kind of student. Jotter assumes a modern cohort.
The platform
One place, two rooms
Somewhere to read around a problem, and somewhere to work it through.
The Library
Every activity, ready to run: a whole faculty’s worth across business and law, shelved and searchable.
The Study
Your module’s home for the term. The activities, the schedule, the deadlines, the handbook, your announcements: everything a student needs, behind one join code. It’s where the session runs live, and where students come back to between classes.
How it works
Five moves, one activity
Jotter Live
Ask the room. Watch it answer.
Put a question on the projector and every phone in the room becomes a voting card. Multiple choice builds into live bars. A word cloud grows as the room types. A 1–10 scale shows you exactly how confident they really are. An open question becomes a wall of answers to teach from.
Run a prepared deck (warm-up, wrap-up, quick pulse) or ask the question that just occurred to you, mid-class, in seconds. Students answer from the study page they’re already on: no second app, no new code, nothing to install.
Prepared or spontaneous
Start from a ready-made deck, or fire an ad-hoc question the moment the room needs one.
Four ways to answer
Live bars, word clouds, confidence scales, open walls.
Built for the projector
Join code writ large, results animating as they land.
Anonymous, like everything else
Students commit honestly because nobody’s watching them individually.
What you get
Everything around the teaching
Every activity arrives complete, so prep is choosing, not building.
Session flow & timings
The shape of the room: hook, groups, plenary, wrap.
Marked in real time
Instant feedback as students respond, with exemplar answers to compare against.
Student-facing materials
The real data, built for the screen.
Live dashboard
See every group in real time, steer the room. A “where the room is struggling” strip surfaces the questions the cohort is getting wrong, worst first.
The module handbook, without the wrestling
Build it in Jotter or upload the one you have: Word, PDF, whatever it is. Your schedule and deadlines flow in from the study, it takes your branding, and it publishes to students at a link that’s always current. Edit freely; students only see what you choose to publish.
A schedule students actually use
Sessions, locations, join-online links and assessment deadlines, on every student’s study page, with one-tap add-to-calendar. “When’s it due?” answers itself.
Student voice, every session
Students rate activities and ask questions as they happen, not in a survey at the end of term. Teaching adjusts in week 3, not next year.
Self-study
The thinking doesn’t stop when the room empties.
Every activity in a study works in a student’s own time too: same join code, same device, no login. Jotter keeps their place: what’s completed, what’s in progress, where to pick up next.
Their own notes, their own device
A private notes drawer on every activity, downloadable as one file when revision comes. Never uploaded, never seen by anyone else.
Explain this differently
Stuck on a concept at 11pm? A built-in study helper re-explains the section in a different way: an analogy, a plainer route through. It coaches; it never hands over the answer to a marked question.
Deadlines where students look
The study page and their calendar, not a buried email.
Activities across business and law
ready-to-run activities, across every subject in business and law: built, marked and ready to run.
Simulations
Simulations, seminar-sized
The big simulation platforms are built for the capstone: multi-week, team-based, licensed per student. Brilliant when the module justifies it. Most weeks, it doesn’t.
Jotter runs the simulation moments that fit inside a seminar. Students face a situation, commit to a decision, see how the room split, then live with the consequences. Three or four rounds, forty minutes, and the debrief happens while the choices are still warm.
Built around your module
Your sector, your case, your numbers. Requested by you, ready in days rather than a procurement cycle.
Nothing for students to buy
No seat licences, no accounts, no app. A join code and they’re in.
The room stays together
The cohort votes, the majority sets the path, and you can override it live: “let’s see what happens if you’d all said no.”
judgement.A graduate is worth what a chatbot can’t do for them: make a call on incomplete information and defend it to people who disagree.
Jotter puts students in the decision, not the summary.
Employers keep asking for the same graduate: one who can weigh incomplete information, commit, and defend the call. That’s the skill every Jotter activity rehearses.
For academics
See the whole room in real time
Every group, every decision, as it happens, so you always know where to steer.
For academics
Evidence that follows the teaching
Every session leaves a record: how much of the room took part, what it decided, what students asked, how they rated it: all of it anonymous, none of it about individuals.
End a live session and Jotter offers to save it to your teaching record: participation, the room’s decisions, questions asked, the session rating. Printable session reports do the same for any activity. A live steer during the term; ready evidence when you need it: fellowship applications, teaching awards, course review, promotion.
The teaching was already excellent. Now it’s documented.
Built in
Built for the room you actually teach in
Fails soft, never hard
Activities keep working through a wifi blip. If the worst happens, every study has a printable backup pack (prompts, answers, model solutions) so the session runs anyway.
Check it’s ready
One tap before class confirms students can join, activities load and the live monitor connects. Problems surface at your desk, not in the room.
Private by default
No student accounts, no names, no personal data. Answers are anonymous by design, not by policy.
Accessible to WCAG 2.2 AA
Checked automatically on every release, not once a year.
From the students
In their own words
I learn far better by doing than by reading, so Jotter has been invaluable to me… it encouraged me to think about the story behind the numbers. That practical approach really strengthened my understanding and confidence.
Business Finance is a subject I have personally found challenging, yet this has been the only module where I have remained consistently engaged throughout. Rather than leaving sessions feeling overwhelmed, I left feeling that I had genuinely learned and understood the material.
There have been times when it has felt as though everyone else has grasped a concept more quickly than I have, and Jotter has provided a safe and effective way for me to check my own understanding.
Let’s talk
Want to try it for real?
The best way to judge Jotter is to run it. If it looks like a fit for your teaching, let’s set up a small pilot (one module, one term) and see what the room does with it.
- A real reply, usually within two working days.
- No sales script, just a proper conversation.
- Happy to jump on a quick call if that’s easier.
Prefer email? Email us at hello@jotter.education
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