Jotter is a live, student-facing platform of interactive business cases and ready-to-run sessions. Students read around a case, work through it together, and write down the judgement they'll keep. You walk in prepared; they walk out having actually done the thinking.
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Students don't learn much by watching. They learn by deciding, by defending a position, and by being challenged on it. The sessions that genuinely change how a student thinks are the active ones, and we all know it.
But teaching that well, week after week, is hard: a case worth arguing about, the right data in front of students, a structure that actually provokes a debate rather than a polite silence. So the richest teaching stays the exception.
Jotter is built to make it the standard.
Jotter works the way a good study does: somewhere to read, somewhere to work, and somewhere to write it all down.
Every case, ready to run. A whole business school's worth of interactive cases and the real data students work from, shelved and searchable. Pick one and you're ready to teach.
Where the session happens. Open a case and the room runs live: the hook, the data, the small-group task, the plenary, the wrap. You facilitate; Jotter carries the scaffolding.
What students take away. As they decide and defend, students capture the call they made and why, so the learning leaves the room with them. It's the room we named the whole thing after: the part that sticks.
It runs live, in the room or online, on any device, straight from a link, with no student logins to set up.
Every Jotter case is a complete session, not a PDF you have to turn into one. Open it, and the structure is already there.
Start with the headline number that makes everyone sit up. Students are in before you've finished the sentence.
The class works from real, student-facing data, the actual numbers, not a sanitised summary.
Groups dig into what the data is really saying and build a position. You track them on the live dashboard.
Groups commit to a decision and defend it. This is where the learning sticks, and where you do what you do best.
A clean debrief ties the thinking back to the concept, and lands in each student's Jotter, so they leave knowing why it mattered.
Each case arrives complete, engineered to provoke real thinking, and to give you the confidence it will land in the room.
A run of show you can follow or flex, so the session paces itself.
Defensible, consistent, and ready for marking and moderation.
The real materials students work from, built for the screen in front of them.
See where every group is in real time, and steer the room accordingly.
Built to stock an entire business school, the same case engine works across every department, whatever you teach.
The largest meta-analysis of university teaching found that active learning raised exam scores and left students in traditional lectures markedly more likely to fail. People learn by doing, deciding and defending, not by watching.
There's a catch that matters. In controlled experiments, students taught by a polished lecture felt they had learned more, yet measurably learned less than peers doing active work. The comfortable session and the effective one aren't always the same. Jotter is built to make the effective one the session you run by default, a case worth arguing about, the right data in front of students, and a structure that provokes genuine debate.
Generative AI has made recall and first-draft answers almost free. Studies testing AI against real university assessments find it performs well on the lower-order tasks (remembering, summarising, explaining) and is weakest exactly where human judgement lives: weighing messy evidence, creating something new, and committing to a decision.
That changes what's worth teaching. If a chatbot can produce the textbook answer in seconds, a graduate's value sits in what it can't do for them, making a call on incomplete information and defending it to people who disagree. That isn't a threat to good teaching. It's the case for it.
Jotter puts students in the decision, not the summary, the skill AI is furthest from replacing, and the one employers increasingly hire for.
Jotter runs in the browser and is built privacy-first. Lecturers sign in with their university email; students join a session with a link and no account at all, so no student personal data is collected. It's designed to fit alongside the tools you already use, not replace them.
As groups work through a case, you see where each one has got to and how they're doing, so you can steer the session and bring the right group in at the right moment.
LecturerIf you teach, or you're building in this space, and you'd like a look at how it works, I'd love to show you. No pitch, just a conversation.