BUILD.
COMPETE.
WIN.
The business simulation platform where students don't just learn — they fight to be #1. Real decisions, a daily 5 PM market close, and a leaderboard that settles every argument.
And nothing here resets: every venture your students build becomes a permanent part of the Extrapoli Universe.
Choose your world
Every game is a new market. Every decision has consequences. Every win is earned. The economics underneath match the course.
Food Truck Wars
Find the crowds. Outsmart your rivals. Dominate downtown.
Peak Season
Run the mountain through a shifting economy — snow, credit, confidence, survival.
Grand Prix
Finance a racing team: sponsorships, burn rate, and the cost of speed. One race every week — Saturdays at 10 AM.
Coffee Shop Clash
Your rival just opened across the street. Marginal cost meets morning rush.
Stock Exchange
Analyze. Invest. Grow. Beat the market — and your classmates.
How the arena runs
Instructor opens the arena
Create a section, set your dates, share the join code. One optional checkbox connects it to the Extrapoli Universe — you never configure an economy.
Every team founds a venture
Students join, team up, and name their business — the name goes on the permanent universe record. Then they price, staff, stock, and spend.
The market closes at 5 PM
Every venture runs at once, every day — weekends included. Grand Prix settles it with a Saturday race; Stock Exchange trades real market hours. Either way the reports explain what happened and why — and the leaderboard does the rest.
Most simulations reset. Extrapoli remembers.
Every venture ever founded goes on the permanent universe record — its name, its wins, its story. Foundings, pivots, expansions, and race victories are written to a ledger that never resets, and the leaderboards run in three tiers: class, campus, universe. New students don't start from nothing. They enter a world with history — and try to out-build everyone who came before.
Bao Bros. is founded — the name goes on the record
Class champion at the final market close
Cracks the campus top ten
On the universe record, alongside every venture ever run
A new class arrives — and tries to beat it
Sections that join the Universe also share the same daily economic brief — every campus reading the same morning headlines, riding the same economy.
See the Universe Ledger →Your students think they're playing.
You know they're learning.
📦 Canvas Course Kit
Fill in your course details, download one file, import to Canvas. A complete, ready-to-teach course shell — authored and verified, not auto-generated:
- ✅ 1–15 weekly modules (you pick the length) with self-contained eTexts — no textbook to buy
- ✅ 20-question auto-graded quizzes every week
- ✅ Two-part weekly assignments: compute the numbers, then defend the decision
- ✅ Graded discussions and a comprehensive final exam
- ✅ Branded home page, full syllabus, and due dates on your calendar
🧾 Reports that teach
Every market close explains what happened and why — and names the business concept that shaped the day, with a ready-made discussion prompt from each team's own numbers.
📊 A console built for class
Rosters and team assignment, pacing controls (pause a week, set the close hour), visibility into who saved each team's decisions, and one-click CSV grade export.
💸 Free for instructors
No department approval, no sales call. Students pay $49 a year — one Annual Pass covers every Extrapoli course they take — see pricing →
Born in a real classroom
Extrapoli wasn't designed in a boardroom — it grew out of live courses where the spreadsheet version already had students scheming in group chats.
Tested live across micro, macro, business math, and money & banking.
Students naturally create group chats, strategy calls, and team systems.
AI weakens passive assignments. It strengthens decision-based learning.
Ready to launch something epic?
Set up takes one afternoon. Your students will take it from there — they always do.