Courses · ⛷️ Peak Season

Canvas kit

MACROECONOMICS

Run a resort through a shifting economy: snow, credit, confidence, survival.

Built for principles-of-macro courses: the business cycle happens TO your students' resort.

Generate this course for Canvas, free →Instructors start free

What your students do

Student teams run a ski resort through a full season of weather they don't control and an economy that moves daily: snowfall, fuel costs, consumer confidence, a rival's ticket prices. They price tickets, run operations, and invest for payback measured in weeks, not days.

Peak Season also fits: Corporate Finance, Risk Management & Insurance, Hospitality & Tourism, Budgeting & Managerial Accounting, Business Strategy. This kit is written for Macroeconomics; for those courses the simulation runs the same and you bring the syllabus.

The rhythm

The market closes once a day at the tick hour you set (5 PM by default, Pacific): whatever decisions a team has saved are what run. Results arrive as a daily report with the economics lesson and a class discussion prompt attached.

Every result feeds the class leaderboard, and a section can be connected to the Extrapoli Universe once the class is running, so ventures that finish a season go on the permanent record.

The 15-week curriculum

Sequenced fundamentals-first, so any prefix is a coherent course: run 4 weeks as a supplement, 6 as a module, or all 15 as the semester. Each week ships an eText, a decision brief tied to the live market, a discussion, and a quiz, and the final exam covers exactly the weeks you ran.

  1. 1.The Business Cycle & GDP
  2. 2.Inflation & the Price Level
  3. 3.Unemployment & the Labor Market
  4. 4.Interest Rates, Money & Credit
  5. 5.Aggregate Demand & Confidence
  6. 6.Fiscal & Monetary Policy
  7. 7.Aggregate Supply & Economic Shocks
  8. 8.Economic Growth & Investment
  9. 9.The Financial System & Credit
  10. 10.Trade & the Open Economy
  11. 11.Reading Macroeconomic Data
  12. 12.Labor Markets in the Macroeconomy
  13. 13.Booms, Busts & Stabilization Policy
  14. 14.Schools of Macroeconomic Thought
  15. 15.Capstone: The Policy Memo

Setup takes an afternoon, not a semester

  1. 1 · Generate. Pick your course length in the Canvas Cartridge Generator and import the .imscc into Canvas, modules, assignments, quizzes, dates, all done.
  2. 2 · Invite. Create your section, put the join code on the syllabus. Students join free; when billing is enabled at your school, one $49/year pass covers every Extrapoli course they take.
  3. 3 · Teach. The market closes once a day at the tick hour you set (5 PM by default, Pacific); reports arrive with the lesson and the discussion prompt attached. The leaderboard settles every argument.

Prefer to run the sim beside your own syllabus? Skip the cartridge, the join code works on its own. See pricing →