Courses · ☕ Coffee Shop Clash

Canvas kit

MICROECONOMICS

Marginal cost meets the morning rush, one rival across the street.

Built for principles-of-micro courses that want supply, demand, and marginal cost to leave the whiteboard.

Generate this course for Canvas, free →Instructors start free

What your students do

Student teams run a coffee shop head-to-head with a rival across the street: menu prices, day-to-day operations, customer programs with diminishing returns, and one-shot investments that change their ceiling. Marginal thinking stops being a diagram and starts being the morning rush.

Coffee Shop Clash also fits: Principles of Marketing, Pricing Strategy, Managerial Economics, Strategic Management, Consumer Behavior, Hospitality Management. This kit is written for Microeconomics; 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.Supply & Demand
  2. 2.Elasticity
  3. 3.Consumer Choice & Marginal Utility
  4. 4.Production & Costs
  5. 5.Market Structures
  6. 6.Profit Maximization & Pricing
  7. 7.Price Discrimination & Market Segmentation
  8. 8.Game Theory & Strategic Interaction
  9. 9.Labor Economics
  10. 10.Capital & Investment Decisions
  11. 11.Information, Reputation & Signaling
  12. 12.Behavioral Economics
  13. 13.Location, Externalities & Neighborhood Effects
  14. 14.Welfare: Surplus, Efficiency & Deadweight Loss
  15. 15.Capstone: A Complete Market Analysis of Your Shop

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 →