How it works
Chalk turns a one-way Law or Political Science lecture into live participation — polls, quizzes, Socratic cold-calls, shared readings and slides, all answered from the phone or laptop already in your students' hands. No installs. No clickers. Just a link.
The problem
The same few students always answer. The rest hide behind a laptop. You can't tell who has done the reading until the exam. Chalk makes the Socratic classroom work at scale — participation becomes the default, not the exception.
What's inside
Every feature exists to solve a real moment in teaching — the awkward silence, the student who hasn't read, the scramble for materials.
Autograde for instant right/wrong, reveal-later to argue it out first, or open polls with no wrong answer. Results stream in live.
Multiple choice, multi-select, typed short-answer (graded case-insensitively), matching pairs, sliders and live word clouds.
Add a countdown to any question. Answers lock at zero — with a one-tap +30 seconds when the room needs it.
Pull a random enrolled student from the roster to take the floor — so the mic spreads past the same few hands.
Flip any question — or its live results distribution — onto the projector, and switch between them mid-argument.
Point Chalk at a Google Slides deck and it mirrors every slide beside the quiz — students follow along, or you lock the view.
Push cases, statutes and links to the class, each independently publish or unpublish-able. Students only ever see what you've released.
For empirical-methods and legal-tech courses, a real Python editor runs in the browser — auto-graded, with pair-programming and hints, nothing to install.
A live cross-activity leaderboard keeps energy up, while a per-student performance view shows exactly who needs help, question by question.
Live participation
The moment you open a question, answers stream in over a light 2–3 second poll — no refresh, no wrangling. Watch the distribution fill live, reveal the holding when you're ready, then cold-call a student to defend it.
Which branch of government interprets the law?
Hands-on coding
For empirical legal studies and political-data courses, set an exercise and every student gets a real editor that runs Python in the tab — no installs. Submissions auto-grade against your test cases, students can pair up, and hints are one tap away.
Momentum & insight
A cross-activity leaderboard turns the class hour into friendly competition, blending quiz answers and coding points. Behind the scenes, a per-student performance dashboard shows you exactly who's tracking and who's quietly falling behind — question by question.
Open a fully working sample class — flip the slides, answer a live poll, watch results roll in, cold-call a student and browse the coding lab. All with sample data, no account required.