English • Language Arts • Composition • Literature • Media
Homepage Ratings is a
simulation that turns
classrooms into competing
publication companies.
In Homepage Ratings, student teams become writers, editors, designers, and critics as they plan, draft, edit, design, and evaluate homepage editions under deadline pressure while managing budgets, salary caps, and multiple quality-based competitions.
The simulation can be tailored to the texts, writing tasks, media products, and assessment goals of your course.
ELAMedia StudiesJournalismFilm ResponseLiteratureComposition
Issue Dashboard
Homepage
Ratings
Round 3
8.5/10
Writing Quality
Design Prize
Critic Accuracy
Students create, evaluate, and publish meaningful work.
Homepage Ratings makes quality visible. Students do not just complete assignments; they prepare work for an audience, judge writing with shared criteria, and compete to improve each edition.
1
Form publication companies
Students build team identities, roles, and editorial strategies before each round begins.
2
Produce homepage editions
Teams plan, draft, edit, summarize, and design publication-style issues under deadline pressure.
3
Evaluate quality work
Students become critics, using course rubrics to evaluate anonymous work and improve judgment.
4
Compete with strategy
Budgets, salary caps, cards, and multiple competitions create collaboration and real-world stakes.
Flexible for your course objectives, texts, genres, rubrics, and media products.
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- Built from classroom-tested materials
- Designed for writing, media, and humanities courses
- Tailorable to your learning objectives