Course Simulations

Your course,
personalized into
something students live.

Every course has the raw material for a simulation — the companies, the policies, the decisions, the people. Kova turns that material into multi-stage career arcs, deliberations, and writing scenarios — each one personalized to the student's own interests, and ready to run as an assignment or live in class. Students stop reading about the subject and start living it.

Request a demo See how it fits
Why it works

Students remember
decisions they made.

A static case study asks students to analyze a decision from outside. A Kova simulation asks them to make it — then live with what happens next. Upload your course materials — readings, cases, notes — and Kova builds the scenario around your course's own content, then personalizes it to each student.

How students experience it

Personalized, active,
and alive in class.

A simulation only works if students are in it. Kova makes the material theirs, makes them do the thinking, and lets you run the whole room through it together.

🎨
Personalized to each student
Every student's simulation is re-skinned to their own interests — same decisions, same lesson, set in a world they care about. They stop reading about the subject and start living it.
✋
They decide, then defend
Students make the call and live with what happens next, stage after stage. Active doing, not passive reading — the involvement is what makes it stick.
🎭
Or run it live, together
Drop a sim scene into class and the whole room faces the decision as one shared, class-tuned experience — while you see exactly where everyone stands.
How you run it

Assign it, run it live,
or have us build it.

Every simulation works three ways — the same real-world scenario, deployed however your course needs it.

01
Assigned
Self-paced, personalized homework
Assign a simulation as take-home work. Each student moves through the stages on their own time — re-skinned to their own interests, coached by the AI mentor, and building on every decision they make. You get a full picture of how each student reasoned, without grading a single page by hand.
Personalized per studentAI mentorAuto-scored
02
Live in class
One decision, the whole room
Drop a sim scene into your lecture and the class faces the decision together — tuned to the interests and opinions in the room. They vote a path, defend it, and watch the consequence unfold as a shared experience, while you see exactly where everyone stands.
Shared experienceLive class readRuns in Lens
03
Custom-built
Bespoke, built by Kova
For a capstone, signature, or program-wide course, Kova's team builds a custom multi-stage simulation from scratch — around your specific organization, industry, case, or dataset. You bring the real-world context; we build the branching scenario, roles, and outcomes to match.
Your exact caseProgram-wide arcsBuilt with you
How it connects

One simulation,
connected to everything.

A simulation is complete on its own — a self-contained, multi-stage experience. And it plugs into the rest of Kova, so the work flows into your live lectures, your grading, and your read on the class.

🔍
Lens & Conjure
Drop a decision scene from your simulation into a live lecture — or ask Conjure to build a fresh one from the slide on the spot — and run it with the whole room, with Class Pulse showing where everyone stands.
Explore Lens
⚖️
Deliberation Boards
When a simulation reaches a genuine fork — a policy call, a values dilemma, an ambiguous tradeoff — spin it into a full structured debate, with an AI sparring partner that won't let weak reasoning slide.
Explore Deliberation Boards
✍️
Workshop & Peer Review
The written artifact at the end of a simulation — a founder's journal entry, a recommendation memo, a reflection on what the student chose and what they'd change — peer-reviewed against your rubric.
Explore Workshop & Peer Review
📊
Polls, Quizzes & Study Sets
Quick comprehension checkpoints between stages, plus study sets and flashcards generated straight from the simulation — so the concepts stick after the decisions are made.
Explore Polls & Study Sets
📈
Course Analytics
See exactly how each student reasoned through the simulation — which decision points they got wrong, where the class split, and who's slipping — before the exam, not after.
Explore Course Analytics
🛠️
Custom Simulations
For a capstone or signature course, Kova's team builds a bespoke multi-stage simulation from scratch — around your program's specific organization, industry, case, or dataset.
Explore Custom Simulations
In the classroom

Built from the course
you already teach.

A sample of what course simulations look like across disciplines.

📈
Finance
The CFO's dilemma
A multi-stage sim through a company's capital structure decision.
"You're NovaPay's CFO. Your Series B closes in six weeks. Walk the board through the equity vs. convertible debt decision — then defend it when the lead investor pushes back."
🎒
Teacher Prep
A semester in one sim
Students navigate a full semester of classroom decisions as a first-year teacher.
"It's week three. A student you've been worried about hasn't turned in the last two assignments. Do you call the parent, talk to the student first, or escalate to the counselor?"
📁
Social Work
The case file
Every decision carries forward. Students see what their choices built.
"You have 40 minutes before your next home visit. Your supervisor is unavailable. The file says the last worker had concerns. What do you do before you knock?"
🗺️
Strategy
Market entry, stage by stage
Students make the call, then face the consequence they didn't anticipate.
"Apex enters Southeast Asia. Six months later, a local competitor launches at 60% of your price point. You have one quarter to respond before the board meeting."
See your course
become a simulation.

Upload your course materials and we'll show you what a personalized sim could look like for your course.

Request a demo See Simulations