The Ombudsman's Desk: teacher guide (summary)
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The student is an intern at the office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights. In each case they sort the complaint, name the article of the Constitution of Ukraine and the group of rights, check whether a restriction was allowed (art. 64) and choose where the person should turn. After every decision a senior officer explains the answer and quotes the official text.
This is a summary. The cases, the Constitution and the full guide are in Ukrainian. Read the full guide in Ukrainian
One lesson (45 minutes)
The minutes are estimates; the rest of the lesson is slack.
- Introduction: who the Commissioner is and the student's role5 min
- The 10 questions before the first shift — or skip themup to 5 min
- A 3-case shift, alone or in pairs (about 4 min a case)≈ 12 min
- Discussion of the one or two cases the class split on most15 min
- Reflection: the question on the shift summary5 min
Over a term
- One 3-case shift a week, each student on their own device and browser: resetting progress on a shared computer wipes the review, so this plan needs a device per student. The desk picks cases on the articles that are due for review.
- Before the test, one lesson of practice in the citizenship-exam format: 20 items, four options each, 45 minutes. It is practice, not the official exam.
The practical task
- “The Ombudsman's Desk: write a complaint” has each student author a new case — the facts, the article and where to turn — for you to review; set it from your teacher account.
The 10 questions
- Before the first shift on a device the desk offers 10 questions on the Constitution, and after shift 4 the same 10 — even on a device that never had the first offer. The two are separate groups, not one student's before and after. A student answers or skips them before beginning, and sees no score.
- While the questions are open the next shift waits, and after shift 4 exam practice first sends students back to them (beginning without them counts as a skip). A student who starts with exam practice is not offered the first questions at all, having seen the material. The questions belong to the device, not the student, and “Reset progress” does not reset them.
- The server keeps only the phase, the number right, the interface language, the day and whether the desk's content had been fully reviewed at that moment — no name and no answers — and releases only aggregate totals for research.
Progress and privacy
- Try the desk on your own device, not a student's: your cases become that device's progress and review.
- Progress is kept only in the student's browser, and the teacher does not receive it. On a shared computer, “Reset progress” clears it for the next student.
- The office is fictional. The real Commissioner exercises parliamentary control over constitutional rights (art. 101), and is not a court (art. 55).
- This simulation teaches what the Constitution of Ukraine provides. It is not legal advice.