Discussion / Socratic Questions
Open-ended and Socratic questions that get a class thinking instead of reciting.
What Discussion / Socratic Questions does
Good discussion rarely happens on the fly — it needs a few well-aimed questions ready in your pocket. Give this tool a topic and it returns open-ended, Socratic prompts that push students past the textbook answer into reasoning, argument and “what if”. Use them to open a chapter, break up a lecture, or run a full talking-circle.
Every input, explained
- This reference is generated from the live tool definition, field by field.
- Align to curriculum
- Country, curriculum, and year group — written to this curriculum's terminology. Required.
- Subject list is scoped to the board and class you picked above. Required.
- Chapter / Topic
- Optionally narrow the output to one chapter or topic from the canonical syllabus. Leave empty to let the AI stay at subject level. Optional.
- Required.
- How many questions
- Default: 8. Optional.
- Output depth
- Choices: Concise — quick and tight · Standard · Detailed — extra depth & examples. Default: Standard. Optional.
- Choices: Yes — AI adds diagrams & images where helpful · No — text only. Default: Yes. Optional.
- Additional customization (optional)
- e.g. Anything else the AI should keep in mind — tone, format, constraints, examples… Optional.
How to use it
- Open Edukali AI Toolkit → All Tools, find Discussion / Socratic Questions under Student Support and click the card.
- Fill in Align to curriculum, Subject, Topic (the remaining fields are optional).
- Choose an Output depth and, if you like, a specific AI model, then click Generate.
Not sure what to type? Click **Show example** in the form header — it fills every field with a real worked example (CBSE · Class 10 · Social Science) and shows a pre-generated result without spending any AI credits. Undo restores your draft. The runner also gives you a ✨ prompt assistant and voice input on text fields, file upload to pull in your own notes, and — where your board publishes one — an official-format proof panel.
Your document & what to do with it
The result renders as a clean A4 document you can read on screen. From the output header you can Copy it, **Export** it as a branded PDF, Word, HTML or Markdown file, or send it into an LMS course as a page activity with **Add to Course**. One click on **Save to My Resources** keeps the result in your library for later. Narrow to a Chapter and the questions stay inside what the class has actually studied, so the discussion builds on the syllabus rather than wandering off it.