How to use the Socratic seminar prep template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Socratic seminar prep template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Socratic seminar prep”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Students fill one row each before the seminar. During the discussion, they may only speak about evidence they wrote down or a classmate’s point.”
Fill in each part
- What is the big question we are exploring?
- Which passage supports your view? Quote it with the page.
- What is your view, in one sentence?
- What question will you ask the group?
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Socratic seminar prep board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

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