Mindjoy tutors have four levels of Socratic questioning. The right one depends on how much of the thinking you want the student to do, and it is worth setting differently for a teaching tutor and a revision tutor.

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Open the tutor from My Library, click Tutor settings in the top right, and scroll to Socratic mode. Each level lists what the tutor will and will not do, so you can compare before you commit. Click Save changes when you have chosen.

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Direct answers and full solutions, with no Socratic questioning. Useful for a reference tutor, or for revision close to an exam when a student needs the method rather than a conversation.

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Answers the question and does the calculation, but always follows up with a question that extends the thinking. A good middle ground for homework support.

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What we recommend for most tutors. It leads with questions, then gives more away if the student is genuinely stuck rather than letting them stall.

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Purely Socratic. It never answers directly and never calculates, only guides through questions. The most demanding of the four. We would not use it for exam preparation or revision, where a stuck student needs to move on.

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Start a New chat with the tutor. An existing conversation keeps the old behaviour, so testing in it will not show you the change.

See also How to use Socratic mode.

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