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Round Table

One challenge in the middle. A secret role for every student. Let the debate begin.

? How to play — 30 seconds
  1. Type a discussion challenge — or grab a starter pack and it fills everything in.
  2. Choose how many students, and whether they sit as one table or in groups.
  3. Deal the cards. Click each card (or “Reveal all”) — it flips to show that student’s secret role.
  4. They discuss in role. Use rounds to change the prompt, or shuffle everyone a fresh role.
🧭 When to use this, and what to say afterwards

Best moment: Mid-tutorial, once they have enough content to argue with. Needs 15 minutes or more. The strongest single fix for a room that will not speak.

What it looks like in different courses

  • CCGLA city must halve its emissions in ten years. Around this table, decide who pays.
  • CCHUA museum is asked to return a contested artefact. Whose claim is strongest?
  • CCAIA hospital wants to deploy a diagnostic algorithm that is accurate but unexplainable. Approve it?

Now ask them — the part that turns the game into learning

  1. Whose argument did you find hardest to answer, and why?
  2. Which role held the most power in this room? Did that match who had the best argument?
  3. What would your character have to give up for this table to reach agreement?
  4. One sentence, written down: whose position have you moved towards, and what moved you?

Do not use this when: Avoid when the question has a settled answer. Roleplay signals that the matter is open, and students will remember the debate rather than your correction.

Make these with AI — no typing, paste them straight in
  1. Copy the prompt below.
  2. Open any AI chat you already use, upload your slides / reading / handout, and paste the prompt.
  3. Copy the AI's whole reply and paste it in the box underneath. Your builder fills itself — then edit anything you like.
You are helping a university tutor turn course material into a classroom game.

I am uploading my course material (slides, reading or handout). Use ONLY that material and write 12 a discussion challenge for the class, then the stakeholder roles who would argue about it — each role with a short line telling that student what they want.

Return plain text, ONE ITEM PER LINE, in exactly this format:
First line: the challenge. Then one role per line, written as “Role — what they want”.

Two correct example lines:
The government must halve carbon emissions in ten years. Decide together who pays.
Energy minister — you must hit the target without losing the next election
Factory worker — your job exists only while the plant stays open
Climate scientist — you have the data and nobody is listening

Rules:
- Separate the fields with the vertical bar | and nothing else.
- One item per line. No numbering, no bullets, no headings, no commentary.
- Never use a line break inside an item.
- Keep every field short enough to read from the back of a lecture room.
- Base every item on my uploaded material, not on general knowledge.
- Do NOT use the | separator for this game — the first line is the challenge, then one role per line.
- Give every role a genuine stake, so no student is left with nothing to say.
- Make sure the roles disagree with each other — that disagreement is the lesson.
- Put the whole answer in ONE code block so I can copy it in one click.

Before you upload anything, stop and decide what is safe to send.Never upload student IDs, student numbers, grades, marks, results, or anything that could identify a student — and never paste them into the boxes below either. Remember that what you upload may not be yours to give away: publishers' readings, textbook chapters, exam papers, colleagues' slides and material you licensed rather than wrote are usually someone else's property. Many free AI tiers keep what you send and may train on it, so read that tool's own terms first. Protect yourself — when in doubt, upload your own summary or notes instead of the original file.

Set up the table

1 · The challenge

CCGLA stakeholder table on a contested policy

2 · Who’s playing

12

3 · Tables

4 · The roles on the cards

5 · Reveal & rounds

Reveal:
Rounds of discussion:
3