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Quest Ladder / Delivery modes
The eight delivery modes at a glance
Eight ways to hand the same ladder out.
Same ladder, eight different lessons.
The eight
Each mode carries a one-line description under the picker saying what it does to the ladder. They are worth quoting in full, because they are more precise than the names.
| Mode | What it does to the ladder |
|---|---|
| Active learning | The ladder exactly as it is, with a due date. |
| Assignment | The ladder's steps as a set paper — you choose how many of each. |
| Exam | One question per step, timed, no feedback. |
| Diagnostic | Probes down the tree until the learner stops coping. |
| Sprint | Fast rounds against a countdown. |
| Spaced review | Fills each student's own gaps. Needs a named student. |
| Live class | You run it live on the board. |
| Challenge | A live team round on the board. |
Challenge is not created here
Seven of the eight are created on this page. Challenge is not, and the page says so with a callout: live multi-round challenges launch from the Whiteboard. You open the Whiteboard, choose Ask the class, enable Challenge, queue the rounds and start the session with your class in front of you.
It is listed here so you know it exists and where it lives, not as something you are missing.
Choosing between them
| You want | Mode |
|---|---|
| Homework that adapts, with hints and learning blocks | Active learning |
| Everyone answers the same questions, marked the same way | Assignment |
| A timed assessment with no help and no feedback | Exam |
| To find out where a new class actually is | Diagnostic |
| Energy, pace and a leaderboard | Sprint |
| To bring back what is fading, per learner | Spaced review |
| To run it from the front of the room | Live class or Challenge |
Spaced review is the one with a hard requirement: it fills each learner's own gaps, so it needs a named learner. An anonymous link cannot tell one person's gaps from another's, and the mode has nothing to work from.
The mode is not the dose
Mode decides the shape of the experience. How many question types a learner meets at each step, and how many questions from each, is separate — see How much of the ladder to serve.
The exception is exam, which fixes the dose: one type, one question, at each step. The panel states that is fixed rather than letting you set it and quietly ignoring you.