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Surfaces, date range and filters
One set of controls that narrows every report the same way.
Narrow it until the answer is obvious.
The four surfaces
Surfaces is a set of four independent toggles: Whiteboard, Quest Ladder, Workshop and Virtual Lab, with Select all and Clear. None pressed means all surfaces.
They combine, so you can ask about Quest Ladder and Virtual Lab together and leave board time out. A surface with nothing in range is greyed but still clickable, which tells you something in itself.
Some reports lock it. A ladder report is Quest Ladder only and says so rather than offering a choice that would do nothing.
Date range
Date range offers 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, This term and Custom. Deltas are shown against the previous equivalent period.
This term is a fixed sixteen weeks. The platform holds no term dates, so it cannot know when yours started. For a term that is not sixteen weeks, use Custom.
Custom reveals two dates and only applies on Apply, so a half-typed range does not reload the page. It refuses a backwards range plainly.
What each surface adds
Choosing a surface reveals its own filters. While all surfaces are shown, the panel says to choose one to see its filters.
| Surface | Filters |
|---|---|
| Whiteboard | Board, Page (needs a board first), and what to show: time, page views, checkpoints, quizzes, objects, labs |
| Quest Ladder | Delivery, Ladder, Mode, and Answered on — anywhere, on a whiteboard, in a Virtual Lab, personal link, or embedded elsewhere |
| Workshop | Station, Object, and whether it was used on a board or through a shared link |
| Virtual Lab | Lab, Mode (any, guided, flexible), Where, and whether to include quizzes in labs |
Applied filters restate as removable chips, so it is always visible why a number is smaller than you expected. A filter list with no activity says so rather than offering an empty dropdown.
Sharing and stale filters
The filters live in the page address, so a filtered view can be bookmarked or sent to a colleague. When something in a shared link no longer exists — a deleted delivery, an archived class — the page says a filter in this link no longer applies and was ignored, with a dismiss.
That notice is worth reading rather than dismissing: the figures you are looking at are broader than the person who sent the link intended.