Quest Ladder
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Quest Ladder / Ladders
Ladders: direction, not dose
Arrange question types into a path, with rules about what happens when a learner struggles.
The ladder owns the direction. The delivery owns the dose.
Direction and dose
A ladder decides direction: which question types, in what order, with what branching, and what counts as ready to move on. A delivery decides dose: how many of them a particular class actually meets, in what mode, by when.
That split is why one ladder serves a gentle homework and a timed exam without being rebuilt. It is also the answer to most where do I set this? questions: if it is about the shape of the learning it is on the ladder, and if it is about this particular class it is on the delivery.
Making one
+ New Ladder opens Create Quest Ladder. A ladder is a title plus Ladder Steps: each step uses a question type, and learners must pass each step to progress.
- Select question type… picks the type for a step.
- Pass score % is what counts as passing it.
- Questions is how many from that type.
- Add Step adds another.
Three settings sit beneath: shuffle questions within each step, allow retry on failed steps, and show the solution after an attempt. All three can be changed later.
Start with three or four steps. A ladder is easier to judge when you can see the whole shape, and the canvas makes adding more trivial once the spine is right.
The builder
Opening a ladder gives you the full builder: a canvas of question types with paths drawn between them, and panels for everything else. The header carries Publish, Delete, Embed, Share to community and Fork.
Two fields at the top shape everything below. Subject sets the defaults every new path inherits, with Save as my default subject so the next ladder starts there. Intended delivery modes is optional and worth setting: when it is, the type picker shows readiness badges, so you learn a type is missing stem variants for an exam before you build the ladder rather than at publish time.
Everything about ladders
- The learning path canvasAdding types and drawing the paths between them.
- Step settingsPass score, questions per step, and what a learner who already knows it gets.
- Path settings and gate modesThresholds, the frustration limit and the five if-not-ready options.
- Path profilesSix ready-made shapes for how a path behaves.
- Type groupsAlternatives that rotate at random.
- Insert a ladderCopy one in, or link it as a sealed block.
- Ladder optionsRetries, solutions, repeats and grading policy.
- Confidence and active learningRatings, remediation, pre-steps and interleaving.
- Milestones, preview and publishingCelebrating a step, previewing as a learner, going live.
- The learning journeySkill status, this visit, and when a review falls due.
- Subjects and the dependency graphWhat the subject decides, and how dependencies are read.