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Path profiles
Pick a shape rather than setting six numbers, and adjust only if you need to.
Someone has already tuned this for your subject.
What a profile is
How this path works on the path settings panel offers a named profile. Each is a bundle of gate mode, thresholds and frustration behaviour that has been tuned for a way of learning, so you choose one description rather than six numbers.
The generic description covers what they all do: learners advance when they meet the path's readiness bar, and if they struggle the path remediates before they try again.
The six
| Profile | Behaves like |
|---|---|
| Mastery gate (path profile) | A high accuracy bar and calibrated confidence before advancing. On struggle: active-learning remediation, then retry this step. |
| Scientific method | Balances conceptual and quantitative readiness into one composite gate. Suits experimental and applied science. |
| Molecular web | A moderate composite gate for linked procedural and conceptual steps — chemistry-style ladders. |
| Conceptual network | A flexible composite gate with a gentler frustration limit. Good where order is advisory rather than strict. |
| Reflective lens | Weighted towards reflection and self-explanation. |
| Resilience builder | Tolerant of repeated attempts, aimed at persistence. |
Each shows its own description in the panel when selected, so you can read what you are choosing rather than inferring it from the name.
Choosing one
Start from the subject. The ladder's subject already loads a sensible profile into every new path, and for most ladders that is the end of it.
Change it where a particular path is doing something different from the rest of the ladder. The two cases that come up most often:
- A foundation step everything else depends on, which deserves the strict mastery gate even in a ladder that is otherwise flexible.
- A step learners find genuinely hard, where resilience builder or a gentler frustration limit stops the ladder becoming a wall.
There is a control to apply a profile to every path at once. It is useful when you have realised the whole ladder should behave differently, and destructive when you have already tuned individual paths — it overwrites them.
When none of them fit
Profiles are a starting point, not a constraint. Selecting one and then adjusting a threshold is normal; the panel marks the path as customised so you can see at a glance which paths have been hand-tuned.
If you find yourself making the same adjustment on every ladder, the better fix is the subject defaults, so new paths start where you actually want them.