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Question details: basics and classification
What this question type is, in the fields that everything downstream reads.
Classify it once. Find it for years.
Basics
Title sits above the tabs and is what you will scan for in the list. Under Basics:
- Question format — the twenty shapes a question can take, from multiple choice to proof. Choose it first: the guidance fields below adapt to what your chosen format needs, and changing it later can strand an answer you have already written.
- Description — plain prose about what this type is for. On the AI lanes this is the brief the model works from, so it is worth more than a line.
If you are unsure of the format, open the twenty question formats at a glance before you commit to one.
Classification
This tab decides where the type appears and what it can be matched with.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Slug | A stable, readable identifier. Useful when you need to name this exact type in a link or a conversation. |
| Subject | The subject area. Feeds the ladder's own defaults and the library filters. |
| Difficulty | Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced. |
| Age Group | 5–7 (Playful), 8–10 (Adventure), 11–13 (Explorer), 14–16 (Scholar), 17+ (Academic). It shapes the AI's tone as well as the filters. |
| Content language | The language the question itself is written in, which is not the same thing as your interface language. |
| Tags (comma separated) | Your own vocabulary. The single most useful field for finding things again. |
| Curriculum Alignment (comma separated) | The standards or curricula this type covers. |
Presentation and Dependencies
Two more tabs sit beside these. Presentation decides how the finished question is laid out for a learner, covered in Presentation. Dependencies is where you say what should be learned before this and what it unlocks, covered in Dependencies.
What these fields cost you later
Details feels like paperwork on the way to the interesting part, and it is the one stage people rush. Three of these fields are read by something other than you.
Description
On the assisted and AI lanes this is the brief. A one-line description produces a one-line-quality draft.
Age group
Shapes the AI's vocabulary and sentence length, and decides the default presentation treatment.
Tags
The only field that reflects how you think about your material. Filters and the library search both read it.
Question format is the one field that is awkward to change later: a correct answer written for numeric input does not survive a move to short answer, and the editor will tell you so in the problems dock. Settle it before you write the answer.