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Dependencies: finish first, unlocks, groups and placed under
Record how this type relates to your others once, and every ladder you build afterwards can use it.
Order is knowledge. Write it down while you have it.
Why a type has dependencies
A ladder is a path between question types, and a good path needs to know which ideas rest on which. You can draw every connection by hand on the ladder canvas each time, or you can record it once here and let each ladder start from something sensible.
Dependencies recorded here are a property of the type, so they travel with it: into every ladder you build, and into the suggestions you get when you add it to one.
The four link kinds
| Link | Means |
|---|---|
| Finish first | This type should not be met until that one has been. A prerequisite. |
| Unlocks | The other direction: completing this one opens that one up. |
| Groups | These types are alternatives to each other, covering the same ground different ways. |
| Placed under | This type sits beneath a broader topic, for organisation rather than sequence. |
Each has a help popover beside it in the editor. Platform topics appears alongside them and is read-only: it is where the shared curriculum reference already places this kind of content.
Suggestions from the platform reference
Below your own links, the editor offers Suggested from the platform reference — types the shared curriculum thinks are related. Each carries Add as group and Add as prerequisite.
Suggestions are a starting point, not an authority. The reference does not know your class, your syllabus or the order you actually teach in. Add the ones that match how you teach and ignore the rest.
What a ladder does with them
When you add this type to a ladder, Pull in prerequisites uses these links to bring its Finish first types onto the canvas with it, already connected. Types marked as a group can be gathered into a type group, where a learner meets one of them at random rather than all of them.
None of this is binding. A ladder can ignore every dependency you have recorded; the links make the common case quick, not compulsory.