Quest Ladder
TeachFORGE.ai
Quest Ladder / Quest settings
Rigour levels and Quest Ladder settings
Define the five strictness levels once, in your own terms, and let every question type follow them.
Strict is a word. This is where you say what it means.
Where it is
Quest settings in the sidebar opens a page headed Quest Ladder settings — the nav label and the page title differ, which is worth knowing when you are looking for it.
Its job is one sentence: define what each rigour level means for your own question types and ladders. Community and built-in content keeps following the platform's own definitions, so changing yours never reaches into somebody else's work.
The default level
Default rigor for new question types is the level a new type starts on. Every type set to Follow my defaults uses it for both Learned today and Still known later.
This is the highest-leverage setting in the Quest Ladder. Changing it moves the bar on every type that has not overridden it, which is most of them, so it is worth a moment's thought rather than a guess.
Editing a level
The table lists Level and Summary for all five — Very loose through Very strict — with Edit, Hide and Reset to platform on each row. Only fields you actually change override the platform default, so editing one number does not orphan you from later improvements to the rest.
| Field | What it means |
|---|---|
| Mastery threshold | The average a learner must reach. |
| Minimum attempt | The floor for any single attempt, so one strong run cannot carry a weak one. |
| Evidence window | How many recent attempts are read. |
| Require unhinted attempt | Whether at least one attempt must be unaided. |
Save settings commits them, and the page confirms.
Making the levels mean something
The defaults are a reasonable starting point and nobody's subject in particular. The levels become useful when they describe how you teach.
- In a subject where partial credit is normal and answers are rarely perfect, a Standard threshold set high will mark competent learners as not having learned anything.
- Where a mistake is genuinely costly — dosage, safety, a legal deadline — a strict floor matters more than a high average, because it is the worst attempt that concerns you.
- Where hints are a normal part of the method rather than a crutch, requiring an unhinted attempt is measuring the wrong thing.
Change these once and leave them. A ladder built against one definition of Standard and assessed against another produces a class whose mastery appears to move without anyone answering a question.
The in-app Rigor levels guide goes further, with worked examples of how the same set of attempts passes at one level and fails at the next.