Quest Ladder
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Quest Ladder / The canvas
The learning path canvas
The map of your ladder, and the three ways to put something on it.
Draw the path you would actually teach.
What it is
Learning path is the canvas. Its instruction is one line: add question types, then drag connections between them. New paths use the subject defaults, and any path can be customised.
A node is a step — one question type. An arrow is a path — the rule for moving from one step to the next. Double-clicking a node opens its Step settings; clicking an arrow opens Path settings.
Getting types onto it
| Way | What it does |
|---|---|
| Add question type | Opens the picker. With intended modes set, each type carries a readiness badge. |
| Pull in prerequisites | Reads the dependencies recorded on the types already there and brings their prerequisites onto the canvas, connected. |
| Insert ladder | Brings in a whole other ladder, either copied in or as a linked block. See Insert a ladder. |
Pull in prerequisites is the one that saves real time, and it is the payoff for having recorded dependencies on your types. It tells you when there are none to pull.
Drawing paths
Drag from one node to another to connect them. A ladder does not have to be a straight line: a node can have several outgoing paths, and a node with several incoming ones chooses between Require all incoming paths (AND) and Any one incoming path (OR).
Several nodes can be starting points, and Entry priority (multi-start) decides which a learner meets first. That is how a ladder offers two routes into a topic rather than one.
Every new path inherits the subject's defaults, so a ladder drawn quickly is already sensible. Customise the paths where the teaching genuinely differs, and leave the rest — a ladder where every path has been hand-tuned is one nobody can safely change later.
Readiness while you build
With Intended delivery modes set on the ladder, the type picker shows a badge against each type saying whether it is ready for those modes, and warns before you add one that is not.
It is worth setting even if you are not sure yet. Finding out that half your types have no stem variants is much cheaper at this point than at the point of publishing an exam.
Before publishing, the Publish readiness panel checks the whole thing: every step has a published pool and the path is valid.