Getting started
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Getting started / Your first ladder
Your first Quest Ladder
From an empty dashboard to a link a learner can play: a question type, a few questions, a ladder and a delivery.
A type, a ladder, a delivery, a link.
The four pieces
A Quest Ladder is built from four things, and each one is made from the one before it:
Question type
The pattern of a question: what is asked, how it is answered and how it is marked. One type can produce many questions.
Questions
The questions themselves, made from a type, each with its own numbers or wording.
Ladder
The steps a learner climbs, each step drawing questions from a type, with a pass score to move on.
Delivery
One run of a ladder for real learners, with a mode, a due date and a link.
The dashboard's Quick Actions start each one: New Question Type, New Question and New Ladder. If you would rather start from something a colleague has already made, Browse Library opens the shared library, and you can skip to step 3.
1. A question type
Press New Question Type. You choose how to build it:
| Lane | What it means |
|---|---|
| Manual build | You fill in every part yourself in the editor. |
| Assisted build | You describe what you want; the AI drafts parts of it and you check and change each one. |
| AI build | The AI drafts the whole type from your description; you review it before anything is published. |
The AI drafts and you decide: nothing it writes reaches a learner until you publish it. There are three ways to run it. Copy prompt works on every plan and costs nothing: TeachForge writes the prompt, you paste it into the AI tool you already use, and paste the answer back. On Standard and above you can also connect My GPU or My API key under your profile, once an administrator has switched them on.
When the type looks right, press Publish. If the preview finds a question that does not display properly, publishing is blocked until it is fixed, so a learner never meets a broken page.
2. Some questions
From the type, choose Generate questions. Pick how many you want and press Generate prompt. Copy the prompt, run it in your AI tool, and paste the result into Step 2 — Import bulk JSON. Press Parse & preview to see every question before you save it. You can also add a question by hand with New Question.
Ten good questions are enough for a first ladder. You can add more at any time.
3. A ladder
Press New Ladder, then Create Quest Ladder. For each step, Select question type…, set the Pass score % and how many Questions the step asks, then Add Step. Three steps that get a little harder each time make a good first ladder. Press Create Ladder.
Before you share it, press Preview for a student and climb it yourself. Then press Publish at the top of the builder. The Publish readiness panel lists anything still missing.
4. A delivery and its link
A delivery is how learners reach the ladder. Press New delivery and fill in the Title, the Mode, any Instructions and a Due date. Classes and a linked ladder are optional. Press Create delivery, then Publish.
If you have no class yet, the form says No classes yet — this delivery will work by link. That is fine for a first try. The delivery gives you a Direct delivery link: anyone with it can play, without signing in and without giving a name. Send it, or put it on the screen in the room.
Play the link yourself in a private browser window before you send it. You see exactly what a learner sees, with nothing of your account in the way.
Where to go next
- The dashboard, piece by piece: The Quest Ladder dashboard.
- Choosing a lane: Authoring lanes, Assisted build, AI build.
- Running the AI: Where the AI runs, Your own GPU, Your own provider key.
- Questions: Generating questions and batches, Preview and render verification, Publishing and completeness.
- Ladders: Ladders, The learning path canvas, Step settings, Milestones, preview and publishing.
- Deliveries: Deliveries, Delivery modes, Links, classes and late work, What students see.
- Ladders other teachers share: The shared library.