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Quest Ladder

Browse built-in quests on any plan, and community quests on Standard and above. Design your own progressive ladders on Quest or Academy.

Teaching beyond content delivery

Education is more universal than it looks. A quadratic equation, photosynthesis, or the causes of a war are taught in thousands of classrooms, in dozens of languages, to learners who each need something slightly different in the moment. AI can deliver that content — and can get it wrong. What it cannot do is read the room.

The problem

Static question banks treat every learner the same, and every teacher rebuilds the same material from nothing. A single score hides whether someone guessed, walked into a confident trap, or genuinely understands the idea.

The universal core

What is taught rarely changes across borders — the language, the examples, and the exam board do. Knowledge worth teaching well is worth designing once, then adapting, rather than rewriting in every school.

The goal

Quest Ladder is a format where progression, retrieval practice, and pedagogy-aware follow-up are designed in — authored once, taught anywhere, with the teacher in control of what happens after each answer.

Built once, shared widely

A quest is not locked to the classroom that made it. Built-in and community content travels across subjects, countries, and languages — while every teacher keeps control of their own version.

Start from working material

A curated built-in catalog ships with the platform, so nobody begins at a blank page. Adapt a quest to your class rather than rebuilding it from scratch.

Shared by the people who teach

Teachers can submit question types and ladders for review. Approved work is copied into the platform library so it stays available to everyone — and the author keeps their own copy.

In the learner’s own language

The platform runs in 41 languages, including right-to-left scripts, and quest content carries per-locale translations alongside the original.

  • English (UK)
  • English (US)
  • English (Canada)
  • English (Australia)
  • العربية
  • বাংলা
  • 中文
  • 中文(繁體)
  • Hrvatski
  • Čeština
  • Nederlands
  • Eesti
  • Filipino
  • Français
  • Deutsch
  • Ελληνικά
  • עברית
  • हिन्दी
  • Magyar
  • Bahasa Indonesia
  • Italiano
  • 日本語
  • 한국어
  • Bahasa Melayu
  • Norsk
  • فارسی
  • Polski
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Português (Portugal)
  • Română
  • Русский
  • Español (Latinoamérica)
  • Español (España)
  • Svenska
  • Kiswahili
  • தமிழ்
  • ไทย
  • Türkçe
  • Українська
  • اردو
  • Tiếng Việt

Four states of an answer, not one score.

Outcome and confidence together tell you what to do next. Quest Ladder separates them and routes each learner to a different follow-up.

  • SecureCorrect with high confidence — reinforce and move on.
  • IllusionIncorrect with high confidence — confront the misconception.
  • FragileCorrect with low confidence — consolidate understanding.
  • BlindspotIncorrect with low confidence — scaffold step by step.

How It Works

1

Create Question Types

Define your own question types and file them under your categories — organization is a topic leaf, not a nest of types. Choose from a wide range of question formats including multiple choice, short answer, matching, ordering, cloze passages, and many more.

2

Assemble Quest Ladders

Arrange your questions into progressive quest ladders. Students climb step by step, unlocking harder questions as they demonstrate mastery.

3

Analytics & Insights

Track how students perform on each question and ladder. See completion rates, average scores, and time spent.

Key Features

Embed Anywhere

Get a simple embed code to place quests directly on your school website, blog, or LMS. Students interact without leaving your site.

Community Library

Share your best question types with other teachers and discover what others have created. Build on each other's work.

Formats and rich media

Twenty-one question formats and rich block types for stems, hints, and active learning.

Question formats

Multiple choice (single answer)Multiple choice (select all)True / falseFill in the blankFill in the blank (multiple)Numeric inputShort answerLong answer (essay)MatchingOrderingDrag and dropHotspot on imageDiagram labelingMulti-stepProofCode executionGraph sketchEquation inputCloze passageMatrix / grid

Rich blocks

Text

Plain TextMarkdownHTMLCallout

Math & code

LaTeX (Display)LaTeX (Inline)CodeCode (highlighted)

Media

ImageAnimated GIFAudioVideoSVG GraphicPDF Document

Diagrams & charts

TikZ DiagramMermaid DiagramChartData Table

Interactive

D3 InteractiveHTML liveEmbed (iframe)

Progression and pedagogy

Question types, active learning blocks, and what Quest Ladder measures — explained on the design page.