What Is a Review Quest?

What You’ll Learn

A Review Quest is a learning activity within an Authura Playbook designed to help students revisit, reinforce, and practice previously learned material.

Review Quests support retention, readiness, and self-assessment by giving learners structured opportunities to review concepts before exams, projects, or major learning milestones.

What This Is

A Review Quest is one of the Quest types available in Authura. Unlike a Basic Quest, which typically introduces new learning material, a Review Quest focuses on reinforcement and practice.

Review Quests help students revisit concepts they have already encountered throughout a Playbook. They are commonly used to strengthen understanding, improve retention, and identify areas that may need additional review before assessments or progression checkpoints.

A Review Quest can focus on a single topic or combine material from multiple Quests or sections within a Playbook. Educators often use them to create structured review experiences before quizzes, labs, projects, midterms, finals, or other important learning milestones.

Inside a Playbook, “Cram Mode” refers to this Review Quest experience. While the name emphasizes rapid preparation and reinforcement, it still follows the same review-focused structure and learning goals as a standard Review Quest.

Review Quests are organized within parent Quests for educators managing Playbooks, but they appear adjacent to related learning activities for students so they are easy to access during review and preparation.

How It Works

Review Quests are structured similarly to Basic Quests, but their purpose is different. Instead of introducing entirely new material, they reinforce previously learned content through practice and repetition.

A Review Quest may include:

• Review content and summaries

• Practice questions

• Knowledge checks

• Mixed-topic reinforcement activities

• Flashcard-style review

• Misconception checks or self-assessment activities

Review Quests can also function as adaptive review experiences depending on how the educator structures the Playbook. This allows learners to spend more time practicing weaker areas while continuing to reinforce stronger concepts.

Each Review Quest contributes to learner progress tracking and helps provide visibility into student readiness before assessments or major checkpoints.

There are also a few structural rules within Authura Playbooks:

• Only one Review Quest can be added as a child to a parent Quest

• Review Quests cannot contain additional child Quests inside them

• Review Quests always provide a 1-star completion reward regardless of performance

These rules help keep review experiences focused, lightweight, and easy for students to revisit when preparing for upcoming learning milestones.

Example

A biology educator creates several Quests covering cell structure, membranes, and cellular processes throughout a Playbook.

Before the unit exam, the educator adds a Review Quest that combines vocabulary review, diagram labeling, practice questions, misconception checks, and mixed-topic reinforcement from earlier Quests. Students use the Review Quest to revisit important concepts, identify weak areas, and prepare for the assessment with structured practice.

When to Use

Use a Review Quest when students need structured opportunities to revisit and reinforce previously learned material.

Common use cases include:

• Preparing for quizzes, exams, or finals

• Reinforcing concepts after completing multiple Quests

• Supporting retention before major progression checkpoints

• Creating “Cram Mode” review experiences inside a Playbook

• Helping students identify gaps in understanding before assessments

Review Quests are especially useful when learners benefit from repetition, self-assessment, and focused reinforcement rather than entirely new instruction.