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Classes, quizzes, and learners

A pathway is a course or formation journey made from ordered sections and lessons. Your church owns every word, question, answer, enrollment rule, and completion setting.

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Choose the enrollment style first

Choose this early because it determines how learners enter the pathway. You can change it before publishing.

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Create the pathway

  1. Open Discipleship → Pathways.
  2. Select Create pathway.
  3. Choose Blank pathway or a church-editable template.
  4. Give the pathway a clear title and short description.
  5. Select Continue to builder.
The Discipleship pathway builder with sections, lessons, content, and settings Templates include common starting points such as membership foundations, baptism preparation, new-believer foundations, serving foundations, and leadership foundations. Replace any wording that does not fit your church.

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Build sections and lessons

Use sections to group related lessons. A membership pathway might look like:
Each lesson can include:
  • A title, summary, and expected time.
  • Teaching text and Scripture.
  • Video or audio links.
  • Downloadable files.
  • Reflection and group-discussion prompts.
  • Required acknowledgements.
  • Questions or a quiz.
Mark a lesson required only when it must count toward pathway completion. Keep lessons focused; a short lesson with one clear next action is usually easier to complete than an entire class session on one screen.

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Add questions and quizzes

Open a lesson and select Add questions or a quiz. Supported question types are:
  • Single choice.
  • Multiple choice.
  • True or false.
  • Short answer.
For each question, write the prompt, accepted or correct answer, point value, and an optional explanation. Correct answers are never sent with the lesson content shown to the member.

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Decide whether a quiz is required

Use an optional quiz for self-checking. Use a required quiz when the learner must demonstrate a clear understanding before continuing. For a required quiz, set:
  • The passing percentage.
  • The maximum number of attempts.
  • A helpful explanation for incorrect answers where appropriate.
Do not score experiences that need prayerful reflection rather than a correct answer. Use reflection or discussion prompts for those moments.
Test every correct answer before publishing. A learner who uses all allowed attempts needs help from the teacher; do not use a strict attempt limit without a support plan.

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Configure completion

Pathway settings include:
  • Pathway type and expected number of weeks.
  • Enrollment style.
  • Whether a completed or removed learner may repeat the pathway.
  • The waiting period before a member-initiated repeat.
  • Completion message.
  • Certificate eligibility, title, award wording, signatory, and accent color.
If repeat enrollment is enabled, a new cycle uses the currently published version and preserves the earlier journey. Approval-based repeats return to pending review; invite-only repeats still require a teacher. Authorized staff can start a repeat cycle even when the member waiting period has not ended. When certificates are enabled, completing every required lesson issues a PDF with a public verification code. The certificate keeps a snapshot of the published wording used for that learner.

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Assign teachers and reviewers

Open Teachers in the builder. A Discipleship manager can assign:
  • Teacher — may customize and maintain the assigned pathway.
  • Reviewer — may inspect the assigned pathway before publication.
The creator remains the pathway owner. A staff member must already have an appropriate Discipleship permission before they can be assigned.

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Publish safely

Publishing creates a fixed version. Learners already enrolled remain on the version they started; later edits do not change their lessons or answers halfway through the class. Before selecting Publish:
  1. Preview every required lesson.
  2. Confirm required quizzes contain questions.
  3. Check correct answers, score, and attempt limits.
  4. Confirm enrollment and repeat rules.
  5. Review the completion message and certificate.
  6. Save the draft, then publish.
To make later changes, edit the draft and publish a new version. Do not expect existing learners to move to it automatically.

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Manage learners

The Discipleship pathway workspace with a published populated class Open Learners from a pathway card or the builder. Authorized staff can:
  • Approve or deny pending requests.
  • Add existing church members.
  • Search and filter enrollments.
  • Review lesson completion and overall progress.
  • Pause, reactivate, or remove an enrollment.
  • Start a repeat cycle.
  • Download, verify, or revoke a certificate.
A progress viewer can read progress but cannot change access. Revoked certificates remain in the audit trail and fail public verification.

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Review formation history

Open Discipleship → Formation History for a cross-pathway view. It shows each enrollment cycle, the pathway and version used, progress, dates, status, and any issued or revoked certificate. History is intentionally cycle-based. A second journey through the same pathway never erases the first one.

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What the member experiences

In the mobile app, a member can review the outline, enroll or request access, continue the next lesson, answer quizzes, see scores and remaining attempts, track progress, finish the pathway, and access an eligible certificate. They can also open Formation History to revisit earlier cycles and begin a repeat when the pathway rules allow it.

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Common problems

Confirm the pathway is published, the member belongs to the same church, and its enrollment style allows discovery. Invite-only pathways require a staff enrollment.
Confirm both pieces of access: the teacher needs a Discipleship permission and an assignment to that pathway.
Check whether another required lesson item is incomplete or a required quiz has not reached the passing score.
The learner may be using an earlier published version. That protects an in-progress class from changing. New enrollments use the current version.