Glossary

Terms

• Achievement: a badge awarded when its configured criteria are met.
• Approved: the governance state for the current learner-visible version.
• Badge Storage: a collection view for badges you own, including previously earned or acquired badges. ChAI-Ching also shows collectible badges in My Collection.
• BYTE: Stride's in-app guide for practical help.
• BUX: a participation reward used in supported reward experiences.
• Changes requested: a review state that sends an item back to its owner for edits and resubmission.
• Challenge: a focused activity with a clear outcome.
• Client Admin: a public audience responsible for organization setup, people, content, and reporting choices.
• Community: the shared spaces for Spotlight, Discussion Forums, Messages, Prompt Library, Leaderboard, and Mentoring.
• Creator: a public audience that authors quests, training, weekly challenges, and resources for their organization.
• Current version: the approved version that learners can see.
• Direct report: a person actively assigned to a Manager for manager-scoped surfaces.
• Discussion Forum: an organization-scoped place to ask questions and share answers.
• Evolver: the display name for an account that participates in learning, badges, leaderboards, and challenge submissions. Privacy Controls, badges, and history only appear for an active Evolver.
• Invitation status: pending, sent, accepted, expired, or revoked state for an organization invitation.
• Journey: the sequence of learning and practice steps you choose.
• Manager: a public audience whose prompt recommendations and change requests are limited to active direct reports.
• Marketplace: the reward and collectible-badge experiences, including ChAI-Ching and My Collection when available. Paid spins stay off until enabled; auction bidding is retired.
• MCP attempt: your private Stride work record, distinct from the MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector that an AI assistant uses. A graded microlearning attempt can produce a saved pass, completion and normal reward. Historical challenge assessments retain their original review state; new challenges are ungraded and are submitted by the learner in Stride.
• Mentoring: a peer relationship that starts with a request, requires acceptance, and follows a four-week journey.
• Messages: message an accepted peer connection directly within your organization.
• Micro-learning: a short, focused learning activity.
• No data: a report state meaning there are no qualifying records, not that a result is zero.
• Awaiting manager recommendation: a submitted prompt waiting for the Manager decision.
• Manager recommended · awaiting final content review: a prompt with the Manager recommendation complete and final content review still pending.
• Points window: the period when an in-window challenge submission can earn points.
• Prompt Library: a shared collection of prompts that move through a review lifecycle.
• Quest: a connected path made from several learning activities.
• Region: an organization-managed grouping used for assignment and reporting.
• Resource: supporting material or a link in the resource catalog.
• Rewards: supported items or experiences that can be redeemed with available BUX.
• Profile visibility: the choice that controls whether peers can view your profile.
• Work-email opt-in: the choice that controls whether your work email is shown in supported peer contexts.
• Ghost Mode (Anonymity): the Privacy Controls switch that hides your identity behind an assigned handle where anonymous participation is supported.
• Per-item attribution: the choice that controls whether your name is attached to an individual contribution.
• Spotlight: Spotlight Success Stories use real names.
• Superseded: a version replaced by a newer version and no longer current.
• Training: a fuller guided learning activity.
• wAIger: use BUX to wager on real AI-related prediction markets, sourced live from Polymarket.
• Withheld: an aggregate result intentionally not shown because its cohort needs privacy protection.
• XP: a progress signal earned through supported learning activities.