Glossary

Terms

• Achievement: a badge awarded when its configured criteria are met.
• Activity period: the window, All recorded activity, Last 30 days, or Last 90 days, that Executive views use for completed challenges and Estimated Challenge Effort.
• Admin setup guide: the Client Admin checklist that walks through organization, settings, content, and people steps before Stride is started.
• Adoption Impact: the Executive page that shows organization-level trends from monthly surveys, when your organization has turned them on.
• Approved: the governance state for the current learner-visible version.
• Assessment: the questions you answer about your AI experience, starting in onboarding. Profile, then Assessments, lists them, including monthly surveys.
• Badge Storage: the place to view badges earned or acquired in the Marketplace.
• 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.
• Check-in: the longer monthly survey, with 20 questions.
• Client Admin: a public audience responsible for organization setup, people, content, and reporting choices.
• Co-manager: a manager who shares a team with its primary manager and has the same team-management access.
• Community: the shared spaces for Spotlight, Discussion Forums, Messages, and Leaderboard.
• 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.
• Evolver Participation: the choice that lets an Executive or Client Admin take part as an Evolver, with an assessment, quests, streaks, and XP.
• Executive Action: an organization-level follow-up with a named owner, an optional due date, and a status, tracked on the Executive Actions page.
• Featured: a weekly challenge submission that a Client Admin has highlighted for others to see.
• Invitation status: pending, sent, accepted, expired, or revoked state for an organization invitation.
• Journey: the sequence of learning and practice steps you choose.
• Landing team: the team, or All teams, that a manager sees first when they sign in to the Manager view.
• Legal hold: an organization setting that pauses automatic deletion, including message deletion.
• Level: your progress rank, which rises as you earn XP. Some features unlock at set levels, for example the leaderboard and the marketplace at Level 4, becoming a mentor at Level 12, and Prestige at Level 20.
• Manager: a public audience whose prompt recommendations and change requests are limited to active direct reports.
• Manager Assessment: a short assessment a Client Admin assigns to a Manager about their team's AI readiness.
• Manager Capability: the setting that lets an Executive or Client Admin use the Manager view for a team. A Client Admin can turn it on, or the person can choose it at first login.
• Marketplace: the badge-bidding experience that uses BUX.
• Mastery: the navigation group that holds Mentoring and Prestige.
• MCP attempt: Stride's internal term for an AI-assisted attempt at a quest or challenge that gets queued for independent human review before it counts for anything. This is not the same as the MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector that lets Claude and other AI assistants read your Stride status; see "Connect Claude and other AI assistants to 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.
• Needs Support: a flag on Team Overview for a direct report whose recent activity or streak suggests a check-in could help. It is based on engagement only.
• 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.
• Prestige: the advanced track unlocked at Level 20, which lets you reset your level for a permanent XP bonus.
• Prompt Library: a shared collection of prompts that move through a review lifecycle.
• Pulse: the short survey of 10 questions that a Client Admin can send to the whole organization.
• Quest: a connected path made from several learning activities.
• Region: an organization-managed grouping used for assignment and reporting.
• Reporting privacy floor: the minimum group size your organization sets before a report shows a result. Smaller groups are Withheld.
• Reporting scope: the part of your organization an Executive view covers: Entire organization, or one Department, Organization unit, or Region.
• 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.
• Role group: a job role option that people pick about their work. A Client Admin can show, hide, or add role groups.
• Setup quest: the quest pinned on your dashboard that guides you through connecting an AI assistant to Stride.
• Shared invite link: one link a Client Admin can share with a group so each person can verify their email and join. It works for 24 hours, 48 hours or 1 week, as the admin chooses.
• Skill: a guide in the Skills library that you can browse, save, and download.
• Start Stride: the Client Admin action that opens daily activities to Evolvers once every step of the Admin setup guide is complete.
• Check-in group: everyone's Check-ins with the same number, such as all first Check-ins, reported together once at least 5 people were assigned.
• Team Check-ins: the Manager page that shows whether your direct reports completed their surveys and lets you record follow-up notes. It never shows answers.
• Team Health: the share of a manager's team that is currently active.
• Team scoring: an option on some weekly challenges where teams compete and a rule shown on the challenge decides the winning team.
• Token Management: the Learn destination with best practices, plans, limits, and quizzes for the AI providers your organization uses.
• Weekly challenge: a challenge listed on the Challenges page. Submissions earn points only inside its points window.
• 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.
• Write-in: a role someone typed under Other, which a Client Admin can assign to a role group or dismiss.
• XP: a progress signal earned through supported learning activities.
• XP bonus: extra XP for a first-of-its-kind completion, such as being among the first five people in your organization to finish a quest.