Tracking Your Progress¶
This page explains how progress works in Mention, the difference between being complete and being current, and where you can see where you stand.
How progress is calculated¶
Progress is a count of lessons: lessons you have finished, out of the lessons that have been composed in your Audience.
You finish a lesson by passing every piece of material it grades — not by reading the article it was built from. There is no partial credit at the entry level: a row is finished or it isn't, and there is no score.
Entries whose lesson doesn't exist yet — the article still being written, not ready because your organization's sources don't cover it, or the lesson not composed from it yet — are not counted against you. They aren't in the denominator until the lesson is.
What being credited means¶
Each exercise declares the piece of material it exercises, and passing it records mastery of that material, not of the exercise. Two consequences, both in your favor:
- If the article is rewritten and its lesson built again, what you already passed stays passed.
- If your Audience's owner changes how something is exercised, your progress is untouched.
This is a measurement rather than an acknowledgement. Your Audience's owner sees what you passed and when it falls due again, not your own word for it.
Where to see your progress¶
On your contents list:
- The Lessons strip in the page header — how many of the Audience's composed lessons you've finished.
- Each row — finished or not.
- Your Hub — whether anything is due for you in this Audience right now. When you're current and nothing is due, it tells you when the next item comes back.
While you work through a lesson you see your position — Exercise 3 of 7 — and nothing more. The mastery detail — each statement the lesson grades, a strength for it, and when it comes back for review — appears when you finish the lesson.
Per-Audience tracking¶
If you belong to multiple Audiences, progress is tracked independently for each one. Switching Audiences in the sidebar shows the progress for that Audience only.
Complete and current¶
These are two different statements and it is worth keeping them apart.
- You are complete in an Audience once you have finished every lesson in it. There is nothing left to start.
- You are current in an Audience when you are complete and nothing in it is overdue for review.
Current is the one that means you know the material today. Being complete in March does not make you current in June, and catching that is what review is for.
Neither is permanent. A new entry from your Audience's owner puts you back to unfinished on that one, and material falling due makes you not-current until you clear it.
The final exam¶
Finishing every lesson opens the Audience's final exam: a single roleplay conversation drawn across everything the Audience taught you. You are dropped into one realistic situation from your own working life and play your own role against a counterpart; Mention plays the other side. Nothing tells you what is being examined — the situation is real and you supply the knowledge.
The exam samples up to six topics from the material you hold most weakly, so it measures what is most likely to have slipped rather than re-asking what you just aced. The conversation is bounded — eight turns, with the count of turns you have left on screen — and you can end it early and have it graded as it stands. It is graded once, at the end, topic by topic:
- A topic you handled the way the material says climbs a rung, like passing a review item.
- A topic you got wrong or dodged drops to the first rung and falls due immediately — you stay complete, but you are no longer current until review clears it.
- A topic the conversation never genuinely reached is left exactly as it was. Silence is not evidence either way.
The transcript is not kept once the exam is graded; what it decided lives in your mastery. Sitting the exam never finishes or unfinishes a lesson — that is what lessons are for — and you can sit it again later, drawn fresh against whatever you then hold most weakly. The exam is reachable from your contents screen once it opens, and from a connected agent as well.
Review¶
Material you have passed comes back on a fixed schedule: 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, 21 days, 60 days. Pass it when it returns and you move up a rung, so the next gap is longer; fail it and you drop to the first rung and climb again.
Review draws on everything you have finished in an Audience, and an item can come back as a different kind of exercise than the one that first taught it. See Working Through Lessons. Review runs from the contents screen inside each Audience; it is per-Audience, like everything else.
Doing a review session¶
Your contents screen tells you how many items are waiting before you commit to anything, so Start reviewing only appears when there is something to review. Press it and Mention gathers everything that has fallen due for you in that Audience into one session, then serves it a single item at a time. Leave a session half-finished and coming back picks up the same run where you stopped rather than drawing a new one. When you're current and nothing is due, Hub says so and tells you when the next item comes back. At the end you get the tally — You got 5 of 8 right — and a list of what the review moved and when each piece comes back.
Two things work differently from a lesson:
- There is no retry. Getting a review item wrong does not hand you a variant to try again. The item is answered either way, and the material drops back to the first rung so it comes back in a later review instead. You still get the correction — that is what the item was for.
- Every review item is a single question. No warm-ups: an item can come back as a different kind of exercise than the one that first taught the material, but never a multi-turn one.
If Mention cannot grade a written answer, it says so and the item stays open for you to submit again — that is an outage, not a verdict.
The same session is reachable from a connected agent instead of the tab. It is one feature with two front ends: the same due material, the same items, and the same progress recorded either way.
Nudges¶
If you stop making progress in an Audience, Mention nudges you after a week with a Pick up where you left off notification, and reminds you weekly until you finish something. You get the same nudge when review falls due on material you have already passed, even if you finished the Audience only days ago — that is the review schedule catching up with you rather than you having gone quiet. Your Audience owner is told too — they see a count of how many learners have stalled, not a message per person.