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Quests & Curriculum

Uploading a Quest from CSV

Turn your existing curriculum — or a Quest shared by another school — into a working Quest via CSV import.

Written By Dave Hemann

Last updated About 1 month ago

CSV import is the most common way studios build Quests - it turns the curriculum you already have into a working Quest without rebuilding anything inside the app.

What you can import

- Your own curriculum, translated into the CSV template - A Quest shared by another school - any Quest in Musician Quest can be exported to CSV, so curricula travel between studios

How to import

  1. From the Quest tab on your Owner Dashboard, choose to create a new Quest and select the upload from CSV option.

  2. Download the provided Google Sheet template, or use a CSV exported from another Musician Quest account.

  3. Fill in your Levels and Skills following the template's columns. (See: CSV Format Reference for exactly what goes in each column.)

  4. Export your sheet as a CSV file and upload it.

  5. Your Quest is created - open it in the Quest Editor to review, adjust, and set its state.

Tips for a clean import

  • Work in the Google Sheet template. It has the correct headers and column order, which is the most common source of import problems.

  • One row per Skill. Each row places one Skill in one Level.

  • Keep Level names consistent. Rows with the same Level name land in the same Level, so a typo ("Level 2" vs "Level 2 ") creates an unwanted extra Level.

  • Review in the Quest Editor after import. Spot-check a few Levels to confirm everything landed where you expected before publishing.

Translating an existing curriculum

If your current curriculum lives in a binder, a PDF, or your teachers' heads, budget a working session to structure it into Levels and Skills before filling in the sheet. The structure questions - how many Levels, what defines each one - matter more than the data entry.

Draft note: add screenshots of the upload flow and link the Google Sheet template directly.