Imagine you are at high school and studying for a French exam. Learning the vocabulary isn’t easy, so you decide to build a simple website to help you get 100%. That’s precisely what Andrew Sutherland did – and he called it Quizlet.
After being shared with friends, Quizlet grew and grew, and it now helps over a whopping 30 million students each month practise and master content through fun and engaging games and activities. It is having a massive impact on education.
Quizlet is a website and an app which allows students and teachers to create and edit little quizzes, flashcards, matching, study sessions, spelling, writing, timed games and more. It’s a study tool in a league of its own – and a veritable model of efficiency.
Quizlet is different because it provides tools to help students actually study and learn effectively, making it an active process. Forget forgetting – once students have learned something on Quizlet, the app has a record of that and can re-show them the things that they are likely to forget.
As they get better, the questions get harder, to keep them progressing.
You can access Quizlet anywhere and it is extremely easy to make a free, online account. Both students and teachers can easily find content from other students and teachers, or they can get creative and make their own material.
You can unlock more features by subscribing to Quizlet Teacher and there is a premium option for students too, called Quizlet Plus. The free account takes you so far, but the extra features mean you can craft and create more engaging content, customise, and use ad-free, too.
Teachers can easily create their own study sets, create and study diagrams, record their own voice and share with students. With ‘Quizlet Live’ you can run a real-time game for high-octane learning that fizzes by creating teams, and play using diagrams with added audio.
There are also tools for tracking student progress so you can see who has done what for gap-checking.
It’s easy to see why Quizlet is considered the pioneer in education gamification and the benchmark in edutech space. Quizlet delivers immediate, out of the box value that can be used in moments – with video overviews and a help centre at hand should you need it.
At a glance
- Powerful, easy-to-use software for teaching, learning and assessing any subject
- Free interactive study material, learning activities and games with built-in social interaction
- Over 220 million sets of user-generated study content freely available
- Applies techniques from the fields of machine learning and cognitive science
Verdict
- Fun, engaging, active, empowering and extremely practical
- Saves time, saves trees, saves workload
- Students reap social rewards helping each other for a positive learning environment
- A high-quality personalised user experience and one-stop shop for everything a student needs to do for subject mastery
- Surely the best note carding platform on the planet for helping learners stay organised
Upgrade if…
You are looking to truly support, motivate and inspire students to study and have them punching the air with enthusiasm and pride. Forget boring textbooks and worksheets!
Find out more at quizlet.com/en-gb/teachers and facebook.com/quizlet.
Reviewed by John Dabell
