Quizlet Guide

David Shanks

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Date updated: 23/02/2021

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Introduction

• Quizlet is an online digital flashcard website and mobile app that allows learners the opportunity to practise pre-existing and custom-made vocabulary lists (called “sets”) that contain pairs of “terms” and “definitions”.
• The sets can be studied in 5 different study modes – Flashcards, Learn, Write, Spell and Test. Match and Gravity game modes can also be played individually by learners.
• This guide is designed for teachers to show the range of features Quizlet offers and tips on its use. Equally, you may use parts of this guide to show students how to use Quizlet effectively. Live demoing the Quizlet website itself to students is also useful.
• A Quizlet Teacher account (free 30-day trial, £35.99 per year) can be used to organise sets into classes and folders, track student progress and much more. For now, we would recommend using one account for each department.
• A student account is free. You can always sign up as a student to explore and understand how Quizlet works if you do not want to sign up for the free Quizlet Teacher account.
• For the TRG we recommend you go through each of the study modes carefully to fully familiarise yourself with Quizlet (TPACK’s Technological Knowledge). The layout and functions have recently been updated and it’s important to understand both the student and teacher experience.

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Key Links

• https://quizlet.com – new sign up / login / user homepage
• https://quizlet.com/NCELP - NCELP’s user page containing NCELP vocabulary sets that can be practised and, ideally, copied to your account. Click “Folders” to browse by language and year group.
• https://quizlet.com/features/quizlet-teacher-guide-getting-started - a range of videos for teachers to get started on using Quizlet

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Quizlet Teacher

https://quizlet.com/upgrade?showTeacher

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Signing Up

• Choose a sensible username for yourself e.g. Mr_Shanks or department e.g. SWBGS_MFL
• For students, you will need to check you have permission in school to use Quizlet and comply with GDPR.
• Some schools might have a blanket policy already cleared with parents for certain websites, so check your local process. If not, you might need to contact/write to parents specifically.
• For students under a certain age, a parental email is requested as shown.
• If students aren’t asked for a parental email, they should use a school email address if possible.
• A good idea would be to trial setting up Quizlet with students in 1 class in order to iron out the process in your school’s context.

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The Quizlet Mobile App

Quizlet Mobile App

Many students may have a mobile device and more readily access the mobile app than the desktop version of Quizlet.

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Learn, Flashcards, Write, Match and Test modes only are available and are presented differently on the smaller screen with more limited features.

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However, work and progress completed by a logged in student will still be recorded. For the TRG, we recommend using the desktop website version.

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Set Homepage

• This page allows you to access all the available study modes that are described later in this guide.
• Click “flashcards” to enter full screen mode. From here, term order and audio options can be chosen.
• In full screen mode, the cursor keys can be used to scroll through (left-right) and flip over the flashcard (up-down).

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Set Homepage

Scrolling downwards on the set’s homepage shows the full list of vocabulary.

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Icons can be used to star terms for additional practice, listen to audio and edit text.

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NB – Quizlet will ignore content in brackets. Items separated by a comma are considered different possible answers. In write mode, both answers are required.

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Set Homepage

• The circular icons underneath the flashcard on the set’s homepage allow you to perform a range of very useful functions:

Edit the set name, edit terms, import or export lists as raw text e.g. from Word/Excel

Information on the number of students studying, folders and classes that this set belongs to

View student progress in this set across study modes and searchable by date

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Set Homepage

• The ellipse icon is particularly useful and leads to the set functions below
• “Print” offers a variety of vocab list and double-sided flashcard formats

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Customising Options

The options in each study mode can be customised by clicking the options button. This is important for students to know so they can turn on/off audio, swap translation direction, change question types and error checking options (e.g. accept 1 of 2 possible answers as correct)

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Study Modes

• The following 3 slides give an overview of the study modes and could be shared with students
• Do explore each of the study modes yourself to familiarise yourself with the requirements and features of each
• In particular, explore the functionality of the “options” button in each mode

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Quizlet is a fun way to learn vocab. If you are new to a study set, make sure you start off by accessing Flashcards and Learn.

Flashcards

Flashcards mode lets you study Quizlet sets as flashcards. After you click on the Flashcards mode icon, you'll see the first definition (SP/GM/FR) in your set displayed. You can change the order and audio by clicking on the Options button. You can also print your flashcards.

Learn

Learn will quiz you with different types of questions including flashcards, true/false, multiple choice and written. As you begin to progress and answer questions correctly more consistently, Learn will advance you from easier questions (true/false and multiple choice) to harder ones (written).

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Spell

Spell lets you type what you hear to practise your listening and spelling. 

Write

Write measures how well you know your words and keeps track of what you miss so you can focus on those terms later in your study session.

Test

Use Test mode to practise before a quiz or exam to make sure you've got the material down. You can choose different combinations of question types depending on what works best for you.

If you missed any questions, Test mode will show you which were wrong along with the right answer as you scroll down the page. �

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Match

Race against the clock to match your terms and definitions as quickly as possible — and compete with your classmates for the top score!

Gravity

Type your answers as the asteroids fall. Each right answer gets you one step closer to levelling up. As you pass levels, the force of gravity increases and the asteroids start to fall faster for added challenge.

You can configure your game settings. The level of difficulty you pick determines how quickly your terms or definitions fall. On Easy, your terms will always fall slowly. If you choose Medium they'll start slowly and increase in speed. Should you choose hard, they'll start falling quickly.

To get points for an answer, you have to type it in correctly before the asteroid falls past the answer text box at the bottom of the screen. If you're not sure of an answer, you can press the Escape key to skip it and Gravity will show it to you again later.

If you miss an answer, you'll be prompted to retype it before moving on. �

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Copying sets from NCELP

• One beauty of Quizlet is the ability to copy existing content (sets) from other users!
• Once logged in, in the search bar type NCELP (filter by user) or go to https://quizlet.com/NCELP
• Navigate to the set you want to copy to your own sets/folders/classes
• Click the ellipse button and + Add this set to a class or folder
• Add the set to an existing folder or class using the + button
• Alternatively, create a new folder (or class)
• You now have the NCELP set in your folders/classes – go back to your homepage to check and see what this looks like
• You can also click the customise button to create a new set based upon that from NCELP. This is useful as you can rename the set title and make any amendments you wish

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Customise button

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Folders and Classes

• From your user homepage, on the left hand side you will see your sets, folders and classes listed
• Folders allow you to organise your sets logically e.g. Year 7 French
• To create a folder, click + Create a folder
• Classes allows you to add study sets from folders and monitor students’ progress.
• Label your folders, classes and sets in a clear and logical way for both teachers and students to navigate e.g.

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Creating Classes

• From your homepage, click + create a class
• Label it including your name and select your school
• You now need to a) add sets to your class from folders b) add students to your class

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Adding Sets to Classes

• There are 2 ways to do this:
• Go to your class and click the + button, and then choose your set
• Go to your set, click the ellipse and then + Add this set to a class or folder

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Inviting Students to Your Class

• Navigate to your class to get a link you can share directly with students (as text or via a virtual learning platform)
• You will need to accept students’ requests to join the class
• Alternatively, click the add members icon and add usernames/email addresses

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Monitoring student progress

• Once your class is set up with members and sets, you can monitor student progress
• Go to the class and click the view class progress graph icon
• You could set students the task of completing all or particular study modes on Quizlet for homework
• A green tick indicates the section has been completed

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Possible TRG Tasks

• Sign up as a learner or free Quizlet Teacher trial Choose username wisely!
• Explore and become familiar with the different modes. It’s important to know how students will experience Quizlet
• Adapt study modes through the options button (which language comes first, audio on/off, error correction settings)
• Create folders and add sets to folders
• Copy a set from someone else (NCELP!)
• The edit button 🡪 for editing terms and definitions
• The share button 🡪 for sharing the link with students
• The ellipse button 🡪 printing flashcard and vocab list options
• Create a set from scratch (using the import text function)
• Create a class and assign sets to the class
• Combine 2 sets (for revisiting)
• Create a qrcode using qrstuff.com
• Investigate using Quizlet Live

Getting started on Quizlet

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