This article was updated in December 2023.
Quizlet is part gaming platform, part quiz, and part teaching tool. Fundamentally, it is designed with all three in mind and as such offers an excellent balance that makes it a valuable tool to use in education.
This will learn and adaptively change to suit the student, making it a teaching assistant that can help instruct, but also assess areas where students may need help.
Quizlet offers visual materials, fill-in-the-blank games, and more. Importantly, the company notes that 90 percent of students who use it end up getting higher grades, so it seems to work.
While it used to offer a lot of free materials, the salary structure has tightened. But with the use of artificial intelligence tools it also offers more resources than ever.
Read on to discover everything you need to know about Quizlet for teachers.
What is Quizlet?
In its most basic form, questionnaire is a digital database of surprise quizzes. It has over 300 million study sets, each of which is like a deck of flash cards. It's also interactive, with the ability to create your own studio set or clone and edit others'.
Verified creators, as they are called, also create and share studio sets. These come from resume publishers and educational institutions, so you know they'll be high caliber.
Quizlet is divided by topic, so it can be easily navigated to find a specific study goal. Many of these use flashcard-style designs that offer a message or question that the student can select to flip over and get the answer.
But there are several options that allow you to learn more of the same data in different ways. So you could select “learn” instead of “flashcards” and then the question would be given with multiple choice answers only, for a more active learning approach.
What's new on Quizlet?
Quizlet frequently updates what it has to offer and now has a fresh new design with the idea of making everything more attractive for both students and teachers.
Some sections that were previously free to access are no longer there, as both the learning and trial modes require you to have a Quizlet Plus account to gain access.
The use of ai-powered tools has resulted in a host of new materials becoming available in recent months, and the company says that will continue to grow.
How does Quizlet work?
Quizlet is divided into several styles, including:
- Flashcards
- Learn
- Spell
- Proof
- Match
- Gravity
- Live
Flashcards They are self-explanatory, like the real thing, with a question on one side and the answer on the other.
Learn places questions and answers into multiple choice quizzes that can be completed for an overall result. This also applies to images.
Spell A word will be spoken out loud and then the student will be asked to type it.
Proof is an automatically generated combination of questions with written response, multiple choice, and true or false options.
Match allows you to match correct words or a combination of words and images.
Gravity is a game that has asteroids with words on them heading to a planet that you must protect by writing the words before they collide.
Live is a game mode that allows multiple students to work collaboratively.
What are the best features of Quizlet?
Quizlet has all these great modes that allow for a variety of ways to convey information to learn about a wide range of topics.
The intelligent adaptive nature of Quizlet is a really powerful feature. Learn mode uses data from millions of anonymous sessions and then generates adaptive lesson plans designed to improve learning.
Quizlet offers a lot of support for English learners and students with learning differences. Select a word or definition and it will be read aloud. Or, in the case of teacher accounts, attach your own audio recording. It's also possible to add visual learning aids to cards with specific images or custom diagrams.
Quizlet has a huge amount of media that can be used, including a huge set of licensed photos from Flickr. Music can also be added, which allows for very specific learning. Or teachers can find something ideal that has already been created and is available in the selection of quizzes shared online.
Quizlet Live is great as students are given codes and once they log in, they are randomly grouped together to start a game. For each question, a selection of possible answers appears on teammates' screens, but only one of them has the correct answer. Students must work together to determine which one is correct. At the end, a snapshot is provided for teachers to see how well students have understood the material.
How much does Quizlet cost?
Quizlet is free to register and start using.
For teachers, it is charged $34 per year for additional features such as the ability to upload your own images and record your own voice – both powerful options if you want the freedom to create your own studio sets from scratch.
Teachers can also track student activity with formative assessments and assignments. Teachers can also customize Quizlet Live, host classes, use the app, and be ad-free.
Best Quizlet Tips and Tricks
Play a game
Use a game like Gravity to help students learn the nature of this digital tool while learning and playing at the same time.
Star terms
Have students mark the terms so they can review them later, or mark them yourself to draw attention to areas that need to be covered.
Use test mode
Have students use test mode first so you can assess where they are on the topic before deciding what additional help may be needed.
