Learning online
Keep what you learned long after you read it
Temari's flashcards bring each card back just before it would be forgotten. Teachers give a deck to a whole class, students make their own, and a photo of notes can become a deck in seconds.
Why students forget what they studied
Most students revise by reading their notes again the night before an exam. It feels like studying, but within a week most of it is gone. What keeps knowledge is being asked to recall it, again and again, at growing intervals.
Flashcards do that, if they come back at the right moment. Temari schedules every card for each student, bringing it back just before it would be forgotten, so a few minutes a day keeps a whole year of chapters fresh for the national exam.
The cards come from everywhere a student learns: the teacher's decks for the class, the student's own notes, the revision cards on every chapter, and the questions they got wrong in practice.
capabilities
Cards return at the right time
Each review is rated, and Temari works out when that card should come back, sooner for a hard one and later for an easy one.
Decks for a whole class
A teacher builds a deck and gives it to a class. Every student with an account gets it, and is told once.
Drafted from a photo
Photograph a page of notes and Temari drafts the cards from it. The student checks them before they are kept.
A game for the whole room
A teacher starts a quiz game from a deck, and the class joins on their phones with a code.
How flashcards work in a class
- 1
The teacher builds a deck
Write the cards, or start from a photo of notes and correct the draft.
- 2
The class gets it
Give the deck to a class. Every student with an account finds it in their review queue.
- 3
Students review a little each day
Each card comes back when it is due. A few minutes a day keeps the deck fresh.
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The teacher reads the class
See which cards the class forgets most, and play the deck as a game in the room.
Review that follows memory
After each card the student says how well they remembered it: again, hard, good or easy. Temari works out from that when the card should come back, so a hard card returns tomorrow and an easy one may not return for weeks. A few minutes a day goes to the cards that need it.
A card that a student keeps getting wrong is flagged, so they can rewrite it or ask the teacher, instead of failing it again every day.
Every review earns study points, and a reminder comes on days a student has not reviewed, never at night. Reviews made with no connection are kept on the device and sent when it returns.
Decks from every direction
A teacher builds a deck for a chapter and gives it to the class. Every student with an account gets it in their queue and is told once. The teacher can then see which cards the class forgets most, which shows what to teach again.
Students make their own decks too: plain question and answer cards, fill-in-the-gap cards where each gap becomes a card of its own, and labelled pictures, such as a diagram of the heart, where each label is a card. A photo of handwritten notes can be drafted into cards, and the student checks every card before it is kept.
Some decks are ready before anyone writes one. The revision cards behind every chapter come as decks, there are vocabulary decks for the language subjects, and every question a student gets wrong in a practice paper is added to a deck of their misses.
In the classroom and at home
A teacher can turn any deck into a game for the room. The class joins on their phones with a code, and each question runs against a short timer, which turns ten minutes of revision into something students ask for.
At home, a parent can quiz their child from the parent's own phone: the parent shows the question, hears the answer and marks it, and the review counts in the child's schedule just as if the child had pressed the button.
A school can also switch on a class effort board, which shows who has been reviewing. It shows effort and never marks, and it stays off until the school decides to use it.
Also in this module
- Ready-made decks for the revision cards and for vocabulary
- Wrong answers from practice papers turn into a deck of their own
- Fill-in-the-gap cards and labelled pictures, one card for each gap or label
- A parent can quiz their child from the parent's own phone
- The teacher sees which cards the class forgets most
- Reviews work with no connection and send later
Common questions
Do flashcards cost anything?
No. Making decks, reviewing, drafting cards from a photo and playing the class game are all free.
Do students need their own phone?
No. A student can review on a family phone or a school computer by signing in with their student ID and PIN, and the class game works on any phone with the code.
Can flashcards be used without internet?
Yes. Decks are kept on the device and reviews made offline are sent when the connection returns.
How does Temari decide when a card comes back?
From how well the student remembered it each time. Cards they find hard come back soon, and cards they know well come back after longer and longer gaps.
Can students make cards from their own notes?
Yes. They can type cards, make fill-in-the-gap and labelled picture cards, or photograph their notes and check the cards Temari drafts from them.
Can a teacher see whether students are studying?
The teacher sees which cards the class forgets most. A class effort board showing who has been reviewing exists too, and the school decides whether to switch it on.
Can a parent help?
Yes. A parent can quiz their child from the parent's own phone, and those answers count in the child's review schedule.
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