Quizlet is an online learning tool supporting content engagement through user-created digital flashcards, question sets, and activities, including individual and group games. The tool can be helpful for anyone who needs to memorize textual, visual, or audio information on a topic. Students and teachers can both create study sets and use the sets from the Quizlet’s database library. Quizlet’s database contains more than 500 million study sets on a variety of topics and academic subjects.
Quizlet is an online cross-curricular learning tool that can help a teacher to transform the traditional classroom into an active learning environment rooted in student engagement. Quizlet provides students and teachers alternative means of compiling information, supporting students as they learn and review compiled information in eight different study modes, including group work. Quizlet provides an alternate way of conducting formative assessments. Quizlet’s study sets come in two types, one being paired terms and definitions and the other being paired questions and answers. A study set can include text, images, and audio recordings. The paid version of the tool also includes diagrams, which work as interactive images, one per set. Students and teachers can search for existing study sets in the Quizlet library and use them as is, but they can also copy the existing study sets and align them with the learning objectives of a specific activity.
Quizlet study modes include:
Flashcards: Students review terms and questions using digital flashcards just like they would do with traditional flashcards.
Learn: Students get personalized learning experience in a dynamic learning environment. The tool’s sequential questions are based on the answers on the previous question(s).
Write: Students answer questions in a written form by filling in the blanks.
Spell: Students listen to the content and write down what they hear.
Test: Students answer test questions on the screen like they would normally do on paper.
Match game: Students match terms and definitions within a limited timeframe.
Gravity game: Students provide answers to stop asteroids from hitting the planet with asteroid falling pace increasing from level to level.
Quizlet Live: Students take part in an in-class collaborative game, where they play in groups or against each other.
Quizlet provides teachers with multiple ways to access their student’s performance. Learn mode will generate the quiz score and Match game will time the student performance, both only visible to students. Teachers can ask their students to submit scores and the “match” completion time. Checkpoint allows teachers to conduct direct formative assessments.
Quizlet works in any computer browser and is accessible through a smartphone or computer tablet application. The basic version of the tool gives access to a limited number of features and comes with third-party advertisements. Students and teachers can access the full potential of the tool and eliminate the advertisements by opting-in for a Quizlet Plus subscription.
Quizlet has an accessibility feature targeted towards special population students. The tool will read out loud the content of the study sets. The text-to-speech feature is available in 18 languages.
Quizlet is intended for students age 13 and over. For the students below the age 13, Quizlet will create a “Child Account” with a “limited feature set and restricted website experience that removes certain features”. In some areas the “Child Account” will apply until the students reach the age of 16. Quizlet is PRIVO-certified for compliance with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).