Getting Started

  1. Make a new deck
    • Making a subdeck for chapters
      1. Click “Add”
      2. Type “Parent Deck name::Subdeck name”
  2. For courses, find relevant course material and reference learning objectives
    • Make sure your cards are not too content dense. Keep each card between 1 word to 1 sentence to learn
  3. To make a new card, click on a deck, then click “add”. Check at the top of your screen that your card type is correct for what you want to make.
Naming decks and subdecks

Common Types of Cards

Basic

  • Use for simple questions/definitions
  • Front- Question
  • Back- Answer
Basic Card ex

Cloze deletion

  • Cloze deletion is a type of card that allows you to hide a certain part of text to turn into into a flash card
  • Use for larger bodies of text containing text that is context dependent
  • When making a cloze deletion card, type “ {{c1:: “ to begin the part of text that will be hidden and “ }} “ when done
  • To make multiple cloze deletions, replace the “1” in the “ {{c1:: ” with the next whole number. No limit on # of clozes in a card and only one cloze will be hidden at a time.
example of cloze deletion

Image Occlusion

  • Use for diagrams or content dense images
  • Allows you to hide certain parts of an image to guess
  • Click the shape of occlusion you want, click and drag to stretch the occlusion over the part of image you want to hide
    • Hide all, guess one- Hides all occluded areas and guess the one highlighted in red
    • Hide one, guess one- Hides only one of the occluded areas for you to guess
Image occlusion example