Autor: Mathias Zaugg

The saying “In the beginning was the flashcard deck” is an important fact. However, setting up a group for your class, is just as important in order to put into practice the best teaching ideas. This group allows you to share your flashcard decks with your students.

You can invite the students to your group (class) by entering (copying) their email addresses in the corresponding box on the card2brain website and sending the (multiple) invitation. The invitation generates an information mail for the students and – as soon as they are registered at card2brain with their recipient email address – they can access the class‘ flashcard decks, by clicking on the menu item “Groups”, and sync the groups to the mobile app.

Just click on the menu item “Groups”. If you get stuck on your own, you can choose one of our click tours. By pressing the “Help” button on the bottom left of the website, you can activate the click tours that guide you through card2brain’s most important features.

Here is the simplest, clearest and most sustainable way of creating flashcards together with your students:

1. Create a group for your school class and invite your students to join this group.
2. Create an empty flashcard deck, or in other words one flashcard deck per theme, chapter or learning objective. You can do that step-by-step in line with your curriculum.
3. Once you’ve created an empty flashcard deck, you click on “Share” in the “Actions” drop-down menu and entitle one or several students of your class to act as “Co-author” by entering their e-mail address in the “Individual user” section. Moreover, you can ask them (orally or in written) to add flashcards to the created flashcard deck within a predetermined time frame.
4. As soon as the flashcard deck is ready (say in a weeks‘ time), you can lock it and get rid of ambiguities, mistakes and redundancies. The feature “Lock file” can also be found under “Share” in the “Actions” drop-down menu of the flashcard deck. By locking the file (or flashcard deck), you withdraw the write permission from your co-authors. Alternatively, you can also simply remove your co-authors.
5. Finally, you share your final and approved file version with your group (class). Thus, all students can use it to study for their exam. Proceed as follows: “Actions” > “Share” >, then go to “My groups” and “select a group” > “Add as …” > “Fellow learners”. Of course, you can also start this procedure in the group view.

According to the age of your students you can adapt the approach described above. Of course, there are many other ways of setting up collaborative scenarios. Here are the main advantages of using this five-step approach:

• You have full control over the flashcard deck and over the learning content of your students at all times.
• The final flashcard deck is your property. You can reuse and share it with other groups (classes) at any moment.
• It is obvious that creating flashcards is the key to success in the learning process. Both, you and your students, benefit from this approach – students because they can study using the flashcards and yourself because you don’t have to do all the work on your own.
• Volume and quality of flashcard decks created by one of your students can be objectively evaluated.

Yeah! From now on, you can create and edit your flashcards also in the mobile app.

Thanks to our partners‘ assistance, you can download the BASIC editor for free or enable the editor toolbar with a PREMIUM in-app subscription from CHF 7.00 for 3 months.

Download and try out the latest version of the app now:

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To make studying on the smartphone even easier, you can now also sign onto the app via QR code to synchronise your flashcards onto your mobile.

After logging in on the web, simply…

1. click on the phone icon
2. download the mobile app
3. show your personal QR code on the web
4. read the QR code with the card2brain app scanner

Less hassles in the classroom

Entering a user name and a password are no longer required. The students access their flashcards even faster and more easily – typos are excluded and the login is guaranteed right away!

100% Single Sign-On

All users registering at and signing onto card2brain via Office365, SWITCHaai or an LMS interface (e.g. OpenOLAT or Moodle) do not need to set an additional password for learning in the mobile app either – once logged in on the web, simply scan the QR code and off you go!

Download and try out the latest version of the app now: