Today we’re launching Facebook on Quizlet. This feature lets you use your Facebook account instead of a Quizlet account to log in to Quizlet. This removes the need to create a Quizlet account with a password and email address and birth day–you just use your Facebook!
If you already have a Quizlet account, you can use both. If you do authorize Facebook with an existing Quizlet account, Facebook features on the site will only show when you are also logged into Facebook (there will be helpful prompts that show you how to do this).
In addition to logging in with Facebook, you can do some special Facebook things within the site:
When you post a new set (that’s not private), you have the option to post a link to it on your Facebook page, so that your friends on Facebook can see what you’re studying:
You can also see your currently online Facebook friends that are also studying on Quizlet. The My Groups page becomes My Friends and you’ll see something like this:
If you’ve added Facebook to your Quizlet account and want to remove it, you can do that in your preferences page (link at the top-right corner).
This is just the first start on the Facebook project — giving you the basic features developers Facebook gives you to integrate websites. As we hear suggestions and explore the platform more, we’ll add things that make this integration even more useful.
So, what do you guys think? Let us know 
P.S. I also slowed down Space Race a little and made some bug fixes. Post a comment if you see something amiss. Thanks!
Yay!!!
Congratulations! Looks nice.
Nice. Now maybe you have time to integrate my Moodle export function as an option? You’d get a *lot* of teachers interested in using this site! I know I already have a bunch using my version of the exporter.
http://pin13.net/quizlet/
My contact info is at the bottom of the page.
Aaron: nice work. I’ll have to think about how best to integrate that, but it’s very cool.
this is sweet but too bad i dontn have an account
what is moodle?
I like this, it’s real nice. Now I can see which of my friends on Facebook are on Quizlet at the same time.
When do we get private messaging back?
whenever i click the facebook button, my browser window starts shrinking
bdvd — weird. I just did a quick search and it looks like it’s happened to just a couple people. Are you using Firefox? What version and on what type of computer?
sami_dog — they’re gone for the foreseeable future
-Andrew
Hey,
that’s a really cool adition now i just wish my mom would let me have a facebook. 
lol hope you could still give my thought some more thinking about talking to people from our own school.
I’m not confused anymore
i guess thats cool….i dont have a facebook or a myspace i use QUIZLET!!!!!
when will private messaging and forms come back
Secretspy: not in the foreseeable future.
hey andrew why did you take down both private messages and forums? also, for another acount it said that it wouldn’t let me go on because I was under 13 and it bugged me because i was going to be 13 in a few weeks. i sent a message but like since PMs are down i guess you didnt get it. i had a group and sets and everything!! (i downloaded the sets) but now my group is all messed up. HELP!!
well why not?
Hey Andrew, are you considering reopening the private forums? (just in a group) I am a creator/ manager of a group with over 180 people and it was the easiest way to let everyone in the group know what’s going on. If not, I’m sure you have good reason not to. So, please consider it, and if not, thanks anyway! This site is amazing!
What about, instead of a forum, just make a section in the group for “Admin Announcements”? So if group admins have to let their group know anything, they can just post an “announcement” on the group home page. This would keep the environment of quizlet focused on studying, but also allow people to manage groups…
The facebook feature is great, by the way!
ipod app???? when does it come out
Hi Andrew
I’m discovering that in the create set page more or less all links or buttons such as show symbols, or look up other user def or the plus and minus buttons for adding and removing aren’t working. They just link to the top of the page. Import into this set and the flip pink also does this. Double clicking on a word to redefine without going into the edit page doesn’t seem to be working either. It was all working fine the other day, is this something to do with the Facebook link up? Sometimes when I click on one of the above, I can see in the bottom of the task bar it trying to connect to connect.Facebook.com or something along those lines. I’m using Firefox 3.0
Anonymous — it may be because you caught the file at the wrong time while Facebook stuff was syncing. Try emptying your cache (search empty firefox cache). If that doesn’t do it, that’s pretty weird. If you go into Firefox > Tools > Error Console does it say anything?
Hello aaronpk,
Could you please provide some details on exporting from Quizlet into Moodle. I tried using your exporter, but it creates a .txt file and Moodle needs a .xml file to import to a glossary.
Is your exporter for creating “quiz” questions in Moodle?
Thanks,
Jim
aaronpk:
Nice. Now maybe you have time to integrate my Moodle export function as an option? You’d get a *lot* of teachers interested in using this site! I know I already have a bunch using my version of the exporter.
http://pin13.net/quizlet/
My contact info is at the bottom of the page.
Hi Again Andrew!
I’m trying to think of a way to use this new Facebook connection with my students, generally here in Brazil they are addicted to Orkut and getting them to change is difficult. I’ll try searching the groups here to see if any teaching groups are suggesting things.
Thanks for your reply and suggestion (not sure why my name didn’t appear lol). I tried flushing the cache in Firefox and restarted it and everything is working just fine
Keep up the good work and thanks again
how do i get a face book
y r we only allowed to have 8 groups now?
so many of them have been deleted!
drum59: go to http://www.facebook.com
when will the iphone app be coming out and will it have an offline mode for ipod touch users?
and btw the max groups should be 10
Um, hate to be rude Andrew, but why did you delete most of my groups. Especially my favorite one! (Would You Rather _______ or ______?)
Also, I read somewhere on this website, and I’ll go find it again, that one of the main reasons you let us have groups is to talk to people, and fix problems, SO HA!!
ok, here it is, i found it . . . . .
Groups are useful for…
* Classmates
Working together, only one person has to enter data.
* Staying in touch
Every group page has its own live discussion box.
* Fixing mistakes
Let your group find your mistakes and fix them for you!
* Email notification
Choose to get an email every time a set is created for your group.
P.S. I seriously didn’t make this up! I copied it and then pasted it!
I am using Firefox 3.0.6 on a Toshiba with Windows Vista Business
The point of groups is to study — the chat features exist to help facilitate studying. We’ll be releasing better guidelines on this soon.
Does Andrew have a Quizlet account?
i think, HEY I KNO U!!!! (aniket96)
Yeah, you know you can only have 8 groups now?
Because you’re such a genius, can you make a site like Facebook or Myspace for all the people who want pms and forums back?
Yeah, but I think it would be a better idea to just put them back on here.
If it’s on another sight, there would probably be no forums about learning and academics.
Look, I don’t care about learning!!!!
That’s not good! Learning is important!
Just an Idea for when making a set. I think you should be able to put the terms in then click a button called auto fill and it fills in the definition for quick studying. You could do this by the same idea as the question mark in front of the terms but just for all of them automatically.
It would be pretty cool if you could make a Quizlet App Download…so if you don’t have access to the net, you can still study.
An application for iGoogle would be very much appreciated
Hey Andrew-
I have to say that irsmart’s idea (comment #18) is really good. It would be like a Quizlet bulliten board! I know with school everyone is getting swamped (including you) but it might be something to look into! Just putting in my two cents….
Andrew when will we get pms back?
Is there any way to link a Quizlet account to a Facebook Fan Page? Or some sort of badge that I could display on that page to link to our group’s sets? I’d love to be able to have our customers be able to access our vocab word lists from our Fan Page on FB!
Thanks!
Annie
Also, a little PR for your website…we love you guys!!
http://prestwickhouse.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-technology-for-teachers-vocabulary.html
Can there be reference tools on Quizlet?
For Example:
1) A dictionary tool
2) Possibly a translator for people who are studying different languages.
3) Maybe a calculator just in case we’re doing math.
Please Reply Andrew, I’d like to see what you’d say on this matter.
Good idea:!::)
Yeah, it is a good idea!
OK!
What do you think about the reference tools, Andrew?
coolness…
it didnt work 4 me =(
me neither!
ho iz andrew?
I’d like to point out that several privacy concerns have arisen regarding Facebook (if you want to know them in detail, read the privacy article of the Wikipedia entry about Facebook). Even if you don’t mind every inch of your online activity being tracked and profiled while on Facebook, you should at least know what you’re getting into, IMO.
In this sense, the old messaging system was actually superior. But I understand why the switch is being made: this way, all the hassles of communication are handed over to a third party that does nothing but. Personally, though, I would have preferred an organization that does not do data gathering or profile-building on its users, and I certainly will not be signing up with Facebook myself (but then, I never had a need for private messaging on Quizlet, to begin with).
Drewvt: thanks for the post and concern. Privacy is definitely an important issue with Facebook, and it can be scary what the implications of all that data being available are.
I’d like to assure you, however, that we do not store _any_ private data. All of the data pulled from Facebook on our site is done in real-time, or at most cached in memcached for 24 hours. We have no database set up to store facebook data of our users. The only thing we store is a facebook user id as a column in our users database table. We should have an FAQ on this up shortly
-Andrew
OHHHHH!!! I GET IT SHEESH SORRY ANDREW MADE THIS WEBSITE!!!! OOPS!! hey Andrew you might want to add that your name is Andrew on your profile! hahahahah :-”>
What do you think about the reference tools? Andrew?
You Quizlet beasts who created this beastly site need to bring back forums and private messages or you will lost some of your beastliness.
Hi Andrew. I was wondering if you knew when the Quizlet iPhone/iPod Touch app was going to be finished and available for download. Keep up the great work! Thanks!
since i cant reach the blog… i have to ask other spanish qiuzlet users how do u make accent marks on the keyboard?? it would be awesome to hear back thanks
Raise your hand (Or in this case, reply) if you go to Rutgers Preparatory School!
Hello,
I am a 7th grade language arts teacher using this site as a review for our state test. It is awesome! I have a question for you. Is there any way to slow down the typing game? (sorry I cannot remember what you call it) I know it will go way too fast for my 7th graders. They currently have their first year of typing. I know they would like this game if it could go slower (if I could set that myself that would be great) or even if the typing part was possible on pause? I have some learning support students, too, who would probably find that they cannot read the description before it reaches the right side of the screen. Sorry I did not know where else to put this question. Also, I saw someone mention Moodle. I have a Moodle account, as well, so if there is a way to use these in combination, let me know. Thanks you very much for your time.
When will the forums come back?
Why did you put facebook on the site?After all, you took pms away because it isn’t for socializing.I myself don’t want a facebook but that’s my opinion
um i put a group called the anything language and its gone!!! help me out here andrew! oh and join the french only group! u dnt have to be french though just put what reminds you of french
this is great, now I can go on facebook AND study at the sae time
that’s sorta cool
and i sorta agree with number 67
why did u take of pm’s? i liked those!
i like the facebook thing though
Hey can you give more feedback on the release of the ipod app?
New features are fine, but there is a serious usability issue for ambitious learners that IMHO should be tackled as soon as possible:
the current restriction to 10 groups is far too limited for anyone seriously learning a foreign language.
With 454 sets created I just need groups to sort them in some way. I would consider 25 groups as a more reasonable upper limit. Could you consider this, pleeease?
damn, this is really great i really like this website it helps me a lot, i’ve been getting 10’s in all my vocab thanks to this… and i’ve used this a lot, and i’ve only seen one little bug, maybe it does not make a difference but still, maybe you want to know
In the learn mode, after completing a set and then exiting by pressing the “Back to set page” button, if you enter the “learn mode” again, you will see that you are missing some words, those words are the ones that you “overrided, i was right” clicked. I realized that after many tries, maybe this will help making this website even better, CHEERS!
Thanks 4 saying that savannah (lil mexicana)
Thanks for this feature. I think another feature would help where you can be offline for no distractions on facebook. Thanks, anyway!
Hi Andrew. I was wondering if you knew when the Quizlet iPhone/iPod Touch app was going to be finished and available for download. I cannot wait to start using it, especially with final exams coming up. Keep up the great work! Thanks!
Hey guys!! whats up? nuttin to much here just hanging out at school being bored..lol
I HAVE FACE BOOK YAY! IM SOOOO BORED!
It sounds pretty cool.
When is private messaging coming back?
cool
dude
chill with the id
When is private messaging coming back
is it possible to unblock someone once they are blocked?
That’s a nice feature. I, too, would love it if you can somehow link Quizlet to Moodle.
wow! cool but……
MYSPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
iLike Facebook 2woo’
on the space races…. it nvr can tel wat im sayn. wat shld i do.
hey andrew do u like run quizlet or somethin bc everyone seems to no hu u r
yes.
cool this website iz really awesome
Hey Andrew are you going to make new smiley faces in the future?
wait so how do you connect facebook and quizlet?!?
HELP!
i think that it would be really good if you could make it so that you can log in with your facebook account without having to actually go on facebook because at my school facebook is blocked and since my quizlet account is through facebook, i can’t use it when i’m at school.
you should also team up with dictionary.com(or ask.com, they are really the same thing)
smart guy:Yes, I know that. What I am thinking that someone requests me is checking the spelling.