Hey! We have lots of improvements to announce today! In random order:

We’ve started a donations page to let Quizlet users who appreciate our free service to donate towards future improvements to Quizlet. If you find Quizlet useful, please consider donating $10 or more. Donating will also remove all advertising from your account for 1 year. You also get this cool button on your user page:

Improvements to Space Race:

• Words move a little bit slower
• The game now ends when you run out of lives instead of when you miss two words in a row.
• The last answer before the game ends is now displayed.

Your Facebook friends list is now refreshed at regular intervals.

Users who are 13 but were born in the first few months of 1996 were allowed to sign up but not use the site. This is fixed, and we apologize for this annoying problem.

The accents bar now remembers when you turn it off on the Make Flashcards page.

Applications to groups now send group administrators the message the user included in their application.

We’ve updated our Terms of Service to clarify what is and is not acceptable content on Quizlet. We strongly recommend all Quizlet users take a look at this document.

We’re improving our Frequency Asked Questions section and opening the FAQs up to user suggestions, so that users can now add their own information to an FAQ.

We have a lot of projects we’re making progress on. Here are some of the things we’re focusing on:

• The Quizlet iPhone app is making slow and steady progress. It will work offline, and sync with your Quizlet account to download all of your sets. It’s going to be worth the wait.
• Improvements to speed and usefulness of the Search/Content Finding functionality on the site.
• Continuing to improve the Facebook environment on Quizlet, and making it easier to invite and find your friends on Quizlet.
• A top-secret project in collaboration with MIT. You’ll hear more in the next month.

And of course, we’re always working on keeping the site speedy and reliable as Quizlet grows. I almost forgot to mention that there are now more than 400,000 registered Quizlet users, who create more than 100,000 flashcards every day. That’s a lot of studying!

And don’t forget to follow us on twitter!

Do these things sound good? Your donation will make them happen faster!

Last thing: We’re looking for a summer intern to work on these projects in San Francisco. More information is coming soon. Interested? Email jobs@domainisobvious.com

Quizlet has many teacher-friendly features. You can use it to:

• Give your students a study tool that’s both powerful and fun, encouraging them to learn.
• Share study materials online with your classes.
• Generate photocopy-ready flashcards or tests for in-class distribution.
• Host a group where your students can create and discuss study materials for your class.
• Notify students by email when you’ve posted new study materials.
• See what other teachers are teaching in your subject area.

If you want to get rid of ads on Quizlet completely (surf Quizlet ad-free), you can do so by donating $10 or more to Quizlet using this page: http://quizlet.com/donate (note that you must be logged in to Quizlet at the time you donate for this to work).

To share your flashcards with others, you must change your set’s availability. To do so, click “Edit” on the set page. You can choose to make your set available to “Everyone,” “Just Me,” or “Only Certain People.” If you’d like to allow your classmates to edit your sets, change the Editors option from “Just Me” to “Only Certain People.”

Quizlet is a free service and anyone over 13 years old with a valid email address can create an account. Visit http://quizlet.com/sign_up and fill in the required fields – username, password, email address, and birthday. Read and agree to the terms of service and click the “Sign Up” button. A confirmation email will be sent to your email address. Without this email, your account will not be activated, so it is important that you use a valid email address.

It may take time to receive the confirmation email, so be patient. If you do not receive it within 24 hours, please send us a message on our feedback page (http://quizlet.com/feedback).

More Related Questions:

I entered in my wrong birthday and I’m actually over 13. Can you restore my account?

We cannot make any exceptions or restore your account. If you made a mistake when you initially input your age information, we cannot change that in our system.

Groups allow you to study with your friends and classmates, discuss answers, and share flash card sets.

You can join most existing groups by simply clicking join from the group’s page. To join a private group, you must either apply or get a password from the group’s creator or manager.

If you’re looking for a specific group (e.g. your class section), ask the group creator to send you a link. Otherwise, type the name of the group or the user who created it into the search box.  Groups will show up in the right hand side of the search results page.

To create your own group, click the “My Groups” link at the top of the page, then select “Create a new group.”

First, give your group a name and type a brief description for other users to see. Next, you need to decide who you want to join your group. You can make your group accessible to anybody, only users with a password (which you assign), or only users who you and other group managers approve.

Once you have selected your accessibility options, you can disable live discussion or prevent users from adding sets to the group by checking the boxes at the bottom of the page. When you are done, select “Create Group” and you will be redirected to the group’s main page.

More Related Questions:

How do I add people to my group?

Members join the groups themselves. If you want to tell people about your group, you can send them a link or invite them.

How can I tell when I’ve been accepted into a group?

When you have been accepted into a group, it will show up on the list on your dashboard.

How do I leave a group?

You can leave a group by clicking the “Leave Group” link at the top of the group’s page.