Quizlet

2011 Quick Recap

2011 was a big year for Quizlet. Usage continued to skyrocket: more study content was added in 2011 alone than in the previous 4 years combined! And there are now 6 million students and teachers using Quizlet each month; over 9 million study sets; and almost 300 million study terms.

Those are huge numbers and humbling for all of us in the Quizlet office. We still try to wrap our heads around the idea that there are Quizlet users in literally every country on earth!

Quizlet started back in 2005 when Andrew, our founder, built a study tool to help with his high school french class. He continued to work on Quizlet through high school and then college at MIT. Two years ago we started building a team to work on the site full-time while Andrew continued to be a full-time student and full-time entrepreneur. This summer Andrew decided to forego his senior year of college and work full-time on Quizlet. We’re now a 10-person team based in San Francisco; we even have a real office!

We love hearing from users (thank you to the 20,000 of you that have written in) and have a lot planned for 2012. But first, a quick recap of what happened in 2011…

We launched text-to-speech audio in 18 languages, everything from Spanish and French, to Arabic and Turkish. Next we set about integrating it into Quizlet study modes and games. For our new study mode, Speller, audio was a core compenent. (You can read about the making-of Speller here.)

Next up was translating Quizlet into 9 languages and counting. This involved working with a core group of dedicated Quizlet volunteers. We now have Quizlet availabe in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Throughout the site we continued to make improvements like an improved home page, and better create and edit tools. We also worked hard to improve printing, and allow sorting and embedding of Quizlet content.

On the technical side, we improved page load times by 50% and launched an updated API with oAuth2, SSL, and read/write capability for the dozens of 3rd party developers building Quizlet-powered mobile apps.

2012 and Beyond

Thank you for using Quizlet and stay tuned for more new features in 2012!

- The Quizlet Team

We’re pleased to announce that the talented Anand Sharma has joined the Quizlet team as Design Director.

He joins us from Los Angeles where he previously ran his own design agency, Dragon Interactive, and worked on projects like theory11. He also has previous startup experience and is someone Andrew, Quizlet’s founder, has known for many years.

Anand epitomizes pixel-perfect design and he’s already started work making Quizlet look and feel awesome for users. Look for big changes over the coming months!

(Real-life photo of Anand’s desk at Quizlet.)

Meet our new FAQ search bar.

We built a new simple way for you to search all the info that we’ve complied in our Help center. Thanks to Dave and Anand for putting this together!

Basically the idea is that instead of scrolling through all the FAQs to find an answer, you can start typing your question right into the search bar and it will begin to auto-select applicable FAQs.

Say you want to learn how to create a group on Quizlet. Just type your question into the search bar and we’ll give you suggestions.

Click on the correct FAQ with your mouse or scroll through the options with your up/down keyboard and click Enter.

If you have questions or suggestions that aren’t answered here, or just want to say thanks, feel free to drop us a line at Feedback.

You can now do a whole lot more with Quizlet-powered mobile apps.

With apps marked as “Featured” on our mobile page you can:

• Upload sets from your phone to Quizlet
• View and edit private sets
• Join and leave groups
• Edit Quizlet sets on your phone (so when you log into Quizlet at school or home, your changes are already there on Quizlet!)

Currently there are 4 iPhone/iPad apps and 1 Android app that have these new features (see below) and many more on the way.

iPhone & iPad Apps

Flashcards Sync

By: Jason Lustig
Price: $0.99
Currently provides the most robust integration with Quizlet. Automatically sync sets and groups. There are three different study modes, including the Leitner system.

Flashcards Deluxe

By: OrangeOrApple.com
Price: $3.99
Syncs private or public sets and groups. Provides a single powerful study mode that lets you mark cards with know and don’t know.

A+ FlashCards Pro

By: ADS Software Group
Price: Free for the next month (normally $4.99)
Features a study mode with 3 buckets — “Know,” “Don’t Know,” and “Not Sure” — and spaced reptition to help you remember your cards for longer.

Flashcards++

By: Jason Lustig
Price: $0.99
Sync sets and groups. Several study modes including the Leitner system and spaced repetition to help you remember your cards for longer.

Android Apps

Quiz Your Brain

By: Matthew Moses
Price: Free
Syncs your Quizlet flashcards and lets you view, edit or delete public and private sets. Features a study mode that lets you flip through cards in your sets.

Happy 2012! We’re excited to announce that Quizlet in Korean is finally here. Thanks to everyone who offered to help with this translation – we were blown away by the number of native speakers that volunteered to help! Special thanks to youngster2137 (main translator) and SeungHYUNlee (reviewer).

To change the language to Korean, scroll down to the footer and use the language dropdown in the bottom left corner.

Don’t forget to try Korean text-to-speech audio on any Korean sets. Check it out with this set on Korean days of the week.

Quizlet’s homepage for logged-in users just got a major overhaul to make it more personalized, easy to use, and visually appealing.

As a reminder, signing up for an account is free and lets you create your own sets and track your progress on Quizlet.

Recent Activity

The main screen now displays the last 5 sets you either studied or created. Simply click on one of the cards to be taken directly to that page.

Better yet, you can jump right back into your last study mode. In the example above, clicking on “U.S. State Capitals” takes you to the study set but clicking on “Continue Scatter” takes you straight to Scatter for U.S. State Capitals.

To view all sets you have created or studied, click on “See past sets” in the bottom righthand corner to go to your Dashboard.

Group Activity

Directly below the main screen is the Group Activity section. This displays all of your Groups, as well as the most recently studied sets within each group.

Random Missed Terms

Now personalized! Previously the Random Term was, well, random! We pulled a random term from anywhere on Quizlet. Now the Random Term comes from sets you have already studied.

Questions? Ideas on how to make Quizlet even better? Write to us at Feedback.