Yes! You can do it yourself, actually. Go to your preferences page and customize. You can always go back to this page by clicking on the 'prefs' link in the top-right corner of the page.
No. If everyone could change their username, people would do it all the time and it would be impossible to keep track of any one person.
That currently isn't something Quizlet can do, sorry. The reason is about complexity - if we added that feature, the Quizlet interface would be harder to understand. And while it would be useful to many users, it would be confusing and unnecessary to the vast majority. So our current thinking is to leave it out.
There are a few ways to work around this problem, but of course they aren't perfect substitutes. A common strategy on Quizlet has extra information placed in parentheses, such as this French to English example: les commodités (f) → the amenities (g). When you study with the Learn mode or Test mode, you'll have the option to "Ignore stuff in parentheses." If you check this box, you don't have to type in the (f) or (g) if you don't want to. This strategy can work beyond just language genders too, for things like a three-way translation between Japanese, English, and German.
No. Quizlet is about studying, first and foremost. That would be a distraction
Sort of. You can use tags. On the Create/Edit set page, add a common tag for all your sets that you want to group together. Then look on your dashboard, and you'll see a list of the tags you've used. If you click on one, a fold-out list will appear with all your sets with that tag.
Another solution, if you collaborate with others, is to use a different group for your different kinds of sets. The home page and My Groups page will break down your different sets by group for you.
Not really. The term and definition boxes only take plain text. The problem with special formatting (font sizes, colors, subscripts, etc) is that they require HTML code to display properly. When you use the Learn and Test (written sections) study modes, they require you to type an answer. To get a correct answer, you'd have to type the HTML code as well!
There's also a factor of simplicity involved. By restricting terms and definitions to plain text, the Quizlet interface is streamlined and quick to use.
Some basic formatting characters (including superscripts and subscripts) are available in the symbols box (See FAQ). Due to limitations in HTML, the ones listed are the only ones possible. Sorry.
All tags are "normalized." We do this to make it easier to find stuff on Quizlet. If people write similar tags that aren't the same punctuation-wise, but really refer to the same thing, this system helps all of the data get grouped together. Thus, the tag "brainflare" is the same as "BrainFlare." We strip out special characters for the same reason - to minimize the differences between different peoples' writing.
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