The Home Page

Last Update: February 17, 2007 | Other help documents

This page acts has a home base for all the latest activity on Quizlet. It can keep you up-to-date on everything happening all over Quizlet. This help page will introduce you to the basic elements of the site.

The Header

The header is more or less constant throughout Quizlet. In the top right corner, there are a couple of important links. Clicking on your username will take you to your user preferences page. Here, you can edit your email address, password, and other such things. The logout link will log you out and show the generic Quizlet home page. If you are using Quizlet on a public computer, such as at a library or at school, you should always log out after you are done using the site. That way, the person who uses the computer after you won't have access to your account.

Right below these two links, there is a larger link labelled Feedback. Clicking on this link will make a feedback box appear. In it, you can type a message with bugs, suggestions, or comments about Quizlet. If you ever notice ANY problem with Quizlet, please send a little note in the feedback box. No matter how big the error, there's a good chance the Quizlet developers are unaware of it. By letting them know, you vastly improve its chances of being fixed.

The Quizlet logo doubles as a link back to the home page.

The Navigation Bar

The navigation bar, right beneath the header, is universal. Wherever you are, you can always navigate to your familiar pages. The first four links are always constant. Sometimes, like on the studying pages, more useful links are added to the navigation bar that relate to the set being studied.

On the right-hand side of the navigation bar, there is a search box. Typing anything into it will take you to the search page, which searches all the data on Quizlet. You can type in words and definitions, you can type in names of groups, you can type in tags, and even search the help documents.

What are scores?

Every time you answer correctly or incorrectly on the Learn page, you log one score. If you study a lot, you'll have a lot of scores. The sets with the most scores are essentially the most studied. The users with the most total scores have studied the most.

What do the dotted lines beneath dates mean?

The dotted lines signify that you can hover your mouse over them to have the date translated into "human time." That is, instead of showing a date, it shows how long it has been since this date occured. When you hold your cursor over a date, it will show you something like "5 minutes ago" or "Yesterday." This feature is found throughout Quizlet whenever a date is shown.