The Set Page

Last Update: April 27, 2007 | Other help documents

This page acts as home base for a set. Think of a set as a deck of flash cards. It contains many words and definitions that are grouped together into one pile. From this page, you can do many things with your set. You can print it out, you can study it in different ways, you can combine it with other sets, and you can edit or delete it.

Studying Tips

  1. Don't make sets with more than fifty words. While Quizlet has no rules against it, it is strongly advised to make sets with fifty words or less. If you have more, you will see each less-often during studying and they won't "stick" as well. If you have more than fifty words to study, break them into two or more sets. Smaller chunks of words are easier to manage, and more fun to use, because starting out is less daunting.
  2. Get familiar first. Before you get started in the studying mode, familiarize yourself with the words you are about to be studying. It is important to familiarize yourself because you'll have a vague idea of what words are involved in the set. If you are the creator of the set and have just typed in all the words, you're probably familiar enough. If you haven't typed them in, however, you'll have no idea what to expect when you start studying. You don't have to know every definition, but you should have an idea of what the words are.

The Terms box

This box shows a list of all the words in your set. It lists the term and definition of each word, in the order they were entered. If there are a lot of words in your set, it will have a scroll bar.

Right next to each term and definition, there is a tiny icon. This is for looking up words on Answers.com. Clicking on this button will open Answers.com in a new window. Answers.com has a dictionary, a thesaurus, a translator, and can pull data from Wikipedia and other sources. If you want, for example, to see the word in real-life context, you can click on the Answers.com button and find out all about it. If the item is a phrase or something Answers.com has no data on, it will perform a google search for your word.

How Quizlet determines Top Users and Most Missed words

Quizlet only remembers the right and wrong answers you log in the Learn mode. The Familiarize and Test modes do not count toward these totals.

Discussion

The Discuss box is an exciting feature of Quizlet. Each set has its own discussion box. It allows users of the same set to chat with each other. For example, if you are using someone else's set and notice an error in it, you could leave them a message informing them of the error. You can also click Pop out to make a separate pop-up window that you can watch even while you're studying or working on other sets.

The Discuss box is live. That means it works just like instant messenging. Any messages you type in to the Discuss box will appear (almost) instantly on the screens of everyone else who is looking at the same page.

The Discuss box also facilitates the use of smilies. The following is a list of smilies available for use: