Sophia Bender Koning
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‹ Meet the teamSophia listens to Quizlet’s millions of students and teachers and keeps Quizlet focused on providing an amazing user experience. She has degrees from Columbia University and the University of Chicago, and she attended Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, NY.
Let them eat cake: A Quizlet Success Story
Rudy Lacosse introduced his classmates in his Masters' program to Quizlet and helped all of the ace their exams this year. To show their appreciation, his class surprised him this awesome Quizlet… read more ›
Visiting a Quizlet Power School
We're lucky to have Quizlet-loving teachers like Charlotte Cassidy, a computer teacher at San Ramon Valley Christian Academy in Danville, CA (a private K-8 school in the East Bay), who invited the… read more ›
Quizlet is a finalist for the ROE awards
Quizlet has been nominated for the ROE (Return on Education) Innovation Award in the learning platform category at the ASU/GSV Education Innovation Summit. As a learning platform, we're changing … read more ›
How to learn a language from your news feed (and win a Facebook hackathon)
This week at HackEd 2.0, the Quizlet team built an app to teach you new words by translating a word from a friend's status to unlock your phone. Try it out! We think this app can have a huge impac… read more ›
Quizlet visits (and learns from) an ESL class
This week, the Quizlet team visited the International Education Center at DVC, an ESL program that prepares students to enter Diablo Valley Community College. We observed a class in the computer lab u… read more ›
Thanks to the students and teachers at the International Education Center at DVC for showing us how they use Quizlet for ESL classes!
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Live in SF? Get the Quizlet team in your classroom!
If you're a Quizlet user in San Francisco (or the Bay Area), we want to hear from you! We're doing a series of classroom visits to hear directly from students and teachers about how they use Qu… read more ›
Preview Quizlet's new version of Flashcards!
Quizlet's new study mode is flashcards as you've never seen them before. Check it out and tell us what you think! Here's the new version of flashcards on Quizlet Compare it with the old one … read more ›
The Big (and Small) Picture: Our New Responsive Design for Quizlet
Another day, another strangely shaped Android device. Rather than give into the chaos, we decided to fix it. We want to provide every Quizlet user with the same beautifully simple user experience … read more ›
Class Discussion and Collaborative Learning on Quizlet
The decision to remove class discussion was definitely a hard one. We apologize for the collateral damage of discussions that had been useful. Here's our reasoning and what we hope to do in the fu… read more ›
Sophia says... We're thinking of adding Login with Google (like Login with Facebook). Would you use that?
352Sophia says... The Quizlet app now has full landscape support to make it easier to use on an iPad. Update your app!
98Sophia says... New iPhone update! Classes, Study Feed, and Profiles are now available in the app!
45Calling all SF Bay Area Quizlet Users
At Quizlet, we always test what we build with real students and teachers to make sure that what we build solves real problems. This January, we're cooking up some awesome new things and we'd like … read more ›