Flashcards

Flashcards turn what your child has learned into something they come back to and remember. Each day a small pile of cards is due. Your child answers each one in their head, checks it, and says how it went. That answer decides when the card returns: tomorrow if it was hard, weeks later once it is secure.

They live in your child's own study home, under My Flashcards.

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The short version

• Cards come from four places. A tutor writes them at the end of a session, your child makes them from their own notes, your child adopts a ready-made deck from the Atlas, or your child adopts a card another pupil shared.
• Review takes a few minutes a day. The page shows how many cards are due and roughly how long they will take.
• The schedule runs itself. There is nothing to set up. Cards your child knows well come round less and less often.
• Your child decides when a card is finished. They can lock in a card they know cold, or put one away, and bring either back later.
• You can see the activity, and the cards themselves if you want them. See For parents.

Where cards come from

Source	What happens	Read more
A tutoring session	At the end of a session the professor offers to turn what was just covered into a short set of cards, in that professor's own voice.	Making cards
Your child's own notes	Your child pastes notes, adds a photo or a PDF, and a professor reads it and drafts up to eighteen cards. Your child can also write a card by hand.	Making cards
The Atlas	A library of more than 500 ready-made decks, from Year 7 to GCSE, plus 11+ and competition decks.	The Atlas
The Shared Sky	Cards and revision packs other pupils have shared. A person checks every one before it appears.	The Shared Sky

What a card looks like

Every card has a front, which asks a question your child must answer from memory, and a back, which gives the answer and the reasoning. Many cards also carry a clue that helps recall without giving the answer away, and a short why for a child who wants more than the answer.

There are four kinds:

Kind	What your child does
Basic	Reads the question, answers in their head, taps to check.
Both ways	The same fact asked in both directions, as two cards. Useful for vocabulary and definitions.
Type it in	Types the answer before seeing it.
Gaps	Fills in a missing word or words in a sentence.

Cards never use multiple choice in daily review. The point is to recall the answer, not to recognise it.

Their Sky

Every card your child has made or adopted appears in their Sky, a small star chart on My Flashcards with one star per card. Cards they have locked in shine brighter. It is there to make "everything I have learned" something your child can see.

The pages in this section

• Making cards — in a session, from notes, by hand, or by import.
• Daily review — the review room, the three answers, how the schedule works, and locking in or putting away a card.
• Practice and practice runs — Quiz, Match and Listen, timed practice runs, and revising towards an exam date.
• The Atlas — the ready-made decks, including GCSE and the "What does your school teach?" panel.
• The Shared Sky — sharing a card, how it is checked, and taking it down.
• For parents — what you can see, reminders, what needs a subject seat, and your child's data.

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