Flashcards
How tutor-made flashcards, the Atlas of pre-built decks, and daily spaced review work together to make learning stick.
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Flashcards turn what your child actually worked through in a session into something they come back to and remember — a short daily review, spaced out over time so it sticks. They live in your child's own study home, at My Flashcards.
Nothing here is a worksheet or a test. A card's question is written by the tutor your child just spoke with, in that tutor's own voice, from the exact thing they worked on together — never generated from a document, and never handed over without your child working through the material first.
Where cards come from
There's exactly one way a card enters your child's own collection on purpose: a real tutoring session.
- At the natural end of a session, your child sees a small "✨ Make my cards from today" prompt above the chat box. One tap, and the tutor turns what was just covered into a short set of cards.
- Mid-session, a tutor may also offer to lock something in on the spot — after your child has actually got it, never before.
- Your child can ask for a card any time with words like "can you make me a flashcard for this?" — including a single card, if that's genuinely all they want.
A card always has a front (a question your child has to answer in their head first — never a multiple-choice guess) and a back (the tutor's full explanation, in the same metaphor used during the session). Many cards also carry a gentle hint that scaffolds recall without giving the answer away, and some carry a short "why" for a curious child who wants more than the answer.
The tutors never convert a document straight into cards
If your child uploads school notes or a marked test and asks for instant flashcards, the tutor works through the material with them first — walking each point, diagnosing what went wrong on a test question — and only then offers cards. The friction is deliberate: cards come from understanding, not from a shortcut.
Daily review
My Flashcards shows what's due today with an honest time estimate — usually a minute or two. Each card:
- Asks the question first ("Try it in your head first") — no peeking at the answer.
- Reveals the full answer on a tap.
- Asks "How did it go?" — Tricky, Got it, or Easy.
That grade quietly sets when the card comes back: a tricky card resurfaces later the same session; an easy one earns a longer rest before it's due again. This is spaced repetition — the same idea behind most serious memory research — working invisibly in the background. Nothing to configure; the review room just gets shorter over time as cards "graduate" to longer and longer gaps.
Review opens as its own focused space — no menus, nothing else on screen — so your child can just get through today's small stack and be done.
The Atlas — pre-built decks
Not every child starts a session ready to make their own cards, and that's fine: the Atlas (from My Flashcards → Explore the Atlas) is a library of ready-made decks the aitutors.me team has built directly from the UK KS3 curriculum map, across Maths, Chemistry, Biology and more.
Your child can:
- Preview a deck card-by-card before deciding anything — no commitment just to look.
- Adopt a whole deck, or just one card that catches their eye, into their own collection.
- Study it live — jump straight into a session with the professor who teaches that subject, using that exact card as the starting point.
Their Sky — a personal collection
Every card a child has made or adopted collects into their own Sky — a small star chart on My Flashcards, one star per card, clustered by topic. It's there to make "everything I've learned" feel like something real and theirs, not a database.
Cards a child is proud of can also be shared to the Shared Sky, a moderated, first-name-only pool other children can discover and adopt from — reviewed before it ever goes live, and never showing more than a first name and year group.
Asking a tutor to go deeper on one card
If a card isn't sticking, your child doesn't have to puzzle it out alone: a "Study with [tutor]" button sits on every card in their own collection. It opens a fresh conversation with that exact card already on the table, so the tutor can re-teach it properly rather than your child just re-reading the answer.
Common questions
Do flashcards cost anything extra, or use up session time? No — they're included, and making cards happens at the natural end of a session your child was already having.
Can I see what's on my child's cards? Cards are your child's own study material, the same way their tutoring conversations are; the session that produced them appears in your parent dashboard's usual session summaries.
What if a card is wrong or confusing? Ask the tutor about it directly in a session — tutors can rewrite or retire a card the conversation shows is unclear.
Is anything from the Shared Sky unsafe or unmoderated? Every shared card passes the same safety checks as ordinary tutoring conversation before it's visible to anyone else, and it only ever shows a first name and year group — never a surname, photo, or way to contact another family.
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