Daily review

My Flashcards opens on today's pile: how many cards are ready and about how long they will take. Start review opens the review room, which shows one card at a time and nothing else.

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One card at a time

1. The question. Your child answers it in their head first. A Need a clue? button gives a nudge if the card has one.
2. The answer. A tap turns the card over. On a Type it in card your child types the answer first; on a Gaps card they fill the blank.
3. How did it go? Your child picks one of three answers.

Answer	What it means	When the card comes back
Tricky	"I didn't get it."	Again at the end of this review, and again tomorrow.
Got it	"I got it, with some thought."	Tomorrow the first time, then six days later, then longer each time.
Easy	"I knew it straight away."	In four days the first time, then ten days later, then longer each time.

Each button shows the real next gap before your child taps it, such as "tomorrow" or "in 6 days". On a phone, swiping right means Got it and swiping left means Tricky.

After a card is answered, it can show the why and, where the topic is on the curriculum map, a link to open it there.

How the schedule works

This is spaced repetition: each time your child remembers a card, the gap before the next review grows. A card answered well a few times is soon weeks apart.

• Nothing to configure. The schedule is set by your child's own answers.
• No gap is longer than 90 days. Every card still in practice is seen at least once a term.
• Everything due is shown. The pile is not cut off at a fixed number, so the count on the page is the real one.
• Cards from one lesson are mixed up. Related cards do not arrive back to back, which makes recall harder in a useful way.
• Decks from the Atlas arrive gradually. Adopting a large deck adds ten cards a day, not the whole deck at once.

Small mercies

• Undo. A wrong tap can be undone for ten minutes.
• Not today. From the ⋯ More menu your child can skip a card until tomorrow without it counting as right or wrong. After three days of skipping the same card, the page asks whether to put it away.
• Offline. Reviews done without a connection are saved and sent when the connection returns.

Locking in and putting away

A child should not have to review a card for ever. There are two ways a card leaves daily review, and both can be reversed.

Locked in (mastered). When a card has been answered well over a long stretch, Heddy asks: lock it in, or keep practising? Your child chooses. A locked-in card stops coming round but keeps its star in the Sky. Your child can also lock in a card themselves with I know this cold, and bring it back with Practise it again.

Mastery is never automatic. It is always your child's decision.

Put away. Your child can put a card away because it is too simple, not their topic, or looks wrong. A card put away is resting, not deleted, and Bring it back returns it to review the next day with its progress intact. A whole deck can be put away and brought back in the same way.

Both live under Tidy up my cards at the bottom of My Flashcards, where your child can also search their cards and act on several at once.

When a card keeps slipping

If your child gets the same card wrong several times, more drilling is not the answer. Heddy points it out and offers three choices: ask about it, put it away, or leave it for now.

Every card in your child's own decks also has a Study with Professor … button. It opens a session with that exact card on the table, so the professor can teach it again a different way.

Points

Reviewing cards earns Heddy points. The first reviews of the day are worth the most, and later ones the same day are worth less, so a short daily review is rewarded more than one long session.

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