Study with friends on Letternerd
Letternerd is a free place to play and make social games, and one of the best things to make is revision. Turn your own notes into a quiz, revise it on a spaced schedule and share it with the people on your course. It runs in the browser, and nobody needs an account to join.
Revising alone is easy to put off. Revising with a group gives you a reason to turn up: a shared set and a quiz to play together, without anyone seeing your flash-card ratings.
How a study group uses it
- Make a set from your own materialPaste your notes, upload a file or give a link and Letternerd builds a quiz from it, or write the questions yourself, one per line. It is your material, so it is the thing you will actually be examined on.
- Everyone revises on their own scheduleEach person gets flash cards that come back sooner when they are hard and later when they are easy. Your pace is yours; nobody sees your answers.
- Play it togetherWhen you want to compete rather than drill, host the set as a live quiz. Everyone answers the same questions at once, and the reason is shown after each one.
What the group can and cannot see
Your flash-card ratings are yours alone, and your review streak is shown to friends only if you turn that on. In a live quiz the room sees the scores, as in any game. The privacy policy has the detail.
What to check
A quiz built from your notes is only as accurate as the notes and the model that read them. Letternerd shows the reason beside an answer where there is one. Treat it as practice for the material, and check the facts against your course.
Study sessions to play with your group
Four ways to revise together instead of alone. Every answer comes with the reason it is right, so the group is not just agreeing with whoever sounds most certain.
- Check Your Answer3–12 players · 20 minAnswer alone, see how the room split, argue about it, then answer again. The second answer is the one that counts.
- Recall Drill2–12 players · 12 minFast retrieval practice with the whole table. Every answer comes with the reason it is right.
- How Sure Are You2–12 players · 14 minAnswer, then say how confident you are. Being wrong costs less than being certain and wrong.
- Teach Your Piece4–8 players · 22 minEveryone is given one part of the material and has to make the rest of the table understand it.
Questions students ask
Can I use Letternerd to revise for an exam?
Yes. Make a set from your own notes or write your own questions, revise it as flash cards that come back on a spaced schedule, and host it as a live quiz for friends who are revising the same thing.
How do I turn my notes into a quiz?
Open Learn, choose to make a set from your notes, a file or a link, and Letternerd builds a quiz from what it reads. Or write the questions yourself, one per line with the answer after a dash, a bar or a tab. Either way you can host the set as a live quiz for friends.
Can my friends see how well I am doing?
Your flash-card ratings are yours alone, and your review streak is shown to friends only if you turn that on. In a live quiz the room sees the scores, as in any game.
How reliable are quizzes made from my notes?
They are only as good as the notes and the model reading them, so check them before you rely on them. Where a question has a reason attached, it is shown with the answer, which makes mistakes easier to spot.
Can we play a revision set as a live quiz?
Yes. Host the set from Learn and everyone plays the same questions at once, with the reason shown after each answer. It needs at least four questions with four different answers, because the wrong options are other questions’ answers.
Looking for something lighter once the work is done? Try trivia, party games or icebreakers. More answers are on the full FAQ.