Revise with friends on Letternerd
Letternerd lets you turn your own notes into a quiz, revise it on a spaced schedule and share it with the people on your course. It is free, 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, a shared exam date and friends who can see that the circle is working, without seeing your scores.
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.
- Pin it to a study circleA circle is a private group of friends. Pin the set to it, add the exam date, and everyone sees it on the circle’s shelf. Reviews are never scheduled past the exam.
- 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.
- Add questions for each otherAny member can add a question to the set. It shows who wrote it and that nobody has checked it against a source, and anyone can flag it as wrong.
- Quiz the circleWhen you want to compete rather than drill, play 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
A circle sees counts: how many members have started a set and how many revised today. It names the cards the group finds hard only once at least three members have rated them. It never shows who got what wrong, and the author of a flagged question is told it was flagged but not by whom. 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, and a question a classmate wrote can be wrong. Letternerd marks friends’ questions as unchecked, shows the reason beside an answer where there is one, and lets anyone flag a mistake. 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 share it with a circle of friends who are revising the same thing. Every set can carry an exam date, so reviews are never scheduled past the day.
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.
What is a study circle?
A circle is a private group of friends. Pin a revision set to it and everyone sees it on the circle’s shelf. Each person revises on their own schedule, and the circle sees one shared exam date.
Can my friends see how well I am doing?
Not by name. A circle sees counts only, such as how many members have started a set and how many revised today. The cards the group finds hard are named only once at least three members have rated them, and no one’s name is attached to a score.
Can friends add their own questions to a set?
Yes. Any member of the circle can add questions to a pinned set. Each one shows who wrote it and that it has not been checked against a source, and anyone can flag a question as wrong. The author is told it was flagged, but not by whom.
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. Questions added by friends are marked as unchecked.
Can we play a revision set as a live quiz?
Yes. Use Quiz the circle on a pinned set 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.