Quizlet

Quizlet

Quizlet logo since 2021
Screenshot The Quizlet website homepage
Type of site	Education
Available in	English, German, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional and Simpified), Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (BR),[1] Polish, Russian, French, Quebec French, Indonesian, Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Vietnamese
Headquarters	San Francisco, California , California
Area served	130 countries worldwide
Owner	Quizlet Inc.
Founder(s)	Andrew Sutherland
CEO	Lex Bayer
Revenue	Freemium (ads/subscriptions)
Website	quizlet.com
Registration	Optional
Launched	January 17, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-01-17)

Quizlet is a multi-national American company that provides tools for studying and learning.^[2] It was founded by Andrew Sutherland in October 2005 and released to the public in January 2007.^[3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet.^[4] As of December 2021, Quizlet has over 500 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 60 million active users.

Company history

Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced".^[5][6][7] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online.^[8] On April 15, 2008, Quizlet made its first national TV appearance when Sutherland was featured on the Mike and Juliet Show. In the following two years, Quizlet reached its 1,000,000th registered user.^[9] Until 2011, Quizlet shared staff and financial resources with the Collectors Weekly website.^[10] In 2015, Quizlet announced raising $12 million from Union Square Ventures, Costanoa Venture Capital, Altos Ventures, and Owl Ventures to expand its digital study tools and grow internationally.^[11]

In 2011, Quizlet added the ability to listen to content using text-to-speech.^[12] In August 2012, it released an app for the iPhone and iPad and shortly afterward one for Android devices.^[10] Quizlet launched a redesign in August 2016 and hired Matt Glotzbach as CEO a few months earlier in May.^[13][14] Also in 2016, Quizlet launched "Quizlet Live", a real-time online matching game where teams compete to answer all 12 questions correctly without an incorrect answer along the way.^[15] Glotzbach announced in 2018 that Quizlet would be opening offices in Denver, Colorado in 2018, announcing "a big vision at Quizlet to provide the most intelligent study tools in the world, and our expansion into Denver, a city with incredible tech ingenuity, will help us more quickly build the next generation of learning tools used by students everywhere".^[16] As of 2019, Andrew Sutherland is no longer with Quizlet or its board.^{[citation needed]} During the COVID-19 pandemic, Glotzbach announced he was opening Quizlet's premium service, Quizlet Teacher, for free to all users who have an account registered as a teacher.^[17] As of August 1, 2022, Learn and Test modes became part of Quizlet Plus, meaning they are no longer free.^[18] Later that year Quizlet announced a new CEO, Lex Bayer .^[19]

Study modes and games

As a memorization tool, Quizlet lets registered users create sets of terms and definitions customized for their own needs.^[20] These sets of terms can then be accessible to students by studying a variety of modes.^[21][22]

Flash Cards

This mode is similar to paper flashcards. Users are shown a flashcard for each term, which they can flip over by clicking, using the arrow keys, or the space bar.^[23] The user has the option for the face of the card to be an image, a word, or both. Users can also shuffle flashcards.

Learn

In this mode, users answer flashcard, multiple choice, and written questions repeatedly. New words from the set are slowly introduced, and words already answered will return in the form of written questions until the word is identified correctly repeatedly.

Write

In this mode, users are shown a term or definition and must type the term or definition that goes with what is shown. After entering their answer, they see if their answer was correct, and can choose to override the automatic grading and count their answer as right if needed. This mode was originally the "Learn" mode before being replaced by the newer version above.^[24][25]

Spell

In this mode, the term is read out loud and users must type in the term with the correct spelling. If the user gets every answer correct, they are rewarded with a video of a monster truck doing a jump, wheelie, and flip.^[23] This game was previously known as "Speller".

Match

In this mode, users are presented with scattered terms, with each term having a corresponding scattered definition. Users drag terms on top of their associated definitions to remove them and try to clear all terms in the fastest time possible. On smaller screens, this is replaced with a similar mode, except that the terms and definitions are presented in a grid, with users having to click on a term/definition and then click its corresponding term/definition.^[23] Match was previously attributed as "Scatter", though the game was the same.

Gravity

In this mode, definitions scroll vertically down the screen in the shape of asteroids. The user must type the term that goes with the definition before it reaches the bottom. Occasionally, an asteroid will be red. If the user misses a red asteroid twice, the game is over. It is one of the 'Play' study modes.^[26] Gravity was adapted from a previous game, Space Race. The user can pick the level of difficulty and game type.

An exploit for this game is to put it on "starred mode" and select one word for starred mode by looking at the cards, and then clicking on the star-shaped button. Going onto the game and starting it with starred mode still on, the user will only have one word, and can thus copy & paste the same word over and over again, resulting in unnaturally high scores. However, games on starred mode will not appear on the leaderboards.

Gravity is no longer available; Quizlet cites a lack of use for this removal. Going forward, Quizlet states that it aims to be "making the core activities that we know most students use more engaging and efficient".^[19]

Live

In this mode, a Quizlet teacher begins a Live session, and players can join by entering the code shown on the teacher's screen. The teacher can choose whether to assign students into teams of 3-4 players or have them play individually. The first player or team to answer twelve question wins. If the players are split into teams, only one player will have the correct answer for any given question; otherwise, each player will have to choose from the correct option and three other term/definition from the set for each question.

Controversy

Students on Quizlet may upload information that can be used to cheat within the classroom. In a survey at a High School in Orlando, a student was quoted saying "If someone put $100 in front of you, would you take it?", referring to the ease with which students can use platforms like Quizlet to cheat on schoolwork.^[27][28]

As of September 2022, Quizlet's website has an "Honor Code" requiring all users of the website to not misuse the platform for academic cheating.^[29]

See also

• Chegg
• Course Hero
• Kahoot!
• Wordly Wise

References

External links

• Official website

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