How to use Flash Reference

Getting started

What Flash Reference is, a quick start, what you need, common questions, and how to get help.

• Welcome to Flash Reference How Flash Reference works for students, instructors and admins, and where to start.
• Quick start From signing up to a student studying your first deck, in eight steps.
• What you need Devices, browsers, and the LMSs and websites Flash Reference works with.
• Common questions Trials, students, cards, your LMS and privacy, answered briefly.
• Words we use What deck, mark, spaced repetition, active student and other terms mean here.
• Getting help How to reach us, what to include, and what happens after you send a request.

For students

Open a deck from your course, study it, and keep track of what you know.

• Opening a deck Open a deck from your course or a website. No account or password needed.
• Studying with flashcards Flip cards, move between them, and use hints, read aloud, shuffle and bookmarks.
• Still learning or Know it Mark each card after you flip it, and study the ones you missed.
• Multiple choice Pick each card's answer from four options instead of flipping.
• Reviewing cards that are due Spaced repetition brings each card back just before you'd forget it.
• Settings, shortcuts and accessibility Deck settings, keyboard shortcuts, and how Flash Reference works with screen readers and zoom.
• Studying on a phone Tap, swipe, and where the controls are on a small screen.
• Your progress and privacy What's saved, picking up where you left off, and what your instructor sees.
• Troubleshooting What the messages you might see mean, and what to do about them.

For instructors

Build decks, add them to your courses, and see how your students are doing.

• Signing in and your dashboard Join your team, sign in, and see how students are doing on your decks.
• Creating a deck Create, rename and delete decks, and change their settings.
• Adding and editing cards Write cards, add pictures and hints, and put cards in order.
• Adding cards in bulk Add many cards at once from a list or a spreadsheet.
• Card colors and languages Set a deck's colors, text alignment and languages.
• Choosing how students study Turn on marking, multiple choice and spaced repetition.
• Folders, collaborators and sharing Organize decks, edit them with colleagues, and share them with your organization.
• Adding a deck to your course Choose a deck from inside your LMS, and check it before students see it.
• Putting a deck on a WordPress site Copy a deck's shortcode into a WordPress page.
• Reading your results See who's studying, how they're doing, and which cards are hardest.
• Emails and announcements Emails about your decks' first student and weekly results, announcements from us, and how to turn them off.

For admins

Set up your organization, connect your LMS, manage people, and handle billing.

• Starting your free trial Sign up, what to do first, and what happens when the trial ends.
• The admin home Find your way around the admin area and read your organization's activity.
• Inviting and managing people Roles, invitations, and changing or removing someone's access.
• Your organization's decks See every deck in your organization and its results.
• Plans and billing Choose a plan, change it, and manage payments and invoices.
• Active students and your plan How active students are counted, and what happens near your plan's limit.
• Account emails The emails we send about your trial, plan and student limit, and who gets them.
• Student data and privacy What Flash Reference keeps about students, for how long, and who can see it.

Connecting your LMS

Step-by-step setup for Canvas, Moodle, D2L Brightspace, Blackboard, Schoology, other LMSs and WordPress.

• Overview Which guide to follow, where your connection details are, and how to check it works.
• Canvas Add Flash Reference to your Canvas account once, so instructors in every course can choose decks from a list.
• Canvas with LTI 1.3 Connect your institution's Canvas with LTI 1.3, by registration URL or with a developer key. Courses already connected keep working.
• Moodle Add Flash Reference to Moodle as an external tool, so teachers can add decks as activities, choosing each from a list.
• Moodle with LTI 1.3 Connect Moodle 4.1 or later with LTI 1.3, using a registration URL.
• D2L Brightspace Add Flash Reference to Brightspace as an external learning tool for your organization.
• Blackboard Learn Register Flash Reference with Blackboard Learn as an LTI tool provider.
• Schoology Add Flash Reference to Schoology as an external tool provider for your school.
• Another LMS Add Flash Reference to any LMS that supports LTI 1.1 tools.
• Another LMS with LTI 1.3 Connect any LMS that supports LTI 1.3, by hand.
• Setting up WordPress Turn on WordPress, install the plugin, and save students' progress with a site secret.