Flashcard Set

Last modified by Carina Enke on 16.01.2024

KB_Lernkartei.png  A flashcard set is a tool to help learners acquire and consolidate knowledge. Specifically, questions about learning content will be noted on flashcards, which are then presented to the learner to answer them. The answers have to be assessed by the learners themselves via predefined answers.

Depending on the correctness of the answer, the card will be moved a stack forward or backwards - until all cards have been worked through. For a selection of specific flashcards, filters will be available.

Content

Usage: Learners' View

Overview

In the upper area of the course element, you will find the various Cardboxes of the flashcard set. The number of boxes is determined by the creator of the flashcard set. The number in the right corner represents the total number of flashcards in the cardbox.

Below the cardboxes, it is possible to configure settings for learning with the flashcard set. For example, you can choose a category, set a level of difficulty, or determine the order of the flashcards.

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Functions for users

Learning with flashcard sets

To learn with a flashcard set, proceed as follows:

How to do that?
  1. Open the course element Flashcard set.
  2. In the upper area, you will find various cardboxes.
  3. If you start learning, only the first cardbox will be highlighted in blue, as all available flashcards will be in this box. If cards have already been answered correctly and moved to subsequent boxes, they will also be highlighted in blue and presented while learning.

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4. If necessary, select a category, set a level of difficulty, and/or determine the order of the flashcards.

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5. Click on Learn to start the learning process.

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6. The first flashcard will open.

7. Enter your answer in the text field Your answer and click on Respond.

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8. A sample solution will be shown. Now you have the following two options to assess your answer:

  • Mark answer as correct: Correctly answered cards will automatically be placed in the following cardbox, where they can be reprocessed.

  • Mark answer as incorrect: Incorrectly answered cards will remain in the cardbox. They can be reprocessed at any time.

9. Subsequently, the respective next flashcard will automatically be displayed until all available flashcards have been processed.

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Add notes

To add a note to your flashcard, proceed as follows: 

How to do that?
  1. Open the course element Flashcard set.
  2. Start a cardbox as usual.
  3. A flashcard will open.

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4. Click on Note.

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5. A text field to enter the note will open. Notes will only be visible to you personally. However, they will not automatically be displayed when reopening the flashcard. To show notes, click on Note (see step 4).

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Configuration: Authors' View

In the course editor

The following functions are available in the course editor:

Add a course element flashcard set

Click to open instructions on how to add a course element ...

To integrate a course element into your course, proceed as follows:

1

Open the course you want to edit.

Use the pencil icon at the top of the page to open the editing mode.

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2

Select a course element from the menu on the right.

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3

In the new window, you can define the position of the new course element within your course structure (left navigation pane). The available positions are marked with an insert icon.

To insert the new course element into an existing substructure, you need to open the substructure by clicking on the small triangle symbol next to its title. The area will open and you will again see insert icons at the positions which are available.

Click on the insert icon at the desired position within the structure. The selected area will be highlighted.

Confirm your choice with Insert course element.

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4

The element will be inserted into the course structure at the selected position.

Depending on the course element, you have to make additional configurations or add content in order to complete the configuration.

For these changes to take effect, you must publish the course. The course element will then also become available in the course view.

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General configuration settings

In the course editor, you will find the following configuration tabs:

Title and description

Configuration options in the tab title and description ...

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Elements

Description

Title

You need to enter a title for the course element. The title can comprise a maximum of 100 characters. All special characters and numbers are permitted. The title will appear in the navigation menu of the course and also as a heading in the content area.

Changes to the title of the first course element, the so-called main course node ...
 If you change the title of the first course element, the new content will only be applied to the main course node and then displayed in the opened course. If you wish to edit the course title or description, you can do so using the more settings menu of the course.

Subtitle

You can enter a subtitle for the course element with a maximum of 255 characters. All special characters and numbers are permitted. The title will appear as a tooltip in the navigation menu and - if selected and configured accordingly - as a subtitle in the content area.

Description

Here you can describe the course element. The description will appear in the content area below the title.

Depending on the settings configured in the element Display, this additional text is displayed to the user when opening the course element. The user can expand or collapse the view of the text.

 

Display

Define which information about the course element should be displayed in the course view. In addition to the content, you can optionally display the title and description. All course elements are provided with a reasonable presetting, which mostly includes the setting Title, description and content. You can adjust this setting in accordance with the options available for each course element.

Set link for this course element

Each course element can be accessed via fixed link addresses. Therefore, an internal and an external URL is assigned to each course element. These direct links to concrete elements can be used within courses or provided to learners. The URLs are located below the title and description of the element and will appear upon selecting Set link for this course element.  

  • External link: To refer to this course element from outside of the course or learning platform, you can use the external link and insert it, for example as a href attribute, into the desired HTML page.
  • Internal link: To set a link to another course element within the same course, you can insert the internal link as a href attribute into the desired HTML page.

ID

You will need the ID number of the course element (on the bottom right), for example, if you wish to use the expert mode in the visibility or access tab.

Visibility

Configuration options in the tab visibility and access ...
Sichtbarkeit und Zugriff

Access

Configuration

In this tab, you can select, create, and import resources. Detailed instructions are given in the following section Special configuration settings.

Multilingualism

In this tab, different translations can be added to individual course element areas.

Special configuration settings

In the tab Configuration, you can assign one or more flashcard set resource(s) to your course element. Choose one of the three options:

  • use an existing learning resource Flashcard set (option 1),
  • create and use a new learning resource Flashcard set (option 2), or
  • import a new learning resource Flashcard set (option 3).
     
Start the configuration for all three variants as follows:

1.

2.

Open the course element Flashcard set.

In the course editor, switch to the tab Configuration and click on Add, create or import flashcard set.

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 3.

A page with functions to create and import new flashcard set resources and a list of your existing flashcard set resources will open. Decide on one of the following options:

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3a

(Option 1emoticon_smile To use an existing learning resource Flashcard set, select the desired resource by clicking on the Icon_Hinzufügen schwarz.pngplus icon in the Actions column.

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3b

(Option 2emoticon_smile To create and use a new learning resource Flashcard set, click on Create. A page for creating a new learning resource will open.

Expand further steps ...
  • Enter a title for the new resource and add a description if necessary.
  • Click on Save.
  • As a next step, you can add an image to the resource using Upload.
  • Click on Finish to complete the creation process.

The newly created resource will now automatically be used as a resource for the flashcard set course element and displayed in the Configuration tab below Add, create or import flashcard set.

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3c

(Option 3emoticon_smile To import a new learning resource Flashcard set, click on Import. The system's default upload page will open.

Expand further steps ...

Select a location for the file you wish to import and upload the file.

  • The page for creating a new learning resource will open.
  • Enter a title for the imported resource and add a description if necessary.
  • Click on Save.
  • As a next step, you can select an image for the resource using Upload.

  • Click on Finish to complete the creation process.

The newly imported resource will now automatically be used as a resource for the flashcard set course element and displayed in the Configuration tab below Add, create or import flashcard set.

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4

The selected resource will now automatically be used as a resource for the flashcard set course element and displayed in the Configuration tab below Add, create or import flashcard set.

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5

Publish your course to complete the configuration and to make the resource available to participants.


Functions after adding a flashcard set resource 

Edit or remove an added resource

Once a flashcard set resource has been added, you have the following options:

To detailed view

Use this button to switch to the detailed view of the added flashcard set resource. Among other things, you will find information on the supervisors and access rights in this area.

Remove flashcard set resource

If you have added more than one flashcard set resource, you can also remove resources. To remove a flashcard set resource, proceed as follows:

How to do that?
  1. Open the course element Flashcard set.
  2. Switch to the Configuration tab in the course editor.
  3. Click on Remove next to the resource you wish to remove.

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Edit flashcard set resource

Use this button to switch to the edit view of the resource.

Open the edit view of the resource Flashcard Set in one of the following ways:

  • Open edit view via the detailed view of the resource
  • Open edit view via the course editor

Open edit view via the detailed view of the resource:

  1. Find the relevant resource in the overview of your learning resources (Teach & Learn>My Resources>Flashcard Sets).
  2. Mark the title of the resource in the list of displayed flashcard set resources. The detailed view of the resource will open in a new tab.
  3. Click on the edit icon at the top of the page. 

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Open edit view via the course editor:

  1. Open a course in which you use the relevant learning resource Flashcard Set as a course element.
  2. Switch to the course editor.
  3. Open the relevant course element Flashcard Set and go to the tab Configuration.
  4. Click on Edit.

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Adjust number of learning boxes

With the Number of cardboxes setting, you can determine how many times a flashcard must be repeated before it will be considered as learned. To customise the number of cardboxes, proceed as follows:

How to do that?
  • Open the course element Flashcard set.
  • Switch to the Configuration tab in the course editor.
  • Now choose the desired number of cardboxes below the selected flashcard set resource. Any number between two and five is possible.

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In the course view

In the course view of a course element Flashcard set, you have access to all Functions available to users.