How to Make Flash Cards

You don’t just want how to Make Flash Cards; you want to make good ones. If you are going to the trouble of making your own flashcards, it helps to know what makes a good flashcard for studying and what the benefits of making your own cards are.

If you are a tutor, you might want to tell your students about these tips. The most important thing is to use good design to make your flashcards interesting if you can. This is where a good app for making flashcards can help you design and change them.

How to Make Flash Cards

Preparing to Make Flash Cards

• Find a place to work. Have a well lit working area where you are away from distractions and have all equipment ready. You want to devote your entire attention to your flash cards. 
• Collect your materials together. This means that you should have your flash cards and textbook ready. Have a good pen, markers, highlighters, and whatever other writing implements you’d like to use.
• Highlight the most important information. Identify salient information in your notes and text book. Distill them down into their key parts so that you can transfer them to your notecards — in a physical or a digital form.

Making Paper Flash Cards

• Write the key term or concept on one side of the flash card. Write it in large letters so it will be easy for you to read. You don’t want to include any of the key information on this side.
• Write short, concise notes on the other side of the flash card. Your goal is to distill the key information on this side of the notecard. Don’t rewrite a professor’s entire lecture on Mongolian agrarian reform or bicameralism. Take the most important points your professor emphasizes and bullet point them on the notecard.
• Make sure your writing is large, clear, and well-spaced. If your writing is small, you will not be able to read it easily and if it’s crowded you will have too much to take in at one time. Writing clearly will enable you to read your notes easily.
• Write in bright colors. Colors are your friend. Feel free to color code particular information. For example, if you are studying for a French verb test, you might write the infinitive verb on one side of the card and then on the other, you could write the definition in black and then the conjugated forms in a different color. 
• Use shorthand to save space. Sometimes, you might have a lot of information on a single flashcard. In this case, you might consider adopting a form of shorthand.

Making Flash Cards on Quizlet

• Log in to quizlet.com and click “create.” You can register for a free account on Quizlet.com or log in using a social media account like Facebook or Apple. Then, click the blue “create” button on the top left menu bar.
• Select “study set” from the drop down menu. This takes you to the page where you can enter all of the relevant information you’d like on your flash cards. Enter a title for the study set so you can keep track of flash cards for several classes
• Enter the terms and definitions manually. Quizlet has a very intuitive interface, so it’s easy to type your notes into flash cards. On the left column, enter the term. Then, write the definition, answer, or explanation on the corresponding field in the right column
• Select “create” to finish making the flash cards. Scroll down once you’ve entered all of your information and select “create.” A pop-up will appear and give you sharable links for your flash card study set. 

What are Flashcards?

With information on one or both sides, flashcards can be used to study or remember things. Flashcards are a flexible way to learn that can help students of all ages. They can be simple or have different colors. When studying, students may choose to have different colored flashcards for different topics or subject areas so they are easy to keep organized or mix up when using interleaving strategies.

Flashcards can be especially helpful for students who learn best by seeing, touching, or moving around. Writing information on flashcards and then trying to remember it is a simple way for everyone to review. There are many helpful ways that flashcards can be used in the classroom to help people learn.