Quizlet Introduces New, Engaging Classroom Learning Game

By Tamiera Vandegrift on April 13, 2016

The world’s largest user-powered learning platform that we all know and love, (also known as Quizlet!), has just come out with some exciting news in the form of a new feature that will expand its review games far past its previous limits.

For those who don’t know, Quizlet is a user-powered learning platform that allows members to create and share sets of flashcards, play engaging study games, and discover over 125 million study sets of content all at the touch of a mouse or a cell phone screen.

Our savior from the studying struggle came to be in 2005 when Albany, CA native Andrew Sutherland created Quizlet to help him prepare for a high-school French quiz. Sutherland passed with flying colors and soon his fellow friends and classmates wanted to know his secret to academic success. Quizlet spread throughout Sutherland’s high school and eventually throughout the entire world! Quizlet has four million monthly users, meaning that one in four students will use Quizlet every day! Oh yes, it’s that big of a deal.

So how can the pink Starburst of study aids bring any more great academic vibes to our lives?

We’re proud to introduce Quizlet Live, the new collaborative classroom game that again makes studying and learning new material fun, engaging and informative. It’s a real-time classroom game for teachers and students and it works like this:

The teacher will simply choose a set to review and click the purple “Live” icon. The students will be instructed to go to quizlet.live and punch in the code given by their teacher in order to enjoy the game. Students, in a classroom of roughly 30, will be divided into teams of three or four. Each team will be given a term to define and from there it’s a race against their opponents to get the most terms correctly defined by the end of the round. Correct answers will move teams ahead, but wrong answers will send them back to the starting line.

Image via: quizlet.com

What’s the best part?

It’s completely free and open to everyone!

“We’ve been wanting to build a classroom game for a long time,” said Quizlet founder Andrew Sutherland. “Teachers use Quizlet all the time, but all of the activities are individualistic. It would be great, we thought, to integrate teamwork.”

The results speak for themselves. Quizlet Live has been tested in 900,000 schools and adored by teachers and students alike.

“A massive number of people have gotten excited,” Sutherland said. “Students told teachers and their teachers proceeded to tell other teachers.”

As Sutherland said, the real-time game has a lot more to give students than excellent academic marks. The game fosters soft skills by encouraging students to work together and build on their communication skills to achieve a common goal. The only way to beat the game successfully is to communicate effectively with teammates. Students are engaged, focused, and best of all having fun while studying, thus planting the seeds for a new love of learning.

“It gets [students] working proactively and it’s definitely more effective and engaging than lectures,” Sutherland said.

As the school year is coming to an end, Quizlet Live is the perfect tool to help students defeat final exam stress, while continuing to learn in a fun and collaborative way. Despite the fast transition from traditional education to digital education, learning platforms that support teamwork and the classroom setting are scarce to be found. Quizlet Live was created to solve this issue and make online learning less distant and more synergetic than ever before — and it’s only just the beginning!

“For us, this is only the beginning of designing for classrooms and designing for real time,” Sutherland said. “We’re in the process of designing more games.”

Quizlet Live will be a literal trailblazer on the road to classroom-friendly online learning and we’ve still got a long road of digital academic development ahead of us.

For more information on Quizlet Live, check out this video here.

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