Flashcards from a quiz you already wrote
TeachRoster turns a quiz you have already written into a revision deck in one click — the question becomes the front of the card, its answer becomes the back, and the explanation you wrote rides along underneath — so there is no second round of writing, and you can see afterwards which cards your class keeps getting wrong.
Most flashcard tools ask a teacher to write the deck. That is the same work as writing the quiz, done twice, which is why most classes never get one.
So the deck is derived rather than authored. A multiple-choice question becomes a card with the correct option on the back. A true/false becomes the word. A short answer becomes the first spelling you said you would accept. Anything with no single answer worth showing is left out rather than turned into a broken card.
Everything stays editable afterwards, because a good quiz question is not always a good card — but you start from something rather than from a blank deck.
How it works
- 1
Write the quiz once
Type the questions, or give a topic and check the draft. Either way you end up with questions and answers you approved.
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Press Make flashcards
The deck is built from those questions. Fronts, backs and your explanations, in the order you wrote them, ready to edit.
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Give it to the class
Students work through it on a phone at their own pace. Cards they mark 'not yet' come back at the end of the pass, so a deck cannot be finished while three cards are still unknown.
What it does today
- A deck is built from an existing quiz — you do not write the cards twice.
- Every card stays editable, and you can add cards the quiz did not cover.
- Students tap to turn a card over, then say whether they knew it.
- Cards answered 'not yet' repeat until they are known.
- Nothing is marked: a deck is practice and never counts towards a grade.
- You see how often each card came back wrong, hardest first.
- A card nobody has met shows a dash rather than 0%, because never seen is not the same as everybody knows it.
What it will not do
Worth knowing before you build a term around it.
- Cards are text only — no images, audio or diagrams on either side.
- There is no spaced repetition schedule. Cards you did not know repeat within the same pass, not on a curve over days.
- Progress is per card across the class, not a per-student revision record you can report on.
- A deck cannot be built from a topic directly — it comes from a quiz, which you can generate in a minute if you do not have one.
- Students cannot make or share their own decks.
- Nothing here is graded, so a deck cannot be used as an assessment.
Common questions
How do I make flashcards from a quiz?
Open the quiz in your Library and press Make flashcards. TeachRoster builds a deck from the questions you already wrote — the question on the front, its answer on the back, and your explanation underneath. You can edit any card afterwards.
Do students need an account to use the flashcards?
No. Students join a class with a code you read out and pick a four-digit PIN. There is no email address and no app to install — the deck runs in a phone browser.
Are flashcards graded?
No. A deck is always practice and never counts towards a grade. The only thing recorded is the student's own verdict on each card, which is what tells you which cards are hard.
How do I know which flashcards my students find hard?
The deck page lists every card with how many times it was seen, how many times it came back 'not yet', and a trouble percentage — sorted worst first. It is a row per flip rather than a running total, so a card a student finally gets right on the fourth pass still shows it took four passes.
Can students go through a deck more than once?
Yes, as many times as they like. Cards they mark 'not yet' come back at the end of the same pass, and the deck stays available on their home screen rather than moving to 'handed in'.
Is TeachRoster's flashcard feature free?
Yes, free for teachers during the beta, including generating the quiz the deck is built from.
Keep reading
Start with your own class.
Free for teachers during the beta. Sign in with Google, paste your roster, and read out a code — your students never make an account.