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Review:StudyBlue

Many times during their studies pupils are trapped below a pile of books, anxious from the fact that we have to learn and memorize things and that’s where StudyBlue comes to help them “Conquer their Studies”. StudyBlue is a learning platform with studying tools that help more than 13 million people to study their subject.

Since we are born in the Information age, this platform serves our needs for modernization of learning by providing Learning tools. On the site or on the mobile application users can find flashcards on the subject they are interested in, or make their own.

How it works

“Make cards”

In order to make a new deck of flash card, click on the top left of the screen the “make cards” option. You will be redirected to a new page where you get to right the term and definition of the cards you want. The page gives you the opportunity to add special symbols and mathematic symbols in your textbox. On the left you can see the terms, and by clicking them you add them to a deck. Study blue lets you also import cards from an excel file, by clicking the import option and then all you have to do is to choose your file. At the end, hit the “done” option on the top left corner and a small window will pop up, that lets you name your deck, specify its location and choose if you want it public, anonymously public, private or protected, after that click save to save your deck.

 

“Take a quiz”

If you want to take a quiz, on your main page there is a green button and below it, it reads “TAKE QUIZ”. After you click on it, after that a little window will pop up in front of you where you get to choose how many questions you want and If you want them in order, randomly, from the hardest to the easiest or the least studied. You also get to choose if you want the questions to ask you the term or the definition. After you have made your choices you continue by clicking the start studying button and you will be taken to another page, which is the quiz page where there are also options about the form of the quiz, the available options are: multiple choice, true or false or type the answer and the number of questions you want. Then, you hit the “create this quiz” button to begin the quiz. When you have finish the test, there is a “Grade my quiz” option on the left side of the screen, which shows you the results of your quiz.

Advantages

 It’s Free! There are two versions of the platform, one free and the other one is priced. Both function the same with the difference that the free has advertisements.

 Simple and well designed so that users can easily navigate through it.

As it is known, each person has a different way to remember and learn things and that’s why the platform lets you add text but also gives you the opportunity to include images for the visual learners and audio for auditory learners.

Both, the application and the site enable users to explore and share more than 350.000 flashcards made by other users in order to learn. Allowing not only student to share their content with their colleagues but also the teachers with their students.

A pretty good feature of Studyblue is that the digital natives can adjust it according to their needs. There are 3 study modes: Flip Cards, Take Quiz, Review Sheet. In Each one of these, users have the chance to change the number of the cards or their order (easy to hard, random, in order). They can also choose the way they are going to submit the answers (true/false, multiple choice or type the full answer). That gives the students the opportunity to test their knowledge in different ways, so that they can learn and feel more secure about their cognition.

Studyblue keeps track of user’s progress in order to help them to reach their studying goals.

Disadvantages

Due to its nature there is no confirmation that the information in the available flashcards is correct, which means it can have misleading content.

  In the sign up users have to give their personal information like an account picture, their name, which become public, leading to privacy issues, since users can be under aged students.

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