Flashcards

How to use CLIP Learn flashcards — flip cards to reveal answers, self-mark known, and cycle a deck scoped to your enrolled courses and lessons.

Flashcards are quick recall drills for your key topics. Each card shows a question on the front; you flip it to reveal the answer, then self-mark whether you knew it and cycle through the deck. Cards are drawn from the courses you are enrolled on, so the deck you see is always relevant to what you are studying.

Where to find Flashcards

Flashcards live at /app/flashcards and are reachable from the main navigation bar (labelled Flashcards) on desktop and from the mobile navigation menu. Any signed-in learner can open the page — there is nothing to switch on.

There are two places flashcards appear:

The Flashcards page — one combined deck pulled from every course you are enrolled on.
A lesson page — cards authored specifically for that lesson, shown at the bottom of the lesson under the heading Flashcards for this lesson.

Both use the same deck control described below.

What cards you see (scoping)

The Flashcards page does not show every card in the system — it is scoped to you.

Rule	What it means
Enrolled courses only	You only see cards belonging to courses you are actively enrolled on.
Active enrolments only	An enrolment counts if it has no expiry date, or its expiry date is in the future. Cards from expired enrolments drop out of your deck.
Published only	Only cards a faculty author has set to a published state are served to learners. Draft and archived cards never appear.
Legacy global cards	A small number of older cards that belong to no course and no lesson are shown to everyone.
Ordering	Cards on the Flashcards page are sorted alphabetically by topic, so related cards sit together.

Nothing to see yet?

If no cards have been published for your courses, the page shows No flashcards have been published yet. New cards appear automatically once your faculty publishes them — there is no action for you to take.

Lesson flashcards

When a lesson has its own cards, they appear in a Flashcards for this lesson block at the foot of that lesson page, after the lesson content and any quiz. These are only the cards authored from that specific lesson, most recently created first, and again only published ones. If a lesson has no cards, the block is simply not shown.

Using the deck

The deck is the same interactive control everywhere it appears.

Pick a topic (optional). Above the card is a row of topic chips. The first chip, All topics, shows the whole deck; the rest are the distinct topics found in your cards. Tap a chip to narrow the deck to just that topic. The selected chip is highlighted. Changing topic jumps you back to the first card and shows its question side.

Read the question. The card opens on its question (front) side. A small label reads Question, with the card's topic shown above it.

Flip to reveal the answer. Tap anywhere on the card to flip it. The label changes to Answer and the back of the card is shown. Tap again to go back to the question. The prompt at the bottom of the card tells you what a tap will do next (Tap to reveal answer or Tap to see question).

Self-mark. Use the centre button to tell yourself how you did. It toggles: press Mark known and it turns green and reads Known; press it again to un-mark. This is your own honesty check — see the note below on what it saves.

Move on. Use Prev and Next to move backwards and forwards through the deck. Moving to another card always resets it to its question side, so you never see the answer before the question.

Progress indicators

Just above the card, two small counters help you track where you are:

Indicator	Meaning
`Card X of Y`	Your position in the current deck. `Y` reflects the active topic filter, not the whole library.
`N marked known`	How many cards you have marked Known in this sitting.

Cycling and wrap-around

The deck is a loop. Pressing Next on the last card takes you to the first card, and pressing Prev on the first card takes you to the last. This lets you keep circling the cards you keep missing without hitting a dead end. Combine this with the Mark known toggle to keep visually separating what you have and haven't nailed as you go round.

What is and isn't saved

Known marks are for this session only

Marking a card Known is a study aid for the current visit — it is held in your browser and is not saved to your account. If you refresh the page, navigate away and back, or open the deck on another device, all cards start unmarked again and the N marked known counter resets to zero. There is no long-term progress or spaced-repetition tracking on flashcards.

Because of this, flashcards are best used as a fast, low-stakes recall drill in a single sitting rather than a system that remembers your mastery over time. For assessed progress, use the lesson quizzes and course assessments instead.

Card content and formatting

Each card has three pieces of content authored by faculty:

Field	What it is
Topic	The short label shown at the top of the card and used to build the topic filter chips.
Front	The question or prompt you see first.
Back	The answer revealed when you flip.

Line breaks that the author put into a card's front or back are preserved, so multi-line answers stay readable.

Empty states you might see

Situation	What is shown
No published cards for any of your courses	The page reads No flashcards have been published yet. and no deck appears.
You filtered to a topic that (after filtering) has no cards	The deck area reads No flashcards yet for this topic. Pick All topics or another chip to continue.
A lesson has no cards	The Flashcards for this lesson block is hidden entirely on that lesson page.

Lessons

Where lesson-specific flashcards appear, alongside content and quizzes.

Quizzes

Assessed recall that, unlike flashcards, records your progress.

Lessons

Quizzes

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