In Brainscape, the primary flashcard activity is "studying". This means "proceeding through flashcards in a personalized order, based on your self-rated confidence in each flashcard, on a 1-5 scale". Brainscape's study algorithm uses a scientifically optimized learning technique that we call Confidence-Based Repetition (CBR).
You can "study" in Brainscape using either our website or our mobile app. All your progress is kept in sync across devices.
Yet you may occasionally want to just review all flashcards in a linear order, without automatically repeating flashcards using CBR.
Methods of "linear" content review
On our website, if you have Editing permissions for a Class, you can easily review flashcards in order by choosing the Review All Cards option in a Deck's menu bar. This will show all the flashcards on a single screen, with two columns (Question & Answer), and will allow you to scroll down to see all the flashcards at once.
On mobile, you can get roughly the same experience by choosing to Edit the deck (unless you'd edited using HTML formatting features) and scroll through the flashcards in the palm of your hand.
In our app, you can choose to browse a Deck, by either choosing Study, and then clicking on the settings icon on the upper right corner and choosing “Switch to Browse Mode”. Or, you can click on a deck and the default screen view will be browse mode. For more details on how Browse mode currently works on the mobile app, read this article.
We recommend that you use Study Mode as often as possible, while using the various review and browse features only when organizing and referencing your flashcards. Studying is what will ultimately help you master your content!
Also, make sure you’ve gone out to the App Store, and make sure you have the latest version of the mobile app. You don’t want to miss the exciting updates!
Still have questions and can't find the answer? Be sure to email our Tech Support Team (support@brainscape.com).
If you'd love to vote for a new Brainscape feature, see what others are requesting, or get a sneak peek at features in our pipeline, please check out Brainscape User Feature Requests Forum! Please choose to Sign in with Brainscape (if you are commenting/requesting a new feature) so any feedback is tied to your account. Or you can even access the tool from our web/mobile menus which won't require you to login separately.
(Hint: to save time, search first to see if your desired feature is already in the list so you can just vote/comment.)
And for more FREE study advice don't forget to check out the Brainscape Academy.
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The browsing section on desktop looks really broken. The answers are really really small and sometimes its just blank.
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