The short, honest version. There are no flip-card decks in ClassSense and no spaced-repetition scheduler for cards. The closest things are the Task Cards option in Create Content (a printable Word document) and the practice built into every skill pack. If you want true flashcards with a flip animation, you need another tool, or paper.
What a flashcard is actually good for
A flashcard is a small retrieval attempt. The student sees a prompt, tries to produce the answer from memory, then checks. That attempt is the useful part, and it is why a student who writes their own cards and never tests themselves gets less out of them than they expect. The card is just the container. For the reasoning behind that, see retrieval practice.
Cards earn their place for facts that have one right answer and have to be instant: vocabulary, formulas, dates, symbols, parts of a cell, verb forms. They are a poor fit for anything where the skill is reasoning, because a card rewards recognising the answer rather than working it out.
What ClassSense has that is close
- Task Cards. In the Create Content tab you can generate a set of task cards for a topic. They download as a .docx laid out in a two-column table, so you print, cut and hand them out. One catch worth knowing: the answers sit on the teacher key page, not on the back of each card, so a student cannot flip a card to check themselves.
- Skill pack practice. Each skill pack has multiple-choice practice items with hints and feedback, and wrong options are tied to named misconceptions. This is retrieval practice, but it is a question and a set of choices, not a card.
- Worksheet and Assessment. Same Create Content tab. Short answer, fill-in-the-blank and matching question types are available there, and matching is the nearest thing to a term-and-definition drill.
A way to run card-style review with what exists
Upload the unit
Upload the notes or slides you already use so the skill packs and the generated documents come from your material, not a generic list.
Generate Task Cards
In Create Content, choose Task Cards, pick the topic and a card count, and download the .docx.
Check the cards before you print
Read every card against your own notes. Generated content can be wrong, and a wrong card gets memorised with confidence.
Print and cut
Cut along the table, keep the key page in your folder, and use the cards in pairs: one student asks, one answers from memory, then they swap.
Where this does not fit
If your goal is a student drilling 40 vocabulary terms on a phone with cards that reappear on a schedule, ClassSense will not do that. There is a separate, free vocabulary game maker on this site that needs no sign-up, and it is not part of the teacher product. Student practice inside ClassSense is multiple choice, so typed recall is also out.
Students can choose between four formats in the app (game based, reading and quiz, visual, experiential). Those are about choice and engagement. They are not a sort, and the evidence does not support matching students to a style, so do not build card sets around it. See what the evidence says about learning styles.
Cards versus the rest of your review
Use cards for recall of discrete facts and use skill pack practice for the reasoning behind them. A student who can flip through the terms for photosynthesis and still picks the wrong answer when a question describes it in new words has the cards but not the skill. The mastery view shows you which students are in that position, which a stack of paper cards cannot.
Common questions
Does ClassSense have flashcards?
No. There is no flashcard deck and no flip-card mode. The nearest option is Task Cards in Create Content, a printable Word document with answers on a separate teacher key page.
Can students make their own study cards in ClassSense?
No. Cards are generated by the teacher from the Create Content tab. Students practise through the skill packs you publish to their course.
Do cards repeat on a spaced schedule?
No. Mastered skills are flagged for a later quick check, but there is no card scheduler. If you want spacing, you bring old material back yourself.
Are Task Cards editable?
They download as a .docx, so you can edit them in Word before printing. Read them before they go to students.