Plainly: ClassSense does not make flashcards. What it makes from your notes is a set of skill packs with key terms and multiple choice practice, and, on request, a printable file of question cards. They do some of the same job, not all of it.
What study cards are for
A card is a small device for retrieval practice. The student reads a prompt, tries to pull the answer out of memory, and only then looks. That effortful pulling is what strengthens memory, which is why it beats rereading notes, however neatly highlighted. Cards also work best when they come back after a gap rather than all at once. Keep those two things in mind, because they decide which of the routes below is closest to what you wanted.
Route one: skill packs from your notes
Upload your typed notes and ClassSense builds skill packs. Each has a review page with the concept overview, key terms and worked examples, followed by multiple choice questions with hints and feedback. A student retrieves an answer every time they choose one, so the core mechanism is there. And when a student reaches Mastered on a skill, it comes back later for a quick check, which is the spaced-out return that makes cards worth using. What is missing is the one-at-a-time, term-on-the-front feel. This is a quiz, not a card flip.
Route two: printable Task Cards
In a course, open Create Content, choose Task Cards, and pick a published skill pack (or type a topic). You download a Word file laid out in two columns with cut lines. Each card carries a number, a difficulty tag, a short question and, sometimes, a hint. The answers are not on the cards: they are gathered on a teacher-only answer key at the end. By default you get twenty cards.
That is a question deck, not a two-sided deck. For a front-and-back set, open the .docx and paste the answers onto the reverse yourself, or have students write their own answers on the back during the lesson, which is a better learning task anyway. Used as partner quizzing or station work, the cards are good value for a few minutes of cutting.
Route three: a vocabulary list
If what you really have is a list of terms, the free vocabulary game maker on this site is a separate tool that works without signing up. The page on flashcards and study cards compares the options in one place.
Getting your notes in properly
- Type them or export them. Typed notes in Word or a Doc, saved as .docx, upload cleanly. Photographs of a notebook do not: handwriting does not survive extraction.
- Write in sentences. Fragments like "ATP, 2 net, glycolysis" were written for the person who wrote them. A complete sentence, "Glycolysis makes a net gain of 2 ATP", gives the software something it can build a question from, and gives a wrong option something to be wrong about.
- Cornell-style notes in a table. The text in both columns is read. A cue column of questions is useful source material, because it is exactly what a card would say.
- Notes that live inside slides. Upload the deck, and put the explanation in the speaker notes.
The short walkthrough
- Tidy the notes into sentences and save them as .docx or PDF.
- Upload them under Materials in the course. Wait about three minutes.
- Publish the skill packs that match what you meant.
- For paper, go to Create Content, choose Task Cards, and download.
- Cut, shuffle, hand out.
Where it does not fit
If students need to build and own their personal decks, a dedicated flashcard app does that better and ClassSense does not pretend otherwise. Where it earns its place is when you want one source, your notes, to produce practice that feeds a mastery record you can read at a glance on Monday.
Common questions
Is there a flashcard mode?
No. There is no flip-card study mode. The closest things are the multiple choice practice in each skill pack and the printable Task Cards file.
Do the Task Cards have answers on the back?
No. The question and an optional hint print on each card, and the answers sit on a separate teacher-only key at the end of the file. You can edit the Word file to add them.
Can students make their own cards?
Not inside ClassSense. Students work through the skill packs you publish.
Will it read my handwritten notes?
No. Handwriting does not survive extraction. Type them up or export them first.