Using Anki with Students – A Few Questions

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@bsluciana90

For students who use iPhones but don’t purchase the app, would AnkiWeb offer a good enough experience — particularly for decks with audio?

If you’re simply reviewing the cards, then AnkiWeb is fine. But if you want change the settings (deck options) you’d need access to one of the official clients.

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@bsluciana90

If I add audio using external TTS tools like ElevenLabs, will that work smoothly across AnkiDroid, AnkiMobile, and AnkiWeb?

That should work. However, the native TTS support doesn’t extend to AnkiWeb.

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@bsluciana90

Is there a way to create groups or organize my students within Anki to share decks more easily or keep things structured? If not, what would you recommend for teachers working with multiple students or classes?

You can use a service like AnkiCollab to share your decks (or AnkiHub). Note that you’d need a PC to use them. Here are the links:

@sorata

• AnkiHub: Allows real-time flashcard collaboration.
• AnkiCollab: Free and open-source flashcard-collaboration platform.

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@bsluciana90

And if so, are there any size or format limitations I should be aware of, especially for students using different devices?

An individual media file cannot be more than 100MB (or some other impossibly large number if im not remembering correctly).

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One more thing you can check out is the leaderboard add-on. IIRC, it allows people to form groups and then compete amongst each other. Because add-ons are only available on PC not all of your students might have access to them.

Also, this thread might have some insights:

Anki in schools

Anki is limited to the individual, independent, self-disciplined learner. Opening Anki to school systems would expand Anki use a thousand-fold but requires a rewiring of the current Anki mindset. The primary user paradigm becomes the teacher/classroom. A few initial ideas to whet the imagination: Distributing a deck toi the entire class in a single operation Seeing overall class statistics in a single operation Gamification I’ve put together more on the topic. Would like to hear if there is …