About Stu-Decks

What it is

Stu-Decks lets you build decks of flashcards and study them in four ways. Flashcards flips through the cards at your own pace. Build Understanding works in short rounds, starting each card as a multiple-choice question and bringing it back as a recall question, until every card is mastered. Practice Test gives you a timed, scored test over a whole deck and keeps your past attempts. Quick Match is a race to pair every term with its definition.

You can search and study every deck students have shared without making an account. A free account keeps your scores and progress for good, across devices, and lets you build decks of your own and share them with other students taking the same course.

Why it exists

The study sites students already use kept moving features behind a subscription and/or instituting intrusive ad placement: the test modes, the matching games, sometimes the cards themselves. A student cramming for a midterm at two in the morning should not hit a paywall. Stu-Decks exists so that the students can actually...study.

Decks are tagged with a university and course number, so the work one student puts into a deck for a class can be found and reused by the next person taking it.

Who runs it

Stu-Decks is built and run by Avram Plager. It is an independent project, not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any university, college or other educational institution, including any whose courses appear in deck tags.

For privacy requests, Avram Plager is the data controller for personal information the site processes. See the privacy policy for what that covers and how to exercise your rights.

How it pays for itself

Running Stu-Decks costs money: hosting, a database, a domain. Two things are meant to cover it: advertising, and voluntary donations. Ads will never intrude or interrupt your usage of the site and donations do not unlock any additional features but they do help me allocate more resources to continue improving the site.

There are no ads on the site yet. Advertising is intended to be the main source, so you are asked, the first time you visit, whether advertising cookies may be used; if you choose "Strictly necessary" the site still works in full, keeping only the few cookies it cannot run without. The privacy policy explains exactly what each choice does, and it will name the advertising partner before the first ad appears.

Getting in touch

Questions, bug reports, feature ideas and copyright complaints all go to [email protected]. See the contact page for what to include, or the FAQ if your question might already be answered there.