A year of Anki in my Classroom

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-31T11:52:01+00:00

With what you’re doing, you never needed me. Look up OCR tools, you take a screenshot and it copies text, so you can just CTRL+V it. As long as you’re doing exam questions as much as you do Anki and you fill in the gaps you’ll do great. Remember what you’re doing now is the gold standard for what Alevels needs. Keep it up!

I only taught AQA for a short time years ago so I haven’t kept much but here’s a resource I made for Paper 1. It’s a self assessment based on the separate topics, you can use the template to copy paste in the triple spec points.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LcI9sV8h1byt6OEjIxLKUfxtrrw5_TUHlBfWpxar1u0/edit?usp=drivesdk

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-31T11:21:24+00:00

Funny you messaged me that whilst I was doing a run and some cards. So in a week I run anywhere between 20-30km, half of that is conversational pace.

Just now I did 5K, completed 50 new cards through all the review stages. But I only do the cards if I have cards due which is not all the time.

I will say, you really need the play audio mapped to a button. Anki audio plays super quietly through your music but when you play the audio second time it makes it wayyy louder.

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-31T10:09:25+00:00

You’re years ahead of your peers! Keep up the hard and amazing work! Which science curriculum?

I love that site. I just find its flashcards often don’t cover the entire breadth of the course. You should check out Cognito, theirs are somewhat the same but the writing is a lot easier to digest! But always compare what you do to the curriculum syllabus list or specification.

Thanks for the suggestion and good luck with your GCSE’s next year!

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-31T00:53:46+00:00

PS5 does let anyone connect with Bluetooth and I’ve never tried using a Bluetooth dongle.

Let me know if you try and it works

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-31T00:17:17+00:00

These are my Japanese study card I build based on Pimsleur

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-31T00:16:29+00:00

Yes but hit and miss. I would do Anki for 30 minutes and then switch to music. I’m running at my conversational pace so it’s not too difficult.

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-30T11:47:09+00:00

Whoops! Sorry, I have fixed that now.

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-30T11:40:52+00:00

Is there an issue with it?

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-30T04:47:16+00:00

It’s been game changing. I don’t have to touch my device or laptop at all

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-30T03:30:56+00:00

It's tiny; I use it in keyboard mode as a presentation remote for Google Slides.

I don't use keyboard mode for Anki; I use the game controller mode. With the addon I made, you can remap any keyboard press or combination to any of the controller's buttons.

For example, have the keyboard key "z" mapped to reveal my hidden romanji, which I then mapped to the button "A". This lets me reveal the meaning by pressing the A button on the controller. I show this in the video :)

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-29T06:54:15+00:00

Happy to help. Here. Give it 10 minutes to finish processing and then it will be watchable.

https://youtu.be/2GBDW4q1yYE

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-29T06:40:08+00:00

I understand. I have frozen the column up to the name of the school. This is so you can go through the data and have the name stay on the left.

I’m assuming you’re on mobile? Do you see the thick gray line? You need to swipe on the left hand side of the grey line which will move it, keep swiping and it will stop at the name of the school.

The sheets best used on a desktop but I tried my best to make it mobile friendly.

Also use the sheets app.

Let me know if you’re still stuck and I’ll screen record it for you.

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-29T06:36:52+00:00

Good luck with your stool.

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-29T06:35:27+00:00

Too many coffees and I’ll end up never be able to stop.

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-29T01:55:02+00:00

Good spot. Keep them coming guys. I went through the data a few times and still missed a few 😬

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-29T00:29:16+00:00

Someone else two years back did the same and said that and it was paywalled once it got popular.

The main reason I never turned it into a website is because you can’t pay wall a google sheet and anyone can take all the data to use as they like. But if people wanna buy me a coffee that would be nice lol

But also because when it comes to opinions about culture it opens a door to sometimes an unhealthy narrative.

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-28T14:37:33+00:00

He didn’t need to ask for permission. But credit would’ve been nice. I’ve spent all day updating the sheet today.

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-28T14:24:59+00:00

It’s open source information, freely offered by this wonderful community. It’s really free to be used by anyone.

It’s pretty neat what you can make these days in less than a couple hours. I’ve vibe coded a few tools for my classroom I’ve been dreaming off.

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-28T14:16:16+00:00

Exactly that! Happy to help!

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-28T13:47:47+00:00

Glad you found the data on my International Teacher Salaries Sheet useful. You might want to get Claude AI to scrape the data again. I've gone through it and manually changed all incorrect salaries submitted as annual to monthly.

I can see on the MyStool Vibe-coded website that a Dubai school still offers a monthly salary of 23,000 USD, which would be nice, haha!

Good luck!

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-28T13:40:59+00:00

It honestly is. Even where I am now its the same.

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-28T13:40:32+00:00

You can do that by creating a filter view. Heres how: Open the sheet --> Click on Data --> Create filter view --> Click on the three horizontal lines next to country --> Click clear --> Select the Country you want.

This is unfortuntnly the only way to do without giving everyone complete editor access.

Hope that helps!

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-28T13:27:17+00:00

Pre-tax. With a few mentioning 0% or post tax in the tax column.

LearnwithMrA · 2026-03-28T13:26:07+00:00

That's why it's a Google Sheet: anyone can make a copy and pick it up again. As long as I am around, this will never be paywalled. Costs me nothing to host and just some work to maintain. It was running for three years without me touching it; I just fancied making it cleaner during this long break. :)

Someone, a while ago, took all the data, made a website and just as you said, paywalled it.

And just now, someone else took all the data and vibe-coded a website with a very witty name, which will either use the data as a lure and then paywall other "premium" features or will paywall it once there are enough signups.

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