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and let your class drill between sessions.

Describe the topics on your state’s exam and the agent builds a study web app: decks, a drill that brings back missed cards and a progress page for every signed-in candidate.

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Starter prompt

Build a real estate exam flashcards web app for a prelicensing school. Keep decks, cards, card progress and study sessions in collections. Tag every deck with an exam section, a topic such as agency, contracts, financing or real estate math, and its course week. Cards hold a prompt, an answer, a hint and a worked example. Candidates sign in, pick a deck and answer card by card, marking each one right or wrong. Send a missed card back into tomorrow’s queue and push a card they got right further out each time. Record each candidate’s class, and show accuracy by topic, a due-today count and a class rollup.

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Overview

Who this flashcards app is for

Exam candidates lose weeks to rereading the prelicensing manual instead of trying to recall anything from it. Paper cards get left at home, a shared slide deck goes stale the week a state rule changes and an instructor has no way to know that half the room still mixes up an option with a right of first refusal. A flashcards app changes the job: decks, cards, review history and session results live in collections, candidates drill the topics they keep missing and instructors see where the class actually stands.

Key features

What your flashcards app can do

  • Decks that follow the exam outline

    Group cards the way your candidate handbook groups the exam: one deck per section and topic, so somebody studying agency duties isn’t shuffled into proration math halfway through.

    • Every deck tagged with an exam section and a topic
    • Saved views for national decks, state decks and drafts
    • Cards held in order inside a deck, or shuffled at study time
    • A reviewed-on date for when a statute changes

  • A drill that brings cards back

    Candidates read a prompt, reveal the answer and mark themselves right or wrong. A missed card returns tomorrow; one they keep getting right moves further down the queue.

    • Right or wrong marked on every card
    • A due-today queue built from each card’s next review date
    • Missed-only drills for a single topic
    • Hints and worked steps revealed with the answer

  • Progress each candidate can see

    Everyone signs in, so review history belongs to the person rather than the device. A progress page shows accuracy by topic, the longest run of correct answers and what is due today.

    • Accuracy per exam topic, weakest first
    • Study sessions logged with cards seen and how many were correct
    • A morning email with the day’s due-card count
    • Longest run of correct answers, and the cards missed most often

  • Card writing for instructors

    Type cards into the spreadsheet-like grid, or describe a topic and let the collection assistant draft rows for you to correct. Co-instructors work in the same workspace.

    • Bulk edits to reword or reformat many cards at once
    • Drafted rows held for an instructor to check
    • Comment on the preview with a co-instructor
    • Changes to the app checkpointed, so an edit that breaks study mode rolls back
Data model

The collections behind it

Netiva keeps your records in built-in collections. Here’s a starting structure — the agent adapts it to your prompt, and you can change it any time.

Decks

One deck per exam topic, tagged so a candidate can pick exactly what they are weak at.

  • Title (required) Text
  • Exam section (required) National portion or state portion, or whatever sections your exam uses Text
  • Topic (required) Agency, contracts, financing, property ownership, math… Text
  • Summary Paragraph
  • Position Order the deck appears in the library Number
  • Course week Which week of the course assigns this deck; blank for reference decks Number
  • Status (required) Draft, Published or Retired Text
  • Reviewed on Last time an instructor checked the deck against current rules Date

Cards

The prompts candidates answer, with the answer, a hint and where it came from.

  • Deck (required) Relation to Decks
  • Prompt (required) The term, question or math problem on the front Text
  • Answer (required) Paragraph
  • Hint Shown on request, never enough to give the answer away Text
  • Worked steps For math cards such as proration or a commission split Paragraph
  • Card type (required) Term, definition, scenario or math Text
  • Reference Course chapter or statute the instructor cites Text
  • Position Order inside the deck; study mode can shuffle instead Number

Card progress

One row per candidate and card: which box it sits in, when it comes back and whose class it counts toward.

  • Candidate (required) Email of the signed-in candidate Text
  • Class Cohort the candidate studies with, such as Fall evenings; blank for self-study Text
  • Card (required) Relation to Cards
  • Box (required) 1 for new or missed cards, up to 5 for ones answered right repeatedly Number
  • Due on (required) Date
  • Last result (required) Correct or missed Text
  • Times correct Number
  • Times missed Number

Study sessions

One record per study session, so candidates and instructors can see a trend.

  • Candidate (required) Email of the signed-in candidate Text
  • Class Cohort the candidate studies with, so sessions roll up for an instructor Text
  • Deck Blank when the session came from the due-today queue Relation to Decks
  • Mode (required) Deck study, due today or timed drill Text
  • Started at (required) Date & time
  • Cards seen (required) Number
  • Correct (required) Number
  • Minutes Number

Required field. Types are Netiva collection field types.

Screens

Pages and screens to start with

A typical first version. Ask the agent for more, or annotate the preview to change any of them.

  • Deck library

    Published decks grouped by exam section and topic, each with its card count and one sample card so a visitor can see the style.

    Public

  • Deck page

    What the deck covers, how many cards it holds, when an instructor last reviewed it and a button that starts a study session.

    Public

  • Study mode

    One card at a time: read the prompt, reveal the answer and worked steps, mark it right or wrong, and see how many cards are left.

    Signed-in users

  • Due today

    Cards scheduled for this candidate today, pulled from every deck they study and ordered with their weakest topics first.

    Signed-in users

  • My progress

    Accuracy by exam topic, recent study sessions and the cards missed most often, each linking into a missed-only drill.

    Signed-in users

  • Class view

    A team screen for instructors: pick a class and see how each candidate in it is tracking by topic, and which cards the group keeps getting wrong.

    Your team
How it works

From prompt to a live flashcards app

  1. Map the exam outline

    Tell Netiva which sections and topics your course covers and how a study session should work. The agent drafts collections for decks, cards, card progress and study sessions, plus the library that renders from them.

  2. Write the first decks

    Type cards into the collection grid, or describe a topic and have the collection assistant draft rows you then correct. Begin with the terms every cohort asks about twice a year.

  3. Study the deck yourself

    Run a study session in the live preview. Annotate anything that reads wrong — a hint that gives the answer away, a card that comes back too soon — and the agent adjusts it while you watch.

  4. Open it to the class

    Publish in one click and send the link out with the week-one material. Candidates set up their own sign-in, and each later edit is checkpointed, so an experiment is easy to undo.

Why Netiva

Netiva vs a traditional build

Building a flashcards app with Netiva compared with a traditional build
Criterion With Netiva Traditional build
What gets reviewed next A due-today queue built from the cards this candidate actually missed Whichever card happens to be on top of the pile
Seeing where a class stands Accuracy by exam topic for each candidate and for the group A show of hands at the end of the session
Getting started Describe what you need in chat and watch it take shape in a live preview Hire developers, or stitch together templates, plugins and a hosting plan
Content and data Built-in collections with nine field types, bound straight to your pages Set up and connect a separate database or CMS
Making changes Ask the agent; every change is checkpointed and reversible File a ticket, wait for a sprint, redeploy
Hosting and domain Global hosting and automatic SSL; connect a custom domain from the Starter plan Buy hosting, then install and renew SSL certificates yourself
Code ownership Clean production code you own and can export Locked into a template, plugin or agency setup
Examples

Ways teams use it

  • A prelicensing school with evening classes

    The school publishes one deck for each week of the course. Candidates drill the current deck between sessions, and the instructor opens the class view beforehand to decide which 20 minutes of the syllabus to reteach.

  • A candidate retaking one portion

    Someone who cleared the national portion and missed the state one studies only the state decks. Their drill history decides what comes back: the due-today queue keeps returning the agency rules and statutory timelines they keep getting wrong.

  • A brokerage training its new licensees

    A broker trainer builds a math-only deck — proration, commission splits, loan-to-value, capitalization rate — where every card carries the worked steps behind the answer, and runs new agents through it in their first month rather than waiting for a school’s next cohort.

Good to know

Before you build

  • You write the cards

    Netiva doesn’t ship exam content, and there is no importer for a deck you keep somewhere else. Build cards from your own course material or content you are licensed to use, starting with the topics your class asks about most.

  • Not affiliated with any exam provider

    A deck can follow the content outline published in your state’s candidate handbook, but the app isn’t endorsed by the exam provider or the licensing commission and can’t predict questions. Never copy live exam items — candidates agree not to share them.

  • Rules differ by state and they change

    Qualifying hours, exam sections and retake rules are set state by state: New York, for example, asks for 77 hours of qualifying education and reports the written exam as passed or failed with no numerical score. Keep a reviewed-on date on every deck.

  • Studying happens in a browser

    Netiva builds web apps, so a candidate studying on the train needs a connection: there is no offline mode and nothing to install. Check the study screen at phone width in the preview before you send the link to a class.

FAQ

Questions about building a flashcards app

How does the app decide which cards to show a candidate today?

Each candidate has a card progress row per card holding a box number and a next-due date. Mark a card correct and it moves up a box and comes back later; miss it and it drops to box one and returns tomorrow. The due-today queue is everything scheduled for that date across their decks. You pick the intervals — one, two, four, eight and 16 days is a common start.

Can I keep the national and state portions in separate decks?

Yes. Every deck carries an exam section and a topic, so the library can show national decks, state decks or both, and a candidate retaking one portion studies only what they need. Saved views turn those filters into one click for instructors. If your exam isn’t split that way, use the same field for whichever sections your handbook lists.

Can the collection assistant help write cards for a topic?

It drafts rows for you to review. Describe a topic such as types of deeds or landlord and tenant duties and it writes prompts and answers into the collection, which an instructor then corrects. It also handles bulk work like cutting every answer to one sentence or translating a deck. Nothing reaches candidates until the deck status is set to Published.

Can instructors see which topics a class keeps missing?

Yes. Every card progress and study session record carries the candidate’s class, so an instructor picks a cohort and sees accuracy by topic for each candidate, plus the cards the group misses most. Instructors reach that rollup from the class view, and a weekly email can send the same summary before the next session, so reteaching starts from the real weak spots instead of a guess.

Does progress follow a candidate from a laptop to a phone?

Yes. Netiva builds web apps that open in any browser, and review history is stored against the signed-in candidate rather than the device, so a study session begun on a laptop carries on from the same card on a phone. There is nothing to install, though the app does need a connection to load the next card.

Which Netiva plan does a school need to publish a flashcards app?

Start on the free plan and build the decks and study screens in the live preview. Custom domain connection comes with the Starter plan, so a school publishing at its own address needs at least that. Higher plans add capacity and features such as role-based access from the Pro plan, which covers the people editing in your Netiva workspace rather than the candidates signing in to your app. Check the pricing page for what each plan includes today.

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Drafted with AI assistance from Netiva’s product pages and reviewed by the Netiva team. Example data models, screens and prompts are illustrative starting points, not customer projects.

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