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Vocab: keeping words and building flashcards

For coaches · 3 min read

This one is for language coaches — the Vocab tab and the words tray only appear for language students. The idea is simple: the chat you type during a lesson is already the vocabulary record, so you click the words out of it instead of retyping them anywhere.

Keep words from the lesson

1
During or after the lesson, open "Words from today" on the lesson screen.

It sits under the AI notes panel and re-renders your chat with every word clickable.

Language students only — a chess or tutoring student's lesson screen doesn't show it.

2
Take a word, a phrase, or the whole line.

Tap a word to keep it. Shift-tap a second word to take everything between them. Drag across a phrase to keep it whole. Or use the button beside a line to keep the line exactly as you typed it — which is usually what you want for "assouvir une envie" or "une cave", where the article is part of the word.

Where you glossed a word with a colon — "étirer: to stretch", or a ":to stretch" on the next line — the button offers both halves as one finished card. It only ever offers; nothing is kept until you save.

3
Fix anything in the tray before you save it.

Every entry in the tray is editable — the word on the left, the meaning on the right. Add the article, join a bad split, correct a spelling. Tap the × to drop an entry.

4
Optionally, ask Claude to suggest words from the chat.

It reads the chat and proposes candidates — corrections, new words, spellings.

Suggestions arrive UNTICKED, always. Nothing reaches your student that you didn't deliberately pick.

5
Save with "Add + write cards", or add them bare.

"Add + write cards" asks Claude to fill in the meaning, one example sentence rooted in your student's own lessons, and a usage note. "Add without cards" just puts the words on the list for you to write yourself.

Keep the list honest

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Open the student's Vocab tab to see the whole list. open →

Paste words in directly (one per line, "word — meaning" if you want to set the meaning yourself), edit any card, or retire words they've outgrown.

Retiring keeps the review history — it never deletes anything.

7
Flip on "Wobbling first" before a lesson.

It re-sorts the list by how likely your student is to have forgotten each word right now — that's your warm-up, prepared for you.

You don't have to go looking: the lesson screen shows the wobbling words in your prep column before you start the call.

8
Edit anything Claude wrote.

Claude never overwrites a meaning you set yourself, and every card is editable. Cards are rows, not blobs, so your edits stick.

What your student sees

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Their portal grows a Practice tab.

Flip cards: the word, then the meaning, then three buttons — No idea / Almost / Got it.

10
Reviews schedule themselves — you never plan them.

It uses spaced repetition (FSRS): a word they nail comes back in weeks, a word they miss comes back before they close the tab. When nothing is due, practice ends and says so — no infinite grind.

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A word with no meaning yet still shows — it just isn't drilled.

It sits under "Waiting on your coach" in their Practice tab and joins the flip cards the moment a meaning exists. Only you can write that meaning (by hand, or with "write the cards"), so the shelf never asks your student to finish your work.

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They can add words they tripped on themselves.

A word heard on the bus is exactly the word worth keeping. It lands on the same list, chipped with their name so you always know it wasn't yours — and it never spends your AI budget, because only you decide whether to write a card for it.

Their additions show up on your lesson screen too, so you'll see them before class.

Stuck anywhere in this guide? Head back to Help — the FAQ covers the odd cases, and the report-a-problem button at the bottom reaches a human.