Flashcards allow you to create your own customizable decks for sparking conversations and running icebreakers. Flashcards are a great way to engage your participants and create stronger connections. 🥰

• 🎥 Video explainer: Flashcards
• Creating flashcards
• Flashcard types
• Basic cards
• Interactive cards
• Call-to-action (CTA) cards
• Adding images, videos, and GIFs
• Using flashcards in-session
• Using flashcard decks in breakouts
• Breakouts setup
• During breakouts

🎥 Video explainer: Flashcards

Here’s Chris showcasing how to set up flashcard decks, add them to breakouts, and use them in-session!

Creating flashcards

As with any tool in Butter, you can either create flashcard decks:

• in your room’s Toolbox or Agenda before a session; or
• live during a session from the ‘Tools’ menu.

To create a new flashcard deck before a session, go to your toolbox in the room setup screen.

Select + New Tool and then Flashcards. Give your deck a name, select the card type (Basic/Interactive/CTA), then create your flashcard!

You can add as many cards as you’d like to a deck by hitting Add card in the left-hand panel—there’s no limit! Go nuts.

Then just hit Save and you’re ready to go. 🙌

Flashcard types

If you like variety, you’re in luck! There are 21 different card formats to choose from, including Basic, Interactive and CTA (Call-to-Action) cards.

Basic cards

Basic cards are just your standard flashcards with text, image, and/or video. They’re great for prompting discussions.

There are ten basic cards to choose from:

1. Text only
2. Text and image
3. Image and text
4. Image/video and text
5. Video only
6. Image/gif only
7. Two images
8. Three images
9. Four images
10. Image grid

You can also:

• Flip your flashcard: Ever wished that the flashcard had a backside? Now it does! Flip the card and add text on the back. Click on Card can be flipped to enable it.
• Randomize your deck: Enable to have your deck shuffled when using it in your session! Just select Randomize card order when creating your deck.

Here’s an example of a basic text flashcard in use during a live session:

Interactive cards

With interactive cards, participants can stamp their avatar anywhere on the flashcard 💫

There are seven different types of interactive cards:

1. Either or images: Use them for quick icebreaker votes (E.g. Are you a dog or a cat person?)
2. Either or text: Great for “would you rather” questions!
3. Image/video and text: Ask people to stamp themselves on a picture, video, map, or chart.
4. Image/gif only
5. Three images
6. Four images: Great for scale questions and the like
7. Image grid: Use it for mood check-ins or ‘what’s one thing you can’t live without?’ check-ins.

Call-to-action (CTA) cards

CTA cards are clickable, interactive cards that you could use to direct participants to do certain actions. “Buy now,” “Subcribe to newsletter/community,” or “Download here” are typical examples of simple calls to action.

There are four different types of CTA cards:

1. Text only
2. Text and image
3. Image and text
4. Referral: Comes preset with your own unique Butter referral link — which you can also change to your own!

Adding images, videos, and GIFs

To add images and GIFs to your cards, you can:

• choose a free image from the Unsplash image library
• choose a free GIF from the Giphy library; or
• upload your own image.

For videos, you can upload your own video.

You also have the option to Fill or Fit visuals. When you Fit an image, the frame will fit the image, keeping its original aspect ratio. When you Fill an image, the image will crop to fill the frame.

Using flashcards in-session

Once you’ve created a flashcard deck in your room toolbox or added it to your agenda, you can access the deck during your live sessions.

To access the deck in session, open up your Tools menu in the lower-left hand side, and select the deck you want to use.

Using flashcard decks in breakouts

Flashcards are a great way to encourage discussion and debate in breakouts!

Breakouts setup

You can assign flashcard decks to your breakouts in advance from your toolbox.

• After you’ve created your flashcard deck, go to the breakout you want to assign the cards to. Choose Add tool > Flashcards
• For Groups, flashcard decks will be assigned to all groups. For Rooms, you can choose which rooms to assign the deck to.
• You can choose to create one from scratch, or pick one from your Room Toolbox, or the Butter public gallery.
• Just hit ‘Save’ and you’re ready to go!

During breakouts

Once your breakouts start, each room or group will have access to the flashcard deck you created!

In breakouts, any participant can control the deck. So each breakout can run through the deck on their own.

In the main room, only facilitators can control the deck.

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