ARC Sheep Brain Practical - Anki Flashcards

Create an ‘AnkiWeb’ an Account

You can view these cards on Android without an account, but creating an account makes everything easier and tracks your progress; it’s free.

1. Visit https://ankiweb.net/ and create an account, agree to the Terms

View on Mobile

Viewing on Android is free; install the app and search shared decks for “ARC Sheep”:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ichi2.anki

Viewing on Apple devices is not free and costs $24.99 (you still have a really good camera though):

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ankimobile-flashcards/id373493387?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

View on Web

Viewing online is free, but first you need an ‘AnkiWeb’ account, and the desktop software installed.

To view the cards online:

1. Download and install the software: http://ankisrs.net/#download (there are versions for each OS)
2. Login to https://ankiweb.net/
3. Visit https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/940233116
4. Download the flashcards ‘deck’ (scroll down for Download button)
5. Import the deck to the Anki desktop software
6. Click the ‘Synchronize’ icon in the desktop software (upper right-hand corner)
7. Visit the ‘Study’ tab on https://ankiweb.net/ - the deck should show up for study

View on Desktop/Laptop PC

Viewing on desktop is free, but first you need an ‘AnkiWeb’ account, and the desktop software installed.

To view the cards on a desktop:

1. Download and install the software: http://ankisrs.net/#download (there are versions for each OS)
2. Login to https://ankiweb.net/
3. Visit https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/940233116
4. Download the ‘deck’ (scroll down for Download button)
5. Import the deck to the Anki desktop software
6. Click “ARC Sheep Brain Practical” on the ‘Decks’ screen
7. Click ‘Study Now’

Anki Card Ratings

• “Again” (you had no clue — Anki will show you the card again within minutes)
• “Hard” (sometimes this option won’t show, I’m not sure why)
• “Good” (you got it)
• “Easy” (you got it easily — Anki will wait 3 or more days before showing you the card again).

Daily Study Sessions
By default, Anki wants you to study a certain number of flashcards per day — when you open a deck of cards, cartain cards will be ‘due’ for study.

For example, if you study all the cards in the deck in one day, there will be zero cards remaining (or ‘due’) for the rest of the day. The next day, a certain number of the flashcards will be available in the deck again for study (based on your feedback of which cards were difficult or easy).

It’s possible to open the deck on a particular day and find there are zero cards due, because on previous days you’ve marked all of the cards ‘Easy.’ Anki has determined you’ve learned all the cards and so the software delays showing you the learned cards for several days. This helps you from wasting time studying cards you already know.

Custom Study Sessions
If you run out of flashcards in a deck, because you’ve marked them all ‘Easy’ and Anki determines you’ve learned all the cards, you can still study using the ‘Custom Study Deck,’ for which you can build a custom study session outside the main deck larning schedule.

Deck Settings
Anki uses a ‘spaced repetition’ algorithm, spacing out flashcards according to difficulty. The algorithm can be adjusted with Anki’s “deck” settings — the settings are not intuitive, and are somewhat dense, even when referencing the documentation (http://ankisrs.net/docs/manual.html ) — this is my first Anki deck, and I took my best shot at adjusting these settings (I don’t completely understand them!); if you want, you can change the “deck” settings for your own studying sessions.

• they are not labeled, structures are identified only with a dot (approximating a pin)
• green dots indicate the card is a nerve (nerves may be ambiguous on some brains, this may help to learn their general position)
• the brains and pictures are not always ideal, the brains are the same ones we have in class

• each structure is shown in more than one picture, and on more than one brain
• compared to the study handouts, brain orientations are sometimes rotated and flipped
• some structures are ambiguous (particularly the nerves!), my excuse is: no brain is perfect, and this will force you to compare sources and synthesize a general strategy for settling ambiguities based on their positions relative to recognizable structures