About Teacher Elf
Teacher Elf is a free classroom tool for teachers who want their students to actually look forward to vocabulary practice. It mixes spaced repetition, simple games, and an AI conversation partner so a single deck can power a whole term's worth of activities.
Why we built it
Most classroom flashcard apps are either polished but expensive enterprise tools, or free but rough around the edges. Teacher Elf aims at the in-between: well-crafted, completely free for teachers, and built around the way students actually learn: short, frequent, varied practice rather than endless drill.
What you get
Spaced repetition
Cards you struggle with come back sooner. Cards you know fade into the background. The schedule adapts to each learner.
Built-in games
Multiple Choice, Matching Pairs, Connect Pairs, and Fill-in-the-Blank work with any deck. Word games like Hangman, Word Search, Anagram, and Spelling join in when the answers are words, and Dictation is there for language decks.
AI Tutor for languages
Free-form practice with a conversation partner that uses your deck's vocabulary and corrects mistakes gently.
Classrooms and assignments
Teachers create student accounts, assign decks or learning paths (step-by-step lessons), and review progress in one place.
Free, with no asterisks
Teacher Elf is provided free of charge for classroom use. There are no ads, no upsells, and no data sold to third parties. See the Privacy Policy for the full list of services we work with and why.
Made by
Teacher Elf is built and maintained by Michael Karén. Bug reports, feature requests, and just-saying-hello are welcome on the contact page.