You can use Google Docs to hold an informal survey. Log in and choose Form from the New menu to get started. Surveys are anonymous, but people can answer them as many times as they want. Because of this, this feature is best for simple kinds of polls, like deciding on a certain day for an event. It's not really meant for student organization elections, for example. Another free polling application that might be worth taking a look at is Micropoll.

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You're probably familiar with using flash cards to learn a series of new concepts -- like the top 100 most-prescribed drugs. But you might not know about free Web-based flash card applications that go above and beyond what you can do with regular flash cards. The most basic advantage of online flash cards is that they're completely free, and they're also accessible anywhere you have Internet access. You can also share sets of flash cards you've created with your classmates, so everyone doesn't need their own set of cards. You can also create a personalized set of flash cards, too, with your own annotations. Some online flash card applications also have special modes to help you learn more quickly, too. Because the application can track which cards you have trouble with, it can help you focus on just the information you're still a little shaky on. There are two flash card applications that are worth taking a look at: Quizlet and cueFlash. Both require free registration to take advantage of all their features, but cueFlash will let you browse card sets without logging in -- and one of their most popular sets is labeled Top 200 Drugs.

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