[WalterBright]

> I hated the high-pressure midterms/finals of my undergrad

The pressure was what got me to do the necessary work. Auditing classes never worked for me.

> I do some spaced-repetition questions of important topics and give students a study sheet of what to know for the quiz.

Isn't that what the lectures and homework are for?

[recursivedoubts]

The quizzes are still somewhat difficult (and fairly frequent) so you have to still get your stuff done (and more consistently than the cramming encouraged by a big midterm/final)

I do spaced repetition in lectures, my homeworks are typically programming problems and, as I said in OP, rely on the student committing to doing them w/o AI. So spaced repetition of the most important topics on quizzes seems reasonable. (It's an experiment this semester)