AI-Generated Quizzes: How to Save a Ton of Time
Quizzes have always been an integral part of teaching. First, they are one of the most effective ways to evaluate what students understood. But they also reinforce learning, increase engagement, and help teachers track the progress. However, designing a good quiz can be incredibly time-consuming, especially when you need to come up with fake answers (distractors) that are plausible enough to challenge students but not so misleading that they confuse them. This part alone can take hours.
Then there’s the part of structuring the quiz itself, balancing the difficulty of the questions, ensuring a mix of formats like multiple-choice, true or false, open questions and others. And then comes distributing. Which sometimes can be tricky as well. If you’ve ever spent a full afternoon crafting distractors or creating variations for different difficulty levels, you know exactly how exhausting it can be. And this is just for one class—imagine replicating this across multiple subjects and grades!
AI to the Rescue
Since lately we’ve got a variety of AI-powered quiz-making tools, which have completely transformed this process. These tools do all the heavy lifting for you. They analyze content—whether it’s text, video, PDFs, or even audio—and generate quiz questions based on that material. And the best part? They do it in seconds, eliminating the need for hours of manual labor.
These tools can generate questions in whatever format you need and not only do they save time, but they also ensure that quizzes are comprehensive and tailored to the material at hand.
3 Categories of AI Quiz-Making Tools
Looking at all the different types of tools in the market, we can group them into three main categories:
1. Part of a teacher’s Multitool (example: MagicSchool)
MagicSchool and other similar projects contain broader suite of tools designed for educators. The quiz-generation feature there is just one of many. It can assist teachers with lesson planning, creating reading materials, and more. The quiz tool is easy to use, generating basic questions quickly, but it lacks some of the specialized features found in other tools that focus solely on quiz creation.
It’s convenient when you use many of their tools in the same place, a one-stop-shop: it may help with reporting or planning out your syllabus. However, if quizzes are your primary need, you might find other tools more effective.
2. Universal Chatbot: ChatGPT (and others alike)
ChatGPT and its peers like Gemini and Anthropic are capable of almost any text tasks. You can just paste the content into ChatGPT and ask it to generate quiz questions. Want a list of 10 multiple-choice questions from a historical document? Done. Need true/false questions from a scientific article? No problem.
While it’s not specifically designed for quizzes, ChatGPT provides flexibility that some dedicated tools don’t. However, because it isn’t focused exclusively on quiz-making, you may need to do more editing and formatting afterward. And you need to have a good prompt. Speaking about prompting ChatGPT for quizzes, we can teach you how (along with lots of other valuable information, check our AI-Powered Teaching course.
3. Specialized Tools: Quizgecko, Involve.me, Questgen and others
These tools focus specifically on quiz creation (some on forms creation) and stand out for their more intuitive interface, ease of use and a wide range of features. There are plenty of them in the market, but let us show you some that we like:
• Quizgecko: Is the most known and the most popular one. Allows you to input any type of content, from text to web pages and even files like PDFs, and within moments, it generates a comprehensive quiz. It solves the distribution and checking problems providing the links to the quizzes and grading them automatically (with enhanced feedback for some types of questions). You can try it here.
• Involve.me: Involve.me positions itself as an interactive tool that’s more than just a quiz maker. It’s a bit stronger in marketing or business use cases where quizzes are used for lead generation or customer engagement. For education, it’s great if you want quizzes that do more than test knowledge—they can engage students on an interactive level with multimedia elements and gamification.
• Jotform: Known primarily as a form-building tool, Jotform also excels in quiz-making. If you’re looking for a quiz tool with customization options—where you can add extra fields, track user progress, and even use conditional logic—Jotform is a strong contender. Its strength lies in flexibility, but it may take a little more setup time compared to tools like Quizgecko.
• QuizRise: QuizRise is another powerful, dedicated quiz generation tool. Similarly it can pull questions from multimedia sources and supports export to LMS platforms. It’s an excellent choice for educators who want fast, accurate quizzes with minimal manual input.
• Questgen: A great specialized quiz maker. Just as in the apps described above in Questgen users can input text, documents, or web links, and Questgen will analyze the content to produce multiple types of questions. It creates quizzes that align directly with specific educational material, streamlining the process of preparing tests and assignments with minimal manual input
• Quizlet: Quizlet is an adaptable question maker used to create interactive study sets and quizzes. It allows teachers to design custom study sets from scratch or use pre-made sets, converting them into flashcards, quizzes, and games for versatile teaching approaches.
AI Makes Multi-Modal Quizzes a Reality
One of the standout features of these AI tools is their ability to generate quizzes from various formats. Today’s AI-powered platforms can create quizzes from videos, audio recordings, or even documents like PDFs and PowerPoints. This multimodal approach not only saves time but also allows teachers to create more engaging and dynamic assessments.
For example, you could upload a TED talk (give a YouTube link), and these tools will automatically pull out key points and turn them into quiz questions. Similarly, audio recordings from language lessons or interviews can be converted into quizzes with comprehension checks, making it ideal for language teachers.
Which Tool Should You Choose?
All of them have their merits, and the choice depends on your specific needs. For educators who want a simple, efficient, and specialized quiz maker, specialized tools like Quizgecko or Jotform could be an easy choice. Though if you are a heavy user of ChatGPT or educators’ multi-tool apps, you might find it easier to do everything in the same place. Don’t forget about the aspect of quiz distribution, depending on your needs the interfaces of the specialized products might suit better for sending over to the students.
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