How to turn lecture slides into a quiz in ten minutes
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Every teacher teaches from different slides and books, so a quiz from a general question bank often tests the wrong thing. Writing your own questions takes hours. An AI quiz generator can write a first draft from your own material in a minute or two, and you spend your time checking and improving it, which is the part that needs a teacher. Here is a method that works, and what to check.
1. Choose the material that matches the lesson
Upload the slides or notes you actually taught from: a PowerPoint file, a Word document, a PDF or plain text. For a long PDF, name the pages you taught (for example pages 40 to 62) so the questions come from that part, not the whole book.
2. Say what you want
Give the quiz a name, the number of questions, the level (easy, medium or hard) and the language. A topic or chapter name helps the AI focus. Ten questions is a good length for a class warm-up; twenty for a revision quiz.
3. Read every question
Treat the draft as a first draft from a quick assistant. Check that each question is answered by your material, that exactly one answer is right and that the wrong answers are believable but clearly wrong. Look at the source note, which shows where in the material the question came from.
- Delete questions that test trivia or wording instead of understanding.
- Fix any answer that is wrong or ambiguous.
- Make sure the difficulty matches what you taught.
- Add a reason to the answer so students learn from a mistake.
4. Set marks and time
Give harder questions more marks (1 to 10) so the quiz is marked like an exam. Questions that need calculation can have their own, longer time. Keep the usual time short enough to keep the pace, but long enough to read the options.
5. Share one link
Publish the quiz and share the link or a QR code on your screen. Students open it on a phone or a computer, enter a name and a roll number and play. No accounts are needed. Each student sees the questions in their own order.
6. Use the results in the next class
Look at which questions most students got wrong and at the commonest wrong answer. That tells you what to explain again, which is the main value of a quiz.
What makes a good source
Slides with full sentences and clear definitions give better questions than slides with only pictures or single words. If your slides are mostly images, add a few lines of notes to the slides, or paste a short text summary of the lecture, so the AI has something to base the questions on. Speaker notes are read too, so a sentence of explanation in the notes can improve a question.
Turn your own slides into a quiz
Upload your slides, book pages or notes and the AI writes multiple-choice questions from them. You edit, set the marks and time, and share one link. No student accounts.
See the quiz gameFrequently asked questions
- Can the AI write wrong questions?
- Yes. That is why you read every question before publishing. A good tool shows the source of each question so you can check it quickly.
- Can I use my own book instead of slides?
- Yes, upload the chapter pages as a PDF and name the page range. Use material you have the right to use.
- Is it free?
- HireFlow Agent's quiz game is free while we launch.