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AI quiz drafts: from notes, documents, links and photos

The AI tool writes a first draft of a quiz from material you already have. It never publishes anything: every question it produces lands in the editor for you to keep, change or drop. It is part of Premium.

Two jobs it does

Generate. Give it a chapter, lecture notes, a study guide, a web page or photographs of handwritten notes, and it writes new questions from the points worth being tested on.

Extract. Give it a past paper, a worksheet or a question bank that already contains questions, and it copies them out — each question, its options and, if you attach the answer key, the correct answer — so you can publish an existing paper as a playable quiz without retyping it.

Pick the job that matches your material. Asking it to generate from a paper produces new questions about the paper, which is rarely what you wanted.

What you can give it

• Pasted text. Anything from a paragraph to a chapter. The notes tool looks for structure — headings, bullet points — so notes that have some produce better questions than a wall of prose.
• Documents. PDF, Word, slides or plain text. The text is read on your device and only the text is sent, so a large file with pictures is not a large upload. You can add several documents to one request.
• A link. Paste an article or a notes page and the text is read from it. Only http and https links work, and a page that needs JavaScript to show its content will come back nearly empty — copy the text and paste it instead.
• Photos. Photograph pages of handwritten notes, diagrams or a printed paper, from the camera or your gallery. Photos are shrunk on your device before they are sent. There is a limit to how many pictures one request can carry; the app tells you when you reach it.

A scanned PDF that is really a set of images has no text to read. The tool will tell you it looks like a scan — photograph the pages instead.

Choosing what comes back

Before generating you set:

• Question types and how many of each — multiple choice or true/false, and the count. Larger batches take longer; expect roughly half a minute for a hundred questions.
• Difficulty.
• Options per multiple-choice question. Each question gets as many options as it needs up to the number you set.

For extraction there is nothing to choose — the questions are whatever the material contains.

Reviewing the draft

The draft appears as a list with a tick on every question. Untick the ones you do not want; only ticked questions are added to your quiz. Then they are ordinary questions in the editor — edit the wording, fix an option, rewrite an explanation, attach an image, set a time limit — and the quiz is published the same way as any other.

Check three things in particular before you publish:

1. The marked answer is actually correct. Generated questions are drafted from your material, not verified against it. Extraction is only as good as the answer key you supplied.
2. The distractors are wrong. The most common flaw in a draft is an option that is arguably also right.
3. The explanation says why. Rewrite any explanation that merely restates the answer.

You are responsible for what you publish under your name, the same as if you had typed it. Material you do not hold the rights to should not be turned into a public quiz — see the Community Guidelines.

When it does not work

• "Not much to read." The document, page or photo had almost no text. Try a different source or paste the text directly.
• "Partly generated." Some question types could not be drafted in the time allowed. What did come back is shown; review it and ask again for the rest.
• Too big, or ran out of time. Remove a picture or a document, or ask for fewer questions, and try again.
• The AI is busy. Give it a moment; nothing you entered is lost.

The other AI tools

Two smaller tools share the same engine and the same Premium requirement.

Notes summary (Hub → AI notes) condenses pasted notes or photographed pages into the points worth being tested on, and can turn that summary straight into a quiz.

Explanations and picks. After an attempt, ask why an answer was wrong and get a short explanation from the AI tutor. On Home, the AI looks at the topics you keep losing marks on and recommends quizzes — and a study plan — built around them.

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