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QuizzyApp for teachers and lecturers

Most of QuizzyApp's heaviest users are revising for professional exams, and a good number of them are being taught by someone who set the material. This guide is for that person: how to run a class on the platform so that the students do the retrieval practice, you see who did it, and nobody hands in a sheet of paper.

The shape of it

Four pieces do the work, and you can adopt them one at a time.

1. A study circle holds the cohort — chat, due dates, reminders and a scoreboard.
2. Quizzes and assignments hold the material, either written question by question or drafted from your notes by the AI and edited.
3. A live competition is the in-class test, on the projector or on their own devices, under exam conditions if you want them.
4. The Studio analytics and the circle scoreboard are your completion record.

Set up the circle

Create a circle that is hidden (so it is not in Discover) with approval on (so only your students get in), and restrict posting to setters so the chat stays a feed of set work rather than a group chat. Share the six-character code in whatever channel the class already uses and approve people as they arrive. Add the term's exam dates on day one: every member gets a countdown card in the chat and countdown reminders, and you never have to answer "when is the exam?" again. Details: Study circles.

Make a co-teacher or a reliable student an admin. Admins can approve members, pin the week's instructions, set the weekly challenge and enter the circle in a league; they cannot change the circle's settings or delete it.

Write the quizzes

Quizzes for a class are usually best made as circle-internal quizzes — created from inside the circle, visible only to approved members, never listed in Explore. They are built in the same editor as any other quiz (Creating a quiz), and three settings matter more for teaching than for public play:

• Topics. Tag each question with its topic. That is what feeds each student's weak-topic tracking, which is the most useful thing the app can tell them — and you — about where they are.
• Explanations. Write one for every question, and enable explanations under Rules of play. The post-attempt review with your explanation beside each wrong answer is the teaching moment; a bare score is not.
• Learning modes. For revision material, enable Revision and Preview so students can study the questions with instant feedback. For a test, leave them off and use Quiz mode only.

If you already have lecture notes, a textbook chapter or a past paper, the AI can draft the questions or extract the existing ones with their answer key; you edit before publishing. It is part of Premium, as is attaching diagrams to questions and going past ten quizzes. See AI quiz drafts.

Set weekly assignments

An assignment is a circle quiz with a due date and a rule about when results are shown. For a class the useful settings are:

• Time window. A start and a due date; the quiz can only be played between them.
• Results after the due date, so early finishers cannot pass answers on — or never to the player, so results go only to you and your setters, the way a marked test would.

Post one a week. On the due date, the circle scoreboard and the assignment's results page are your completion list: who played, who scored what, who has not touched it.

Run a live test

For an in-class test, create a competition (hosting is Premium) from the Studio with these choices:

• Scheduled — host starts manually, so it begins when you say, not when the timetable said.
• Invite only or request approval, so the leaderboard is your class and nobody else.
• Per-question timers and shuffled questions and options, so neighbouring screens are no use to each other.
• Negative marking if the real exam has it; say so in the description.
• Restrict to one platform — the app or the web — so fullscreen and tab-switch enforcement behave the same for everyone.

Students join the lobby before you start; the leaderboard moves live on the projector as they answer. Every scored attempt runs under the fair-play rules — fullscreen in a browser, three strikes for leaving the quiz, a clock that does not stop — described in Exam mode and fair play. Afterwards the final leaderboard stays on the event page and each student can review their own attempt. More in Live competitions.

Read the numbers

The Studio's analytics show, per quiz, how many played, how many finished, the average score and the ratings. Completion rate is the one to watch: a quiz that many start and few finish is pitched wrong or timed wrong. The circle scoreboard shows the same thing per student. Neither replaces marking, but both replace asking "who revised?" and believing the answer.

Publishing beyond the class

Material you have written for one cohort works for every cohort after it. Anything you make can also be published publicly, free or paid, and bundled into a collection — a year's worth of tests as one link with one price. You keep ownership; the platform keeps a percentage of sales, and free quizzes still earn a royalty each time a Premium member downloads them. See Earning as a creator.

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