Welcome to Quiz.ai

This is the first post on the Quiz.ai blog, so it should say what Quiz.ai is and why it exists.

Why we built it

A good quiz is one of the best tools a teacher has. It wakes a class up, it shows in two minutes who has understood a topic and who has not, and it gives learners a reason to remember. The problem has never been the idea. The problem is the hour it takes to write twelve decent questions with plausible wrong answers, at the right level, on the exact objective you are teaching this week.

We built Quiz.ai to remove that hour. You describe the quiz you want, in your own words and your own language, and you get a finished, playable quiz in seconds. "Ten questions on fractions of amounts for Year 5, all set at a Halloween party." "A revision quiz on the causes of the First World War for GCSE." "Twenty questions from this chapter", with the chapter attached. That is the whole workflow.

What it does today

The composer on the homepage is the only thing you need to learn. From the quiz it produces, you choose what to do with it:

• Live game. Learners join on their phones with a code and answer against the clock, Kahoot-style, with speed scoring and a leaderboard.
• Assignment. Send a link. Each attempt is marked against the answer key and you get results per student.
• Pen & Paper. Print a worksheet with the answer key on a separate page.
• Flashcards and practice. Learners work through the questions alone, with the answers hidden until they check.

The assistant stays with you after the first draft. "Make questions four and seven harder." "Add two questions on mixed numbers." "Replace the last question with a bar-model question." Every change lands in the same quiz, so you never start over. Where a question needs a picture, such as a number line, a fraction bar, a clock face or a shape with a missing angle, the assistant draws it.

Quiz.ai works in 21 languages, and the quizzes it writes follow the curriculum of the market you are in, from the national curriculum in England to Common Core in the United States to Kurikulum Merdeka in Indonesia. You can try it without an account. Sign in when you want to keep your quizzes, upload reference material or run it with a class.

Here is one to try before you read on. Open it and choose how to use it:

Who it is for

We started with teachers, and teachers are still who we design for. But most of the people using Quiz.ai in its first weeks were learners quizzing themselves the night before a test. A Year 10 student typing "photosynthesis test tomorrow" needs exactly the same thing a teacher does: accurate questions, at the right level, with wrong answers that are wrong for a reason. So Quiz.ai now treats both as first-class. If it can tell you are studying alone, it puts practice first and keeps the correct answers hidden until you ask.

What we believe a good quiz looks like

A quiz is only useful if the questions are right, so a few rules run through everything Quiz.ai writes:

• Curriculum first. The question matches the objective, and the difficulty matches the year group, not the model's idea of "hard".
• Plain language. Questions read like a teacher wrote them, in the language of the classroom. No markup, no formulas pasted from a textbook, no words a nine-year-old has never seen.
• Honest distractors. The wrong answers are the mistakes a real learner makes. They are the same length and shape as the right one, and the right one is not sitting in the same slot every time.
• Pictures that show, not tell. An image accompanies a question; it never gives away the answer.
• Self-contained questions. Each question stands alone, so a quiz still works as flashcards, as a worksheet or in a different order.

We check generated quizzes against these rules every day and change the assistant when they slip. Most of what we ship is that kind of change.

Where it is going

Three things are next.

Ideas, here on the blog. Themed quiz ideas for the season and the subject, with prompts you can paste in, starting with ten maths quiz ideas for Halloween.

Daily practice quizzes on YouTube. Short quiz videos per curriculum, one objective at a time, for teachers to play to a class and learners to play along with at home. Each video links to its quiz so the class can carry on with it live.

More of the curriculum, in more places. Better coverage of objectives per market, and more languages where teachers are already asking for them.

Say hello

If you teach, or you are studying for something, try it and tell us what the quiz got wrong. That is the most useful message we can get. The contact page reaches a person who reads every message.

Welcome to Quiz.ai. We make learning fun with a quiz.