Paste a reading you have assigned, or attach it as a PDF, Word file or photo, and get multiple-choice questions with answer explanations for a quick formative check or exit ticket. The first 5 questions are free with no signup.
“Without their main predator, elk numbers grew, and the elk changed how they behaved. After wolves returned, their biggest effect may not have been the number of elk they killed. Elk began avoiding places where they could easily be trapped, such as narrow valleys and stream banks. Scientists still argue about how strong the Yellowstone cascade really is. Scientists test claims by collecting data in many places over many years.”
Why: The source states that after wolves were reintroduced, elk began avoiding places where they could easily be trapped, such as narrow valleys and stream banks, which altered their grazing patterns.
Why: The source explains that without wolves, elk numbers grew, and their behavior changed as they grazed more in open areas, indicating that the absence of predators can lead to increased elk populations.
Why: The source mentions that scientists test claims about the Yellowstone cascade by collecting data in many places over many years, emphasizing the need for comprehensive evidence to understand ecological changes.
A formative check has one job: tell you, before the next lesson, which students understood the reading and which idea to reteach. Three to five well-chosen multiple-choice questions do that faster than a written response you have to mark overnight. Paste the text your class read, choose 5 questions on Easy or Medium, and you have an exit ticket in under a minute.
Each question comes with a one-line explanation tied to the text. Those explanations are useful when you go over answers with the class, because they point back to the sentence in the reading that settles the question.
AI-written questions are a first draft. The generator is grounded in the text you paste and avoids "all of the above" and throwaway distractors, but it can still produce a question that is ambiguous, one where two options are defensible, or one that tests a minor detail rather than the idea you taught. In the example on this page, the evidence question is fair only because the reading states that claims are tested with data from many places over many years; with a looser reading it would be a guess.
A quick review routine: delete any question you would not be happy to defend in front of the class, check that the keyed answer is actually stated in the reading, and make sure the questions you keep cover the main idea rather than three details from one paragraph. Generating 10 and keeping the best 5 is usually faster than editing weak ones.
Easy asks about facts stated directly in the text, which suits checking whether students did the reading. Medium mixes in how and why questions. Hard asks for application and comparisons between similar ideas, which works for older students or as an extension set. You can generate the same reading at two levels to differentiate within one class.
Download as PDF or TXT needs a free account (one click with Google). The TXT file pastes easily into a slide, a worksheet or the quiz tool in your learning platform, where you can edit questions before students see them. The PDF prints as it is, with the answer key on its own section at the end. Up to 10 generations per hour.
Not inside the tool. With a free account, download the quiz as TXT, then edit it in a document or paste it into your LMS or quiz platform. That is also the moment to delete weak questions and check every keyed answer against the reading.
Yes. Every question marks the correct option and gives a short explanation based on the text, so you have a key and a talking point for going over answers. In the PDF and TXT downloads the answer key is a separate section after the questions, so for a student copy print only the question pages or delete the key from the TXT.
Yes, it is free for anyone and the first 5 questions need no signup. Some teachers share the reading and ask students to generate a quiz as a self-check before a lesson; the explanations tell them where in the text to look when they get one wrong.
It follows the vocabulary and complexity of the text you paste, so a Year 7 reading gives simpler questions than a university article. Easy difficulty also keeps distractors less tricky, which helps with younger students or a first check after new material.
Paste the link into Notiq and get the whole lecture as a 10–20 page notebook — with quizzes built in.