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ClassMarker Alternative

A ClassMarker Alternative That Starts From Your Material, Not a Blank Form

ClassMarker is a long-established online testing platform built around manually authored exams. SimpleQuizMaker starts one step earlier: hand it a PDF, an image or a topic and it writes the questions, then shares the quiz by link — no account needed for the people taking it.

No credit card required · 5 free AI quiz generations/month

Why Teachers Switch From ClassMarker

Common frustrations that bring users to SimpleQuizMaker

You write every question yourself

ClassMarker is a test builder, not a generator. The questions, options and answer keys are all typed in by hand, which is where the hours actually go.

Built for formal assessment

Its strengths are exam delivery, proctoring and certificates. That is a heavier setup than most people need for a class quiz or a study check.

No study loop after the test

A finished test is the end of the workflow. There is no flashcard mode or spaced-repetition queue to keep the material alive afterwards.

Source material is not an input

A lecture PDF, a photo of a textbook page or a YouTube lecture cannot be turned into questions — they are just reference material you read while typing.

What SimpleQuizMaker Does Better

Why ClassMarker users love the switch

The questions are written for you

Paste a topic or upload a PDF, DOCX, image (OCR), URL or YouTube link and get a full quiz in about ten seconds.

Takers need no account

Share one public link. Students answer in the browser, on a phone if that is what they have, and results come back to you.

Quiz, flashcards and review in one place

The same upload becomes a quiz and a flashcard deck, and missed questions feed an SM-2 spaced-repetition queue.

A free plan you can actually use

5 AI generations a month and unlimited submissions, no card required.

SimpleQuizMaker vs ClassMarker

Side-by-side feature comparison

FeatureClassMarkerSimpleQuizMaker
AI writes the questions
Quiz from PDF / image / YouTube
Manual question authoring
Takers need an accountDepends on setupNo
Flashcards from the same source
Spaced-repetition review
Per-question analytics
Proctoring / certificates

Get Started in 60 Seconds

No setup, no credit card, no learning curve

STEP 1

Upload or paste

Add a PDF, image, DOCX, or paste text from your lesson material

STEP 2

AI generates quiz

Our AI reads the content and creates questions with answer keys instantly

STEP 3

Share & track

Send the link to students and watch results come in with full analytics

Popular Use Cases

Teachers who like ClassMarker but not the hour of typing before every quiz

Anyone turning an existing PDF, slide deck or textbook photo into a quiz

Study groups that want the quiz to become flashcards afterwards

Quick low-stakes checks where proctoring and certificates are overkill

ClassMarker vs SimpleQuizMaker — The Honest Verdict

When each tool actually wins — no marketing spin.

ClassMarker and SimpleQuizMaker solve adjacent problems rather than the same one. ClassMarker is an assessment platform. It has been around a long time, it is built for delivering tests under controlled conditions, and it offers proctoring and certificates. If you are running formal, supervised exams where identity and integrity matter, that is what it is for, and this is not a like-for-like replacement. SimpleQuizMaker is aimed at the step before the test exists. Give it the material — a lecture PDF, a photo of a page, a topic — and it writes the questions, then shares them by link with no login for the people answering. Afterwards, the same material becomes flashcards and a spaced-repetition queue. Decision rule: if the hard part of your week is invigilating the exam, ClassMarker. If the hard part is writing the questions in the first place, SimpleQuizMaker.

What Switching From ClassMarker Actually Looks Like

A concrete migration scenario.

A secondary-school teacher used ClassMarker for end-of-unit tests and liked the result reporting, but every test meant an evening of typing questions from the unit PDF. She kept ClassMarker for the two formal exams a term and moved weekly checks to SimpleQuizMaker, uploading the same unit PDF and editing the generated questions instead of writing them. The weekly quiz went from about an hour to roughly ten minutes, and the missed questions now feed a review queue her students use before the real exam.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does SimpleQuizMaker replace ClassMarker for formal exams?

Not entirely. ClassMarker is built for supervised assessment and offers proctoring and certificates; SimpleQuizMaker does not. For graded classroom quizzes, homework checks and study practice it covers the same ground with far less setup.

Do my students need to create an account?

No. You share a public link and they answer in the browser. Only the person creating the quiz needs an account.

Can I still write questions by hand?

Yes. Everything the AI generates is editable, and you can add, rewrite or delete questions before sharing — or write the whole quiz yourself.

Is there really a free plan?

Yes — 5 AI quiz generations a month plus unlimited submissions, with no credit card. The paid Student plan raises the generation limit.

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ClassMarker is the better invigilated-exam platform. SimpleQuizMaker is the better way to get from your source material to a quiz at all.

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