A Quizizz Alternative Now That It Is Wayground

Wayground (formerly Quizizz) is a broad classroom platform. It runs live sessions and asynchronous assignments, generates quizzes with AI from documents, websites, and YouTube videos, and on its School and District plans adds a large premium library, standards-aligned reporting, accommodation profiles, admin dashboards, and Canvas, Schoology, and Clever integrations. If your school already buys a Wayground licence, or you need those institutional features, it is the stronger choice and SimpleQuizMaker does not try to match it. The picture changes for someone buying for themselves. Wayground's plans page shows a free Basic plan and quote-only School and District plans billed by purchase order; it does not list a public individual price. The free plan caps storage at 20 activities and limits question types. SimpleQuizMaker publishes one paid plan, Student, at $2.99/month or $29.99/year, with a 14-day money-back guarantee. For that price you get AI generation from PDFs, Word files, images, website URLs, and YouTube videos up to 45 minutes, quizzes of up to 100 questions, printable PDF exports with answer keys, Word and Google Forms export, and Google Classroom assignment. Students join from a link with only a name and work at their own pace, and you see each student's submission and per-question stats. The free plan is enough to try the whole flow from pasted text. The decision rule: if you need live sessions, a big ready-made library, district rostering, or school-level reporting, choose Wayground. If you are an individual teacher, tutor, or student who mainly wants to turn your own material into self-paced quizzes and study tools at a known price, choose SimpleQuizMaker. Be clear about the gaps: no live mode, no LMS integration beyond Google Classroom assignment and exports, no school plans, no importing from other tools, and no Android app yet.

Illustrative scenario: a private tutor used the free Quizizz plan for years and now sees it under the Wayground name. They have hit the 20-activity storage limit and would pay for more, but the paid plans on the plans page are for schools and districts and need a quote. What they actually do each week is simple: take a student's worksheet or textbook chapter and turn it into a practice quiz. The tutor tries SimpleQuizMaker's free plan first, pasting a page of notes and generating a ten-question quiz. Because their material is mostly scanned worksheets and PDFs, they move to the Student plan to upload files directly and use image OCR. They send each learner a link, the learner types their name and works through it at home, and the tutor reviews per-question stats before the next session. For learners who prefer paper, they export a printable PDF with an answer key. They do not bring old quizzes across, since import is not supported; they regenerate from the source material instead.