Product Updates

What's New: YouTube & URL Quizzes, Math Rendering, and Printable Exports

July 23, 20264 minJames Okafor · EdTech Researcher & Instructional Designer

In this article

1.Generate a quiz from a YouTube video or article link
2.Math and chemistry notation, rendered properly
3.Printable exports: student copy, answer key, DOCX, and Google Forms
4.What's next

TL;DR. Three things shipped: you can now generate a quiz directly from a YouTube video or article URL (Student and Teacher plans), math and chemistry notation renders properly instead of showing raw LaTeX, and you can export a quiz as a printable PDF (student copy + separate answer key), an editable DOCX, or a script that creates an auto-grading Google Form.

Generate a quiz from a YouTube video or article link

Open the quiz builder and pick From URL as your content source. Paste a YouTube link or an article URL, and SimpleQuizMaker fetches the transcript or the readable article text and generates a quiz from it — the same AI pipeline used for pasted text and uploaded files.

A few practical limits:

YouTube videos need captions. If a video has no captions (manual or auto-generated), there's no transcript to work from.

Video length caps by plan — up to 45 minutes on Student, up to 90 minutes on Teacher.

This is a Student and Teacher feature. Free accounts can still paste text, upload a topic, or type a prompt — YouTube and URL input specifically require a paid plan.

The quiz page now also shows where a quiz came from — a small "Generated from" link back to the original video or article.

Math and chemistry notation, rendered properly

If your source material has an equation or a chemical formula, the AI now writes it in LaTeX and SimpleQuizMaker renders it as real notation — in the quiz builder preview, while taking the quiz, in the review screen, on flashcards, and in printed/exported PDFs. Previously this showed up as raw text like `$x^2 - 4 = 0$`; now it renders as an actual equation.

This matters most for STEM content — algebra, chemistry equations, physics formulas — where readability of the notation is the difference between a fair question and a confusing one.

Printable exports: student copy, answer key, DOCX, and Google Forms

Open any quiz you own and click Export. Four formats:

PDF — Student copy: a clean, printable version with no answers shown — just the questions and space to answer.

PDF — Answer key: the same quiz with correct answers and explanations, as a separate document so you're not handing students the key by accident.

DOCX: the same content in an editable Word document, in case you want to tweak wording before printing.

Google Form script: a downloadable Google Apps Script that creates an auto-grading Google Form from your quiz when you run it from script.google.com.

PDF export is available on Student and Teacher plans; DOCX and the Google Forms script are Teacher-plan features. Free accounts can still use the original print view (with an "include answer key" checkbox) that's been part of SimpleQuizMaker from the start.