SimpleQuizMaker for Teachers
Generate professional-quality quizzes from your textbook chapters, lecture notes, and PDFs in under a minute. Track per-student performance, sync with Google Classroom, and reclaim the 4–6 hours a week most teachers spend writing quizzes by hand.
Free forever tier. No credit card. 5 AI quiz generations per month included.
Generate from any source
PDF chapter scans, lecture notes, YouTube lectures, URLs. AI extracts content and structures questions in 10–30 seconds.
Calibrated difficulty
Easy / Medium / Hard mapped to Bloom's taxonomy levels. Match cognitive level to what you actually want to test.
Per-question analytics
See which questions students consistently miss — surface real misconceptions, not just total scores.
Per-student tracking
Class roster view. Identify students who need extra support before the unit test.
No signup for students
Share a link. Students take the quiz on any device. No emails to chase, no accounts to manage.
Google Classroom sync
Assign directly to your Classroom course. Scores sync back to the gradebook automatically.
A weekly classroom workflow that takes 15 minutes
The teachers who get the most out of SimpleQuizMaker fold it into the same routine every week. Saturday morning, coffee, 15 minutes:
- 5 minutes: Upload the chapter PDF or paste the lecture notes for the upcoming week.
- 3 minutes: Generate the quiz (10–15 questions, Medium difficulty, Multiple Choice + 2 Short Answer).
- 5 minutes: Review every question. Edit any with a weak distractor. Verify negative-phrased items.
- 2 minutes: Schedule or share. Assign in Google Classroom or copy the link to your LMS.
The hour-and-a-half you used to spend writing the quiz becomes 15 minutes. Multiply by 36 school weeks and you've recovered the equivalent of 2 full work weeks per year.
Built for the way teachers actually work
Every grade level, every subject
We maintain 36 dedicated subject generators — from elementary through college, math through literature. Each one is calibrated to the curriculum and difficulty expectations of its subject and grade band. See the full list at /quiz-subjects.
AP, IB, and exam prep
For AP teachers: ask for “AP-style” in the topic field and the AI produces College Board-aligned questions. AP quiz generator. For SAT/ACT prep teachers: dedicated SAT and ACT generators with section-specific question types.
Differentiation in seconds, not hours
Generate three versions of the same quiz at different difficulty levels — Easy for students who need scaffolding, Medium for the class baseline, Hard for accelerated learners. Each version takes 30 seconds. See differentiated quizzes without extra hours.
Honest analytics — not vanity metrics
The dashboard shows what actually matters: per-question difficulty (item difficulty), discrimination (does the question separate strong from weak students?), and per-student score patterns. Use the data to revise weak questions and identify students who need a one-on-one conversation. See the teacher's guide to quiz analytics.
Integrations that fit your existing stack
- Google Classroom — assignment creation and grade sync. Setup guide
- Canvas, Schoology, Moodle, Blackboard — share quizzes by link; students log in via your LMS, take the quiz, scores are exportable as CSV.
- Microsoft Teams, Zoom — embed the quiz link in a meeting chat or share at the end of class.
- CSV export — every gradebook accepts CSV. Manual but universal.
Pedagogically responsible by design
We've written extensively on the pedagogical question of AI-generated quizzes. The short version: AI is a productivity tool, like a calculator. The teacher's judgement still matters most — what to test, how to structure the assessment, when to use it formatively vs summatively.
- · Is using AI to make quizzes cheating?
- · Designing assessments AI can't cheat
- · Feedback without grades — formative assessment playbook
- · Quiz fatigue — when to use less assessment, not more
- · AI literacy for teachers (2026 update)
Pricing built for school budgets
Most teachers we talk to are paying for tools out of pocket. The free tier — 5 AI generations per month, unlimited students per quiz, no credit card — is enough for a weekly classroom quiz workflow on a single subject. The Teacher plan ($19.99/mo, often expensable through a school PD or technology budget) unlocks unlimited generations, longer quizzes, full analytics, and student progress tracking. See pricing.
Use cases by grade and subject
Elementary (K–5)
Phonics check-ins, math fact drills, reading comprehension from short stories, social-studies vocabulary quizzes. See quiz maker for elementary school.
Middle school (6–8)
Chapter quizzes, novel-study comprehension, science vocabulary, history primary-source analysis. See middle school quiz ideas.
High school (9–12)
Unit assessments, AP/IB prep, lab quizzes, essay-precursor knowledge checks. See high school quiz maker.
College / higher ed
Reading-check quizzes, lecture-recall quizzes for flipped classroom, MCAT/LSAT/CFA-style practice for professional-prep courses. See college professor quiz tool.
What teachers tell us
We don't publish vanity testimonials (anyone can make those up). What we hear consistently from the teachers who use SimpleQuizMaker week-in, week-out:
- · “The Friday quiz used to take me 90 minutes. Now it takes 15 minutes including review.”
- · “I can finally differentiate without working a third evening.”
- · “The per-question analytics surfaced two distractors that were misleading my students for a year.”
- · “My students don't need to make accounts. That alone was worth switching from Quizizz.”
For honest comparisons of how SimpleQuizMaker stacks up against other tools, see our alternatives pages.