Quiz Maker for Corporate Training & L&D
Turn your SOPs, training decks, and policy PDFs into auto-graded knowledge checks. Compliance audit trail, per-respondent item analysis, CSV export to your HRIS or LMS.
Free plan to try it, no credit card. PDF upload and CSV export are on the Student plan ($2.99/mo).
Where SimpleQuizMaker fits in an L&D stack
Most L&D teams already have an LMS — TalentLMS, Docebo, Cornerstone, Workday Learning, SAP SuccessFactors. The LMS is great at delivering courses, tracking completion, and exposing reports to HRBPs. Where they all fall short: actually authoring the assessment items inside each course. Question authoring in any LMS is a manual, one-at-a-time slog.
SimpleQuizMaker is the authoring layer. Feed it a PDF (policy, SOP, compliance handbook, product spec, sales playbook) and it produces a usable 20-30 question bank in under 2 minutes. You review, edit, and either share the SimpleQuizMaker link directly or export to your LMS as QTI / CSV.
Use cases
Annual compliance training
HIPAA, SOC 2 awareness, anti-bribery, code of conduct, data privacy, harassment prevention. Upload the existing policy document; generate questions; deploy to all employees. CSV export (Student plan) gives you the audit trail your compliance team needs: name, completion timestamp, score, and time spent.
New hire onboarding (week-1 checks)
Build a quiz from your employee handbook. Drop the link into the welcome-week task list. New hires complete it on day 3 or 4. You catch confusion early (people asking the same question to HR three weeks in) by seeing where misses cluster.
Product knowledge for sales
Upload your product fact sheet, battle cards, or release notes. Generate a 20-question quiz. Run it quarterly to verify the whole sales team has absorbed the new positioning. Reps with low scores get one-on-one enablement; the results view shows each rep's score.
Customer support training
Upload your help center articles or internal SOPs. Generate scenario quizzes (“A customer reports X. What's the correct first response?”). New CX hires complete before going live; tenured agents review quarterly when the product changes.
Security awareness
Upload your security policy or the latest phishing-awareness deck. Generate scenario items (“Which of these is a phishing email?”). Run quarterly. Track which teams have lowest scores and route them to additional training.
Manager / leadership development
Upload your manager handbook or training notes. Generate scenario items on performance reviews, difficult conversations, comp philosophy. Run for new managers in their first 90 days.
Compliance-grade audit trail
For trainings that have a compliance dimension (annual, regulatory, certification), what auditors actually want to see:
- · Name of every employee who took it
- · Timestamp of completion
- · Score and percentage, plus each answer
- · Time-on-quiz (so you can spot 30-second rubber-stamp completions)
SimpleQuizMaker's CSV export (Student plan) covers all of these. Apply your own passing threshold in the spreadsheet, and note which policy version the quiz came from in the quiz title or description. Drop it into your evidence binder or wire it into your GRC tool.
Bulk deployment patterns
For 50-5,000 employees, the typical pattern:
- 1. Build the quiz once. Review and edit until tight.
- 2. Publish; copy the shareable link.
- 3. Email it to a distribution list (or post in Slack / Teams / Intranet) with a deadline.
- 4. Track completion via the SimpleQuizMaker dashboard, CSV export, or the live Google Sheets feed.
- 5. One reminder email at the halfway point. Final reminder 48 hours before deadline.
- 6. Pass to HRIS for the formal completion record.
Item analysis = better training content
The most valuable output of compliance training isn't the pass rate. It's the item analysis: which questions did the most employees miss? Those are the topics your training isn't covering well. Use the item analysis to update your training material — not the quiz.
Example: 80% of employees miss a question about reporting a near-miss security incident. The fix isn't to drop the question — it's to add a clearer section to the security policy. Then regenerate the quiz from the updated source.
Security & data handling
Quiz authors sign in with Google or email and password (password reset is built in). Quiz takers don't need an account — they enter their name. Submissions live against the author account on Hetzner EU infrastructure. We don't sell or share data. There is no SSO, SCIM, or team plan; teams use the link-share + CSV export pattern.
FAQ
Can I gate the quiz to my employees only?Yes (Student plan). Restrict by email domain (@yourcompany.com) so external visitors with the link can't complete.
Does it work with our LMS? Yes via QTI 1.2 export (Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard; Student plan) or CSV (everything else). There is no direct LMS integration.
Pricing for larger orgs? There are two plans: Free and Student ($2.99/mo, one seat). There is no team or enterprise tier; talk to us about team use.
What about translations? Source material can be in any language; the model generates questions in the same language. Multi-language quiz delivery (one link, language-detect served) on roadmap.
Are AI-generated questions audit-defensible? Yes — you reviewed and approved every question before publishing; AI generation is just the drafting step. The audit trail attaches to your review and approval, not the model.