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How to create a quiz from scratch
How to create a quiz from scratch

Easily create your own quizzes for your classes

Criscille Aguilar avatar
Written by Criscille Aguilar
Updated over 2 months ago

Creating quizzes to test knowledge or reinforce learning can be a fun and engaging experience. Here at Quizalize, we offer various ways for teachers to create quizzes from scratch or import ones from different sources for multiple purposes, such as education, training, or entertainment.

To get started, please go to our Create page:


To quickly create a wide range of questions tailored to specific topics, please use our Make a smart quiz with AI help:

You are now on our Smart Quiz editor page:

Type in your topic in the textbox, select your preferred language and grade level:

AI will display generated questions.

Click the icon to add the question to the quiz you are constructing:

You can keep regenerating your search to have a new set of questions:

Or, add personalized ones, even hints and explanations.


Teachers can control, edit and improve any AI-generated content.

To save the quiz to your library, please click the Save and Preview button:

Your smart quiz is now ready to be used in your class anytime.


To incorporate more question variations, align your quiz to a curriculum standard and tag each question to a curriculum skill, and many more, please select the Classic quiz editor:


Give a title to your quiz and click on the Add a new question button to construct your first question:

When you've completed your quiz, click the Save and give to class button to assign it immediately or the Save to my library button to give it to your class later.

Pro Tip: If you have a Premium account, tag your quizzes to your state curriculum whenever possible; otherwise, the student data will not populate your Mastery Dashboards.


Play quizzes you've already made...

In Google Forms:

As soon as you have chosen that option, you will be directed to this page:

Go to your Google Forms, select a quiz you wish to import, and copy its URL link:


Paste the link and click "Import"

Sign in to your Google account or give us access:

Once the import is successful, you can either edit it in our classic quiz editor or hit "Continue" to save it to your library and start assigning it to your class:

Here's your imported Google Forms quiz:



Click the "in Quizlet" button to get started:

Add your title and select the question type you want your quiz to be:

Go to your Quizlet account and select a quiz you wish to import:

Click the more option of your set and select "Export":

An export window will prompt. Make no changes and click the "Copy text" button:

Go back to our import page, paste the copied set, and hit the "Import" button:

Note: The Quizlet "terms" will be imported as the answers, while the "definitions" will be imported as the questions. However, you can interchange them.

Quizlet import is successful!


Import Spreadsheet

We have two import spreadsheet options, each with a different template and format. For a successful import, please upload the correct file to where you downloaded the template.


You can download our template first and follow its format:

You can align the quiz to a curriculum or use the simple template:

Here's a sample template of the spreadsheet if you will tag it:

However, for the simple template, please follow the format for the questions and answers. For the CORRECT column, please use uppercase letters only:

In the Meta sheet, make sure to add your quiz title and email address:

Once ready, select the import option:

Select a file:

Click on the file you wish to import:

Once the import is successful, you can either import another file again or open the quiz:

Your quiz is ready! Now, assign it to your class so your students can play them right away.

Check out the sample Excel imported quiz: Geo Trivia


Lastly, here's how to upload resources such as PDFs, YouTube videos, and web links that you can use as follow-up tasks or directly assign as activities to your class:

And that's it! You're now ready to use Quizalize in class. 

Feel free to click here if you'd like to edit an existing quiz or find a curriculum-tagged quiz.

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