Quiz Maker

About the Quiz Maker

Write a quiz with the question types a real test needs — one answer, more than one answer, true or false, short answer and a number with an allowed difference — then take it right here, with an optional countdown, shuffling, and feedback either after each question or at the end. The result breaks the score down question by question, shows the right answers next to yours, and lets you retake just the ones you got wrong.

With a pass, share it as one link. The whole quiz is packed into the part of the address after the #, which browsers never send to a server, so nothing is stored anywhere: whoever opens the link sees only the quiz, takes it in their own browser, and their answers stay on their device. For paper, a pass also prints the quiz with an answer key on the last page, and for a learning platform it exports Moodle XML, GIFT or Aiken; you can bring in GIFT or Aiken questions written elsewhere. Without a pass you build and take the quiz here as a free preview: your score and counts in full with the first half of the question-by-question review, the link shortened, a QR code that does not scan and the first lines of each export, with printing locked. Whoever opens a link you share takes the quiz and sees their whole result, without needing a pass.

Common uses

• A teacher sharing a revision quiz with a class as a single link, which students open without an account.
• Making a paper test with its answer key in one step.
• Moving questions into Moodle or another learning platform as Moodle XML, GIFT or Aiken, or reading GIFT and Aiken questions out of one.
• Testing yourself on your own notes, and retaking only what you got wrong.

How the share link works, and what it cannot do

The quiz is compressed and written after the # in the address. A browser never sends that part to a web server, so the quiz travels inside the link itself: there is nothing to store, you don’t need an account, and the page works offline once it has loaded. Whoever opens the link sees only the quiz; the editor stays behind Open it in the editor, and their own quizzes in that browser are left as they were unless they choose Keep it as my own quiz.

What follows from that: the link contains the answers. Anyone with the link can read the questions and the right answers out of it, so it is for practice and revision, not for an exam you have to invigilate. Answers and scores are never collected either: each person sees their own result on their own device and can copy, download or print it to send to you, with no pass needed on a quiz opened from a shared link. Very large quizzes make long links; some chat apps shorten or wrap a long link, so paste it as text, or send the JSON file, if the link breaks. A QR code suits shorter quizzes: it holds about 2,300 characters.

How answers are marked

• One answer and true or false: right or nothing.
• More than one answer: by default the whole set must be right. With partial credit on, each right option picked earns a share of the points and each wrong one takes a share off: points × max(0, (right picked − wrong picked) ÷ number of right options).
• Short answer: compared with each accepted answer, ignoring extra spaces, straight and curly quotes and a full stop at the end; capital letters are ignored unless you tick Capital letters matter. Add every spelling you accept.
• A number: the typed number must be within the allowed difference. A decimal point or a decimal comma, fractions (3/4), mixed numbers (2 1/2), thousands separators (12,000, 12 000, and 12.000 where a dot separates thousands), a percent sign and powers of ten (1e3, 6.02 × 10^23) are all read, and so are digits such as ٣ or ४. When a number could be read two ways — 3,140 is three thousand one hundred and forty in some countries and 3.14 in others — it is read the way the student’s country writes numbers, and the box shows Read as … before they move on.

Each question carries its own points (0.5 to 100), and the result shows the total, the percentage and the pass mark if you set one. With feedback after each question, an answer is fixed once it has been checked.

Moodle XML, GIFT and Aiken

The exports follow the formats Moodle documents (Moodle XML, GIFT, Aiken); in Moodle, use the question bank’s Import page and choose the same format.

• Moodle XML keeps the most: every question type, each question’s points as its default mark, case-sensitive short answers, the explanation as general feedback, and partial weights for several right options. Those weights give each right option a share of the marks, so Moodle gives part marks for some of the right options even where this page, with partial credit off, gives none.
• GIFT is plain text and holds every question type: = marks the right option and ~ a wrong one, several right options get percentage weights, true/false is {TRUE} or {FALSE}, short answers list every =answer, and a number is {#100:0.5}. Each question is named by its number and first words. GIFT has no field for points or for case-sensitive answers, so Moodle gives each question its default mark.
• Aiken is one-answer multiple choice only: the question on one line, options as A. … and a final ANSWER: line. Questions it cannot hold are listed rather than dropped silently.

Import reads GIFT and Aiken (it recognises which one it is), the JSON file this page saves, and a quiz link. From GIFT it reads one-answer and several-answer questions (with weights), true/false, short-answer and numerical questions, including ranges such as {#1.61..1.62}, a missing word in the middle of a sentence, [html] text, ::titles::, // comments and $CATEGORY lines. Essay and matching questions are listed as not imported, and anything this page has no place for — feedback on single answers, answers worth part of the marks — is listed as changed.

Printing a paper quiz

With a pass, or after unlocking your quiz, printing gives the quiz with room to write, numbered questions and lettered options, and an answer key on its own page at the end (you can leave the key out). Choose Save as PDF in the print dialog for a PDF. Shuffling is ignored on paper so the key matches the printed order, and explanations are printed with the key for marking. After an attempt, Print result gives the score and every question with the answer given and the right one.

Maths in questions

Write maths in TeX between \( and \) (or $ and $) inside a line, or between \[ and \] (or $$) on its own line: \(x^2 + y^2 = r^2\). It is shown as MathML, which screen readers can read, and it travels in the share link and the exports as its TeX source, in the \( … \) form Moodle’s maths filter shows. Prices such as $5 stay plain text; switch maths off in Settings if your questions use $ in other ways.

Limitations

• The share link carries the questions and the answers, so it is unsuitable for a graded exam: anyone with the link can read the key out of it.
• Nothing is collected: there is no dashboard of who took the quiz or what they scored. Students copy, download or print their own result.
• No pictures in questions, and no essay or matching questions (GIFT files with those list them as not imported).
• Moodle XML files are written but not read; to bring questions in, use GIFT, Aiken or this page’s JSON file.
• Very long quizzes make long links; links over about 200,000 characters are refused.
• Your quiz is saved in this browser only; the JSON file (or, with a pass, a share link) is the way to move it to another device.

Privacy

Quizzes are built, taken and marked in your browser. The share link carries the quiz itself, so nothing is uploaded or stored on a server, and nobody collects the answers or scores.