Diffit alternative for YouTube video quizzes that export to Canvas, Moodle and Blackboard

Can Diffit export to Canvas?

Not as a quiz file. The Diffit export options article lists Google Slides, Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Classroom, Word, PowerPoint, PDF and print. There is no QTI package, which is the file Canvas and Brightspace import into a question bank, so Diffit questions reach Canvas only by being retyped or pasted in one at a time.

Routing them through Google Forms does not solve it either, because Canvas cannot import a Google Form as a quiz. The form stays a form, graded outside the gradebook.

VidQuiz writes a QTI 1.2 zip with imsmanifest.xml at the root on any paid plan. Canvas reads it through Import Course Content for Classic Quizzes and through Import Content in New Quizzes and item banks, and Brightspace reads the same package in its Question Library. One teacher can buy it and import the file the same afternoon.

How much does Diffit cost?

Diffit Basic costs nothing. Diffit Premium for one teacher is $14.99 a month or $149.99 a year, which the Diffit pricing page describes as $29 a year cheaper than paying monthly. Diffit for Schools is a flat annual fee tiered by student enrollment and covers every staff member in the school, quoted on request.

Two buying rules catch people out. Diffit says an individual plan can only be bought by credit card from the teacher account, so a school purchase order will not work, and a school cannot buy individual plans for several teachers at once. Diffit also points out that its school license costs about the same as a handful of individual plans.

VidQuiz is priced for a different job and costs more: $49 a month on Starter, or $288 for a year. It is worth paying for only when the output has to be an LMS quiz file. The Diffit pricing breakdown linked below goes through every Diffit plan in detail.

What is the best Diffit alternative for making quizzes from videos?

It depends on what the lesson needs. If students need the content rewritten at their reading level, in their language, with scaffolds, nothing on this page replaces Diffit and you should keep it. If the job is a graded quiz in Canvas, Brightspace, Moodle or Blackboard built from a recorded lesson, a tool that writes the LMS file is the better fit.

VidQuiz is built for that second case. It takes a YouTube link, or the pasted transcript of a recording that never went to YouTube, and returns multiple choice questions with the correct answer, an explanation and a timestamp. The same set exports as QTI 1.2, Moodle GIFT, a Blackboard tab-delimited file, Google Forms CSV, plain CSV and a PDF with the answer key.

Plenty of teachers use both: Diffit for the leveled reading that goes out before or after the video, and VidQuiz for the graded check that lands in the gradebook.

Does Diffit work with Moodle or Blackboard?

Not through an import file. Diffit exports to Google and Microsoft formats and to PDF, and it can be added to ClassLink and Clever as an app, but there is no Moodle GIFT or Moodle XML file and no Blackboard question upload file in its export list.

VidQuiz exports both. The GIFT file goes into the Moodle question bank through Import, and the tab-delimited file goes into Blackboard through Upload Questions in Ultra or Original. Neither needs a plugin or an administrator.

Is Diffit worth it for a teacher who only needs quizzes?

Usually not. The value in Diffit Premium is the leveled resource, the standards and MTSS alignment and the export to Google and Microsoft tools. A teacher who only wants a graded quiz from a video pays for a reading generator and still has to move the questions into the LMS by hand.

If quizzes are the whole job, compare the cost of that retyping against a tool that writes the file. If differentiated readings are most of the job, Diffit Premium at $149.99 a year is one of the better value tools in the category.