Quizizz alternative: what the Wayground plans cover and how to build the quiz from a video

What are the limits on the free Quizizz plan?

The Basic plan is free for every teacher with no credit card and no commitment, and Wayground caps it in four places that matter: 20 stored activities, 100 students, a limited set of question types rather than the full 20+, and limited Google Classroom sync without grade passback.

The storage cap is the one that bites first. Twenty activities sounds generous until a second year of teaching the same course, at which point you are deleting old material to make room for new material. The 100 student figure is fine for a few sections and tight for a large lecture course.

The other thing to check before you plan a budget around it is the add-on list. The Wayground Original Library item bank, school and district benchmark assessments, standards growth and mastery reporting, state test and universal screener data import, and in-person professional development are all listed as add-ons rather than as features of the paid tier. A quote that covers School and District does not automatically cover those.

Can Quizizz generate questions from a video?

Not from the content of the video. Wayground has a substantial AI toolset, including an AI Question Generator, presentation maker, rubric generator, lesson plan generator and worksheet generator, and it can generate, import and adapt content. Those tools work from topics, prompts and documents you provide.

The interactive videos feature is a different thing again, and it is easy to conflate the two. It lets you drop a video into a lesson and pause it at chosen points to check for understanding, but you write those questions and you choose those pause points. The video is the delivery vehicle, not the source material the questions are drawn from.

That distinction is the whole reason this comparison exists. If you have a two-hour recorded lecture and no questions yet, an AI generator that works from a topic will give you plausible questions about the topic, not questions about what was actually said in your recording. Drawing them from the recording itself is what keeps them tied to the material students were assigned.

Can you export a quiz out of Quizizz?

Wayground is built around delivering the assessment inside the platform, with the reporting attached, rather than around handing you a portable file for another system. That is a reasonable product decision and it is why the integrations list points at rostering and grade passback rather than at file formats.

It becomes a problem in one specific situation: when the questions have to live somewhere else. A department standardizing on Canvas quizzes, an instructor building a printed makeup exam, or a team archiving a question bank before a platform change all need a file. If that is your situation, generating the questions somewhere that writes QTI 1.2, Moodle GIFT, a Blackboard tab-delimited upload or a Google Forms CSV saves you retyping them later.

How much does Wayground cost?

Basic is free for every teacher, forever, with no credit card. School and District is quote only: Wayground publishes no price for it and takes payment by purchase order, check, credit card or ACH. Wayground also states it holds ESSA Level 3 (Promising Evidence) status, which makes it eligible for ESSER, EANS and Title I federal funding, and there are separate Corporate Plans for organizations that are not K-12 schools.

The full plan-by-plan breakdown, including the business tiers and why the figures on review aggregators do not match what Wayground publishes, sits on the Wayground pricing comparison linked below rather than being repeated here.

What is the best Quizizz alternative for a recorded lecture?

It depends on whether your problem is delivery or authoring, and being clear about which one saves a lot of evaluation time.

If you want students answering live on their own devices with a leaderboard, standards-aligned reporting and rostering from Clever or ClassLink, nothing on this page replaces Wayground. That is what it is for, the free tier is genuinely free, and a district plan buys real infrastructure.

If the questions do not exist yet because the material is a recording, that is a different job. VidQuiz reads a YouTube link and drafts multiple-choice questions with the correct answer, a written explanation and a timestamp back to the moment each one came from, which you edit before anyone sees them. Then you export the file your system wants. The two can also run in sequence: draft from the recording, export a CSV, and bring the questions into whichever platform your students already use.