Import Questions Into Quizizz: Wayground Spreadsheet Guide

Wayground, the platform still widely known as Quizizz, imports questions from an .xlsx spreadsheet built on its own template. In the creator go to Create, Assessment, Start from scratch, scroll past the question types to the Import existing files row, and choose Spreadsheet. The template has eleven columns: Question Text, Question Type, Option 1 through Option 5, Correct Answer, Time in seconds, Image Link, and Answer explanation. The field that breaks most imports is Correct Answer, which takes the option number from 1 to 5 rather than the letter.

That last point is worth repeating before anything else, because it fails quietly. A spreadsheet full of A, B, C, and D uploads without an error and produces a quiz where the answer key is wrong on every question. You find out when a student argues, or when you notice a class average that makes no sense.

This guide covers the template column by column, the three rules that decide whether a file uploads cleanly, what the other import routes are good for, and what gets left behind on the way in. The specifics here were read from Wayground's published template file in August 2026.

Where the spreadsheet import actually lives

The menu path is the first place people get stuck, because the Import option sits below the question types rather than above them:

1. Click Create and choose Assessment.
2. Select Start from scratch.
3. Scroll past every question type category until you reach Import existing files.
4. Click Spreadsheet.
5. Upload your .xlsx file and follow the prompts.
6. Review the questions Wayground read out of it, edit anything wrong, then Publish.

Wayground publishes the template as a Google Sheet. The normal route is to make your own copy, paste your questions into it, then use File, Download, Microsoft Excel to get the .xlsx the importer wants.

The template, column by column

Column	Required?	What it accepts
Question Text	Required	The question stem, one row per question
Question Type	Optional	Multiple Choice, Checkbox, Fill-in-the-Blank, Open-Ended, Poll, or Draw. Blank defaults to Multiple Choice
Option 1	Required except Open-Ended and Draw	Text for the first choice
Option 2	Required except Open-Ended and Draw	Text for the second choice
Option 3, 4, 5	Optional	Three more choices, so five in total
Correct Answer	Depends on type	The option number from 1 to 5. Comma separated for Checkbox, such as 1,2,3. Leave blank for Open-Ended
Time in seconds	Optional	Blank defaults to 30 seconds
Image Link	Optional	A URL pointing at an image
Answer explanation	Optional	Why the correct answer is correct

Two of these are more interesting than they look. Option 5 means Wayground takes five answer choices where Kahoot's importer stops at four, so a question with five plausible distractors survives intact. And Answer explanation has no equivalent in Kahoot's template at all, which means the reasoning behind each answer travels into Wayground instead of being dropped at the door.

The three rules that decide whether the file uploads

It has to be .xlsx. The importer does not read CSV. If your questions come out of another tool as a CSV, open it in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or LibreOffice, paste the columns into Wayground's template, and save as .xlsx. Since you are pasting into the template anyway, this costs nothing extra. If the question bank you are working from is locked inside a PDF, the practical first move is to get the tables out of the PDF and into a spreadsheet before you touch the template at all, because retyping a hundred rows by hand defeats the point of importing.

Only plain text imports. Bold, italics, colored text, and any other rich formatting is stripped on the way in. A question that depends on a formatted equation needs rebuilding by hand in the creator afterward.

A question body holds one image at most. That is a hard cap, and the Image Link column takes a URL rather than an embedded picture, so the image has to be hosted somewhere the platform can reach.

How to fix the answer key before you upload

Most quiz tools mark the correct answer with a letter. Wayground reads that column as a position, so the conversion is:

• A becomes 1
• B becomes 2
• C becomes 3
• D becomes 4
• A fifth choice becomes 5

If a question genuinely has more than one correct answer, set its Question Type to Checkbox and list the numbers separated by commas, such as 2,3. Do not use a comma separated list on a Multiple Choice row, because only one of them can be right.

Fill-in-the-Blank is the row that reads differently from everything else. There, the Option columns hold the answers you will accept rather than choices to pick from, and Correct Answer stays empty. Wayground's own template shows this with a question about the two moons of Mars, where Option 1 is Phobos, Option 2 is Deimos, and the Correct Answer cell is blank.

What about importing from Google Forms or from text?

Wayground has three import routes and they suit different starting points.

The Google Forms import connects your Google account and pulls a form in directly. It is genuinely convenient, with one catch: imported Google Forms questions arrive as Poll type, which is ungraded by default. If the score matters you have to convert every question to a graded type afterward, which on a fifty question form is slower than the spreadsheet would have been.

The document and paste routes go through Wayground AI, which reads what you give it and proposes questions. That path accepts PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX, JPG, and PNG. It processes only the first 16,000 characters of a file, takes up to 10,000 characters of pasted text at a time, and handles one file per upload. Reasonable when your source is already a written worksheet, and worth reviewing carefully because the model is inferring the answer key rather than being told it.

The spreadsheet route is the one to use when the answer key matters, because you state it explicitly in a column instead of hoping something infers it correctly.

Can you import questions into Quizizz without a spreadsheet?

Not as a reliable bulk operation with a known answer key. The AI routes will read a document and propose questions, but you are reviewing its interpretation rather than asserting your own. There is also no public Wayground or Quizizz question import API, so any tool advertising a one click push into the platform is describing something that is not published. Treat the spreadsheet as the documented path and keep your own master copy of the questions, because there is no export that hands them back in the same shape.

Where the questions come from in the first place

The import is the easy half. Writing twenty stems and up to a hundred answer options is the part that keeps a quiz from getting built at all, especially when the material is a recorded lecture or a training session you now have to rewatch.

If your source is a recording, you can generate the questions from the video and export them in the shape Wayground's template wants. You get stems, options, the correct answer marked, and a one line explanation for each, which maps onto the template columns directly, including the Answer explanation column that would otherwise sit empty. Each question also carries a timestamp back to the moment it tests, which is useful when a learner disputes an item, even though timestamps have no column to travel in.

The editing pass still matters. Questions generated from your own recording are a strong first draft rather than a guarantee, so read them once before you publish. What disappears is the typing.

What gets left behind

Three things do not survive the trip, and it is better to plan for them than discover them:

• Timestamps. No column exists for them. Keep your PDF or CSV export alongside the Wayground version so you can still trace a question back to the moment it came from.
• Formatting. Plain text only, as above.
• Anything past the fifth option. Five is the ceiling.

There is also a limit that has nothing to do with the file. Wayground's free Basic plan caps a live session at 30 participants, and its paid tiers are quoted rather than listed with a public sticker price, so what the free plan actually covers is worth checking before you commit a large cohort to one delivery route. If the quiz needs to reach a gradebook and stay retrievable, a QTI package that imports into your LMS as a native quiz is a different and better job. And if you want the same questions to run as a live game instead, Kahoot's spreadsheet import works the same way with tighter limits.

A working checklist

1. Copy Wayground's template into your own Google Sheets or Excel file.
2. Paste the question stems into Question Text, one row each.
3. Fill Option 1 and Option 2 at minimum, up to Option 5.
4. Convert the answer key from letters to numbers in Correct Answer.
5. Set Question Type to Checkbox on any row with more than one right answer, and list the numbers with commas.
6. Add Time in seconds if 30 is not what you want.
7. Paste your explanations into Answer explanation.
8. Strip any bold, italics, or colored text.
9. Save or download as .xlsx.
10. Create, Assessment, Start from scratch, Import existing files, Spreadsheet, upload, review, Publish.

Step 4 is the one to check twice. Everything else fails loudly, and that one fails quietly.