NotebookLM Quiz Exporter: How to Export a Quiz

There is no NotebookLM quiz exporter, because there is no quiz export. Google's own help page for the feature lists the flashcard controls and the quiz controls side by side: flashcards include "Download your flashcards as a CSV file", and quizzes offer full screen, a hint and the navigation arrows. No download, no share, no file. That asymmetry, and not any missing setting in your account, is why the search exists.

What follows is every route out that actually works in August 2026, checked against Google's documentation rather than against forum folklore, plus what each one costs you in effort and what it loses on the way. NotebookLM was renamed Gemini Notebook in July 2026, so if the menus in an older tutorial do not match yours, that is why.

Does NotebookLM have a quiz export button?

No. Quizzes and flashcards are both generated in the Studio panel and both count as artifacts, but Google gives them different control sets, and only one of them can leave the notebook. Here is the documented difference.

Control	Flashcards	Quizzes
Download as CSV	Yes	No
Full screen viewer	Yes	Yes
Previous and next navigation	Yes	Yes
Hint	No	Yes
Explain the answer	Yes	Yes
Shuffle	Yes	No
Delete a single item	Yes	No
Restart or retake	Yes	Yes

One more restriction is worth knowing before you plan around the flashcard download. Google warns that depending on the publisher's content restrictions, you may not be able to download artifacts generated in a notebook that has a Google Play Books ebook as a source. If a textbook is in your source list, the one export that does exist can be switched off too.

How to export a NotebookLM quiz to Google Forms

There is no path that does this in one step, and any tutorial promising one is describing something else. Google Forms only imports questions from another Google Form: it has no CSV, Excel, Word or PDF importer of its own. So even if Gemini Notebook produced a file tomorrow, Forms would still not read it directly.

The three routes that work, in order of how much of your afternoon they cost:

1. Retype it. Fine for eight questions, miserable for forty, and you lose the explanations unless you copy those too.
2. Ask the notebook chat to restate the quiz. Prompt it to write out every question, all four options, the correct answer and a one line explanation as plain text, then paste that into a Google Doc. You get text you can work with, though the chat is rewriting rather than exporting, so proofread it against the quiz.
3. Build the quiz somewhere that writes a Forms ready CSV, then push the rows in with a Sheets add-on or an Apps Script running FormApp. This is the only route that scales, and it is the one worth setting up if you do this monthly.

Our walkthrough of importing questions into Google Forms from a CSV covers the third route step by step, including the exact column order Forms tooling expects and the two caps that catch people out: 300 pieces of content and 75 sections per form.

Why is there a flashcard CSV download but no quiz download?

Google has not said. The likeliest reason is structural rather than deliberate neglect. A flashcard is two fields, a front and a back, which maps onto two CSV columns with nothing lost. A multiple choice quiz question is a question, an ordered set of options, a flag on the correct one, an explanation and often a hint, and there is no single agreed file format for that. Google Forms, Canvas, Moodle and Blackboard each want a different shape.

That is not an excuse so much as an explanation of why the gap has stayed open. It also tells you what a real fix looks like: not a generic download, but an export per destination.

Do the NotebookLM quiz exporter extensions work?

Browser extensions that scrape the rendered quiz out of the page do exist, and the search suggestions for Chrome and Firefox versions are the clearest possible signal of unmet demand. Treat them with the caution you would give any extension that reads a page containing your work material.

Three things to check before installing one. It needs permission to read the notebook page, which means it can read everything else in that notebook. It breaks whenever Google changes the markup, which happens more often than you would like during a rename. And a scraped quiz is still just text, so you are back at the formatting problem the moment you want it inside an LMS. None of that makes them useless, but they solve the copying, not the importing.

How do you get a quiz you can actually grade?

Work backwards from where the score has to land. If it needs to reach a gradebook against a named student, nothing that lives inside a personal notebook is going to get you there, and the shortest path is to generate the questions in something that exports into the system already holding your roster.

That is the job VidQuiz does for recorded material. Paste a YouTube link and VidQuiz reads the video itself, drafting multiple choice questions with the correct answer marked, a short explanation of why it is correct, and a timestamp back to the moment each question came from. For a Vimeo link, an MP4, a webinar recording or a screen capture, paste that video's transcript alongside it, because VidQuiz has no speech-to-text of its own. You edit the draft, then export it as a Google Forms CSV, QTI 1.2 for Canvas or Brightspace, Moodle GIFT, a Blackboard tab delimited upload, a printable PDF with the answer key after a divider, or a plain CSV.

If your source is a PDF or a slide deck rather than a recording, the same idea applies one document over: turn the document itself into a set of questions and skip the notebook step entirely. Which tool fits depends on what you fed the notebook in the first place.

Does the usage limit affect how many quizzes you can generate?

Yes, though not as a quiz counter. Since September 2, 2026 Gemini Notebook has used compute based usage limits that factor in the complexity of your prompt, the models and features you use, and the length of your chat. The quota refreshes every five hours until you reach a weekly limit, and you can check what is left under Settings then Usage.

In practice you will see it before you hit it. The Studio panel shows an expected AI cost bar before a generation runs, and when you are out of limit the web version offers Generate later, which queues the artifact and can take a couple of hours to come back. The container limits are separate and still apply: 100 notebooks, up to 50 sources each on the free tier, and 500,000 words per source. Paid tiers raise the source ceiling to 100, 300 and 600. The full breakdown sits on our comparison of NotebookLM quiz limits and pricing.

What to do if your NotebookLM quiz disappeared

Generated artifacts live in the Studio panel of the notebook that produced them, so a missing quiz almost always means the container changed rather than the quiz breaking. Check three things in order: that you are in the right notebook, that your access to a shared notebook has not been downgraded, and that nobody with edit access deleted it. Generating or deleting a quiz requires edit access, so a collaborator can remove yours.

If the notebook itself is gone, that is the end of it. Google states there is currently no recovery option for deleted notebooks. Which is the strongest practical argument for getting anything you care about out of the notebook the day you make it, by whichever of the routes above you can stomach.

The short version

NotebookLM will write you a good quiz and then keep it. Flashcards download as CSV, quizzes do not download at all, Google Forms will not import a file even if you had one, and browser extensions solve the copying without solving the formatting. If the quiz is for you, none of that matters. If it is for other people, generate it somewhere that produces a file, and pick the export by where the scores need to end up. Our quiz format converter guide maps each export to the platforms that accept it cleanly.