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Multiple choice quiz maker and MCQ question generator

Make a multiple choice quiz or test from a lecture video or your pasted notes, with the answer key and explanations written for you.

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What VidQuiz reads: paste a YouTube link and VidQuiz watches the video itself. For any other source (Vimeo, an MP4, a screen recording, an upload) paste that video’s transcript and VidQuiz writes the questions from it.

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The short answer

VidQuiz is a multiple choice quiz maker that writes the test for you instead of handing you a blank question editor. Paste a YouTube link, upload a recording with its transcript, or paste up to 60,000 characters of notes, and it writes each question with four answer options, marks the correct one, and adds a short explanation, plus a timestamp when the source is a recording. You edit anything you want, then share a link or export to PDF, CSV, Google Forms, QTI, Moodle GIFT or Blackboard.

Writing multiple choice questions by hand is slow, and most of the time goes into the parts nobody sees. You rewatch the recording, decide what is actually worth testing, phrase the stem so it is not ambiguous, then invent three distractors that are wrong but still plausible. Twenty questions can eat an afternoon.

VidQuiz starts from the content instead of the blank page. It reads the full video, pulls the points that carry the meaning, and writes each item as a complete MCQ: a clear stem, four options, one marked correct answer, and a one line explanation of why it is right. Every question keeps a timestamp, so when a learner gets one wrong they can jump straight back to the part of the video that explains it.

You stay the editor. Reword a stem, swap a distractor, delete a question that misses the point, or reorder the set. When it looks right, share it as a link or export it into the tool you already grade in.

At a glance

What you get in every generated MCQ

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Part of the question	What VidQuiz produces	Can you edit it?
Stem	A single clear question drawn from a specific point in the video	Yes, fully editable
Options	Four answer choices, with distractors taken from related content	Yes, reword or replace any option
Correct answer	One option marked correct	Yes, you can change which is correct
Explanation	A one line reason the answer is right	Yes, fully editable
Timestamp	The moment in the video the question came from	Shown on the question, used for review
Export	PDF, CSV, Google Forms ready CSV, QTI 1.2, Moodle GIFT, or a Blackboard tab delimited file	Choose the format at export

Questions come from the video or text you provide. Timestamps apply when the source is a recording. Review before you publish, you stay in control of the final test.

How do you generate multiple choice questions from a video?

Paste the video link, hit generate, and review the draft. VidQuiz works through the whole recording, selects the testable points, and writes each one as a multiple choice question with four options, a marked correct answer, and an explanation. A typical video produces a first draft in seconds rather than the hour or two the same set takes by hand.

The step people underestimate is review. AI is good at spotting what a video actually claims and bad at knowing which of those claims matter for your specific learners. Read the draft with that filter, cut the questions that test trivia instead of understanding, and you end up with a tighter test than the one you would have written from scratch.

Can I make a multiple choice quiz from my notes?

Yes, as long as the notes are text you can copy. Switch the source to Paste transcript, paste the notes, a chapter, a handout or a lecture script, and generate. The paste mode needs at least 40 characters and takes up to 60,000, which is roughly a long textbook chapter, and it works with no video at all. The questions come back in the same shape: stem, four options, the correct answer marked and a one line explanation.

What it does not do is open a file. VidQuiz reads no PDF, Word or PowerPoint upload, so copy the text out of the document first. For a scanned page, that means running it through OCR before pasting. The upside of working from text is control: you decide exactly which pages the test covers, so a quiz on chapter four does not wander into chapter five.

What makes a good multiple choice question?

A good multiple choice question tests one idea, states it plainly in the stem, and offers distractors that a learner who half understands the material would genuinely consider. The classic failure is the giveaway: three absurd options next to one obviously correct answer, which measures reading speed rather than knowledge.

Put the whole question in the stem, so it makes sense before the options are read
Test one point per question, not two ideas bolted together
Keep all four options a similar length, since the longest option is often the answer
Avoid "all of the above" and "none of the above", which reward test taking tactics
Write distractors from real misunderstandings, not from nonsense
Say why the answer is right, so a wrong answer teaches something

How many questions should a quiz have?

For a video lesson, eight to twelve questions is a practical range. That is enough to cover the main points and give a score that means something, and short enough that people finish it. For a graded exam built from several videos, twenty to forty questions spreads the weight across topics so one unlucky item does not decide the result.

Length matters less than coverage. Ten questions spread across the whole video beats thirty drawn from the first ten minutes, which is a common failure when someone writes questions while watching and runs out of energy partway through.

Can I export the questions to my LMS or Google Forms?

Yes. Every quiz exports six ways: PDF for printing or handing out, CSV for spreadsheets, a Google Forms ready CSV laid out in the column order Forms importers expect, QTI 1.2 packaged as a zip for Canvas, Brightspace and Sakai, Moodle GIFT for Moodle, which reads neither QTI nor CSV, and a tab delimited .txt for Blackboard, which wants QTI 2.1 rather than 1.2 and imports the text file in both course views. Nothing is locked in, so a quiz you build here can live in the system you already grade in.

What you get with mcq generator

Complete MCQs, not prompts

Each item ships as a full question: stem, four options, the correct answer marked, and a short explanation. Nothing to finish by hand.

Distractors that do work

Wrong options are drawn from the surrounding content, so they are plausible enough to test real understanding instead of being obvious throwaways.

Traceable to the source

Every question carries a timestamp back to the moment in the video it came from, so you can check it and learners can review it.

What you can do

Everything multiple choice question generator gives you

Paste a YouTube link and VidQuiz reads the video itself; for anything else, upload it with its transcript. Either way it writes the questions and you edit anything before you share. You stay in control of the final quiz.

Make a multiple choice test from a lecture video or pasted notes
Get four options with one correct answer marked
Read a short explanation for every answer
Jump to the timestamp each question came from
Edit stems, options, and order before you share
Export to PDF, CSV, Google Forms, QTI, Moodle GIFT or Blackboard

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Pick a sample or paste your own link, generate the quiz, then answer the questions. Each one is tied to a moment in the video, with the answer and a short explanation.

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Good questions

Questions about mcq generator

They are a strong first draft, not a finished exam. VidQuiz writes clear stems, plausible distractors, and an explanation for every answer, drawn from the video you provide. Read the draft and edit before you publish, because you know your learners and the AI does not.

Four, with one marked correct. That is the standard format for most classroom tests and LMS question banks. You can reword or replace any option, and you can change which option is the correct one.

Yes. Paste up to 60,000 characters of text, such as notes, a chapter or a script, and VidQuiz writes the questions with no video involved. For recordings, a YouTube link is read directly, and for other video files you paste the transcript alongside, since VidQuiz has no speech-to-text of its own. PDF and Word files are not read, so copy their text in.

Yes. Every question includes the correct answer and a one line explanation of why it is right, plus a timestamp to the moment in the video it came from when the source is a recording. That turns a wrong answer into a review step instead of a dead end.

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