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Video to multiple choice questions, instantly
Turn a video into ready-to-use multiple choice questions.
What you are looking at
Three quizzes VidQuiz generated from three real YouTube videos. They are saved output, not generated in your browser. Pick one to answer it, and open the source video to check the questions against what is actually said in it.
Your own video gets a fresh quiz once you sign up.
We have not read that link.
This page only serves quizzes that were already generated, and it does not send your link anywhere. Reading a video takes about half a minute of real work on our side, so it runs in your account, not in an anonymous demo.
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
Last updated July 2026
To turn a video into multiple choice questions, paste the YouTube link, or upload the file with its transcript, and let the generator read the spoken content. VidQuiz returns MCQs in a fixed shape: four options, the correct answer marked, a one line explanation of why it is right, and a timestamp back to the moment in the video the question came from. Every stem, option, and key is editable before you share. Deliver it as a browser link learners take without an account, or export to Google Forms, a QTI package for Canvas or Blackboard, Moodle GIFT for Moodle, PDF, or CSV.
When you need video to multiple choice questions specifically, VidQuiz is built around that output. Paste the link and the AI reads the video, then writes a set of MCQs, each with four options, the correct answer marked, and a one-line explanation of why it is right.
Multiple choice is fast to take and easy to grade, which makes it the workhorse format for courses, training, and classrooms. Generate a clean set in seconds, edit the options or stems to suit your audience, then share a link or export to your LMS. Every question is yours to adjust before it ships.
At a glance
What comes back in every generated multiple choice question
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| Part of the question | What you get | Can you change it |
|---|---|---|
| Question stem | A direct question about a specific point in the video | Yes, rewrite freely |
| Options | Four choices, with distractors drawn from the material | Yes, edit, cut, or add |
| Answer key | The correct option marked | Yes, reassign it |
| Explanation | One line on why the answer is right | Yes, or delete it |
| Timestamp | A chip pointing at the source moment | Kept with the question |
| Export | Share link, Google Forms CSV, QTI, Moodle GIFT, PDF, CSV | Pick per quiz |
Questions are generated from the video you provide and are a first draft, not a guarantee. Review the set before it counts toward a grade.
How do you generate multiple choice questions from a video?
Give the generator the video and it does the reading. Paste a YouTube link, or upload a file with its transcript, and VidQuiz works through the spoken content, picks out the points that are actually testable, and writes each one as a multiple choice question with four options and the key marked. A twenty minute video usually yields a full set in under a minute, which is the difference between a quiz that gets built and one that stays on the to do list.
The part that stays human is judgment. Whether a question is fair, at the right level for your audience, and worth asking at all is your call, and every question is editable before anything is shared. What the generator removes is the mechanical work: transcribing, hunting for the testable moments, and inventing plausible wrong answers.
How many options does each question have?
Four options per question, with one marked correct. Four is the standard for a reason: it keeps the guess rate at twenty five percent, which is low enough for the score to mean something, while staying quick to read on a phone. Five options rarely improve a quiz because the fifth distractor is usually filler, and three options make guessing too cheap.
You can edit that. Cut an option down to three if the material only supports three honest choices, add a fifth, or rewrite any distractor that gives the answer away. The generated set is the starting point, not a fixed format.
Are the distractors any good?
The wrong answers are drawn from the video itself rather than invented at random, which is what makes a multiple choice question worth asking. A distractor built from a related point in the same material forces the learner to actually distinguish between two things they heard, while a random wrong answer is eliminated on sight and the question tests nothing.
They still need your eye. Watch for two distractors that are effectively the same answer worded differently, and for a correct option that is noticeably longer than the others, which is the oldest tell in multiple choice writing. Both are quick fixes in the editor and both are worth the thirty seconds.
Can you export the questions to an LMS or Google Forms?
Yes, five ways. A QTI 1.2 package imports into Canvas, Blackboard, or Brightspace as a native quiz with per question grading. A Moodle GIFT file covers Moodle, which reads neither QTI nor CSV. A Google Forms ready CSV rebuilds the quiz as a Form. PDF gives you a printable version with an answer key for a paper sitting. Plain CSV drops the whole set into a spreadsheet or a question bank.
If none of that is needed, the share link is the fastest route. Learners open it in a browser, answer, and see their score, with no account to create and no seat to license. That last part matters for cost: takers are not metered, so a quiz sent to two hundred people costs the same as one sent to five.
Related reading
- The general video quiz maker covers the full path from a recording to a quiz your learners can take.
- If the questions matter more than the video the multiple choice question generator covers how the items are built.
- Creating a quiz from a video, step by step covers generating, editing, and exporting in order.
Why VidQuiz
What you get with video to mcqs
MCQ-first
VidQuiz is built around multiple choice, with four options and the answer marked.
Explanation per item
Each question includes a short explanation of why the correct answer is right.
Fast to take and grade
MCQs are the workhorse format for courses, training and classrooms.
What you can do
Everything video to multiple choice questions 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.
- Turn a video into ready MCQs
- Get four options with the answer marked
- Read an explanation per question
- Edit stems and options before sharing
- Share a link or export to your LMS
- Use the fastest format to grade
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Try it on a video right here
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.
What you are looking at
Three quizzes VidQuiz generated from three real YouTube videos. They are saved output, not generated in your browser. Pick one to answer it, and open the source video to check the questions against what is actually said in it.
Your own video gets a fresh quiz once you sign up.
We have not read that link.
This page only serves quizzes that were already generated, and it does not send your link anywhere. Reading a video takes about half a minute of real work on our side, so it runs in your account, not in an anonymous demo.
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