PowerPoint Quiz Maker

Take it yourself, or run it live — pick the mode before you upload

The two things people mean by “a quiz from PowerPoint” are different jobs, so the tool asks you to choose before it generates anything.

Single is for checking yourself. You answer the questions one at a time, see the correct answer and a written explanation the moment you commit, and finish with a percentage plus a question-by-question breakdown. You can retake the same set as often as you like without regenerating it.

Group is for testing other people. You name the quiz and set a time limit between 1 and 180 minutes before generating. Then you get an invitation link and a waiting room that fills up as people arrive. Participants type a display name and nothing else. You start the quiz manually once everyone is in, and a live scoreboard ranks them as answers come in, with medals for the top three. Participants get one attempt, and when the timer runs out their answers are submitted automatically.

One practical note: keep the host tab open for the whole session. The waiting room, the timer and the scoreboard all live in that tab.

Match the quiz to your audience, not to a difficulty slider

Easy, medium and hard tell an AI nothing about who is answering. This tool asks for the audience instead, and the vocabulary, the phrasing and the depth of the questions move with it — the same deck produces noticeably different questions at each setting.

University Student is selected by default. If you are building a quiz for a school class, switch the level before you generate — this is the single setting that changes the result most.

What the generator takes from your slides

The generator reads the text in your deck, groups it into the topics the deck actually covers, and writes questions inside those topics. That is why the review screen shows questions under topic headings instead of a flat list: you can uncheck an entire topic that is not part of the test, or drop individual questions you do not like, and start with what is left. Nothing is regenerated when you do that, and you can come back to the review screen from inside the quiz and change your selection.

How to run a live quiz from your slides

1. Upload the deck. A .pptx or a .pdf, up to 100 MB. Old .ppt files need to be saved as .pptx first.
2. Set it up. Choose how many questions you want (3 to 30), pick the difficulty level for your audience, then switch the quiz type to Group.
3. Name the quiz and set the clock. The name is what participants see when they open your link. The time limit can be anything from 1 to 180 minutes.
4. Generate and review. Generation runs in the background while your file is analysed. When it finishes, you get the questions grouped by topic — uncheck anything you do not want to ask.
5. Open the room and share the link. Copy the invitation link and send it however you normally reach your group. Names appear in the waiting room as people join.
6. Start, then watch the board. You start the quiz manually, so nobody misses the beginning. From then on the scoreboard updates itself as answers arrive, and you can end the session at any point.

If you only want to test yourself, stop after step two: leave the quiz type on Single and go straight to the questions.Every question is multiple choice with lettered options and one correct answer, and every question carries a written explanation that appears as soon as you answer. Questions come back in the language of the file you uploaded — the language is detected automatically, so a deck written in Spanish produces a Spanish quiz without any setting to change.

When a wrong answer turns into a lesson

Getting a question wrong is the useful part, so there are two levels of feedback instead of one. The first is the explanation attached to the question, shown the moment you answer. If you picked the wrong option, a second button appears: Explain My Mistake.

It sends your specific wrong answer back to the AI and returns three separate things — why the option you chose is wrong, why the correct option is right, and a longer explanation of the point behind the question. That distinction matters when two options are both plausible. A generic explanation tells you what the right answer was. This one tells you what your reasoning missed.

Quiz inside PowerPoint vs quiz generated from PowerPoint

These are two different products, and picking the wrong one is the most common mistake in this category. A quiz built inside PowerPoint lives on your slides: the question appears during the presentation, and the audience answers while the deck is on screen. That requires an add-in installed in PowerPoint. A quiz generated from PowerPoint is a separate test made out of your existing deck: it runs in a browser, on its own link, and the deck itself is never modified.

This tool does the second one. Which means it needs nothing installed and works from a file you already have — including a PDF, which add-ins generally cannot read at all.

Working inside PowerPoint most of the time? Twistly also has an add-in for generating slides, notes, images and translations directly in the app.

When the generator will not give you a good quiz

The quality of the questions is capped by what is actually written on your slides. These are the cases where the output disappoints, and what to do about each.

• Slides with almost no text. A deck of full-bleed photographs, screenshots or charts with no labels gives the generator nothing to read. Decks with speaker-facing text on the slides work best.
• A scanned PDF. If the pages are images of text rather than text, there is nothing to extract. Export the PDF from the original document instead of scanning a printout.
• An old .ppt file. Only .pptx is accepted. Open it in PowerPoint and use Save As to get a .pptx.
• A file over 100 MB. Usually this is image weight, not content — compress the deck first and the same slides will go through.
• Thirty questions from a five-slide deck. The question count is a request, not a guarantee. On a short deck, ask for fewer questions and you will get sharper ones.
• Closing the host tab during a group quiz. The session lives in that tab. If you close it, use a fresh session rather than trying to recover the old one.

Who this is for

Teachers and lecturers. You already have the lecture deck. Group mode plus a time limit turns the last ten minutes of the class into a scored knowledge check, and the scoreboard does the marking while it runs.

Corporate training and onboarding. A compliance or product deck becomes a test at the Professional level, and you can send the link to a distributed team instead of scheduling a session.

Students. Run your own lecture slides through it before an exam. The self-check mode plus Explain My Mistake is closer to a study session than to a test.

Webinar and workshop hosts. Drop the link in the chat, give the room a five-minute clock, and read the board out loud. No app for the audience to download.