QuestionWell - AI-Powered Teaching Tools | Enhance Educators' Efficiency | QuestionWell is labelled as a "free forever" AI tool.
It is the first free AI tool that I have seen that creates multiple choice quizzes that can be exported as QTI files to Canvas New Quizzes.
QuestionWell allows access via Google or Microsoft which is always handy:
Taking a look at their Privacy policy, they have also opened out of using data for training:
The front page/dashboard is clear and easy to follow, with lots of drop-down boxes provided
The question type options for the free version are limited to Multiple choice.
Should you wish to pay, then you can also have:
Looking at the Pricing options, the free version includes the following:
Interestingly enough, the Enterprise version offers a deeper integration with Canvas:
Going back to the Create menu and clicking on AI tools for teachers reveals many more features you may be interested in:
I only want to explore the Multiple-choice question and export features however.
You are limited to 10 MCQ per prompt with the free version (20 and 30 for paid version) but that is not a huge hardship if its going to do much of this for me!
I am teaching A-Level Physics so have gone for a particular topic there. It is US based (I think) so have to match my Year to K12:
I have some limited options on providing context for my questions, Text, YouTube video and Website. If I pay, I could upload a file:
I have added text from the syllabus:
Again, if you pay, you can align your quiz to different standards (just US, but there is the option of sending them your own).
There does appear to be an option to enter individual standards yourself below this:
Although this is not straightforward when copying directly from a PDF.
Press Generate Questions button when done:
The response time when testing was around about a minute:
What you then get looks something like this:
I like the thought they have given to the questions, indicating the outcome they are taken from (the target), the taxonomy of the question (via Blooms) represented by the triangle and also the core concept of the question - Recall, Comprehension, Problem solving etc
I didn't get any formula based questions which I was hoping for in this run but you can run the quiz again to get a different set of questions using the Make Retake button:
After a few re-runs I still did not get any despite adding some keywords to the text entry.
In addition to the Comprehension questions there is a tab that says Vocabulary. You are provided a list of 15 key words (which you can add to):
Exporting of this into Google Slides activities is limited to the paid option but you can copy and paste into Word and no reason why not then create an interactive list using another AI tool like Canva Code or Gemini Canva Studio.
When happy, you can select the individual questions you wish to export or just press + Select button and then press the Export or Assign button:
There is a vast array of export options which is great - choose Canvas:
There is a handy pop-up that links you to a Help Guide on importing to Canvas - taken from the Community and you file is downloaded as a QTI zip file:
The rest is following the steps to import as outlined in the Community Helpguide - either, directly into a New Quiz How do I import a quiz from a QTI package in New Q... - Instructure Community - 880 or into the course itself - How do I import quizzes from QTI packages? - Instructure Community - 1046
Note: With New Quizzes, there is NO OPTION of importing the QTI file into a question bank - so a manual process to move the questions for further use.
True to its word, the quiz is made:
There is even a nice History feature in QuestionWell that stores your prompts so you can go back to them:
So, not a bad little tool overall. More practice needed to see how well it aligns with the course. It would be great to export some of the key skills as Canvas Question titles - perhaps that somethign I should suggest to them but not sure if it is possible to add those to a QTI file?
If you do use this tool, please share your thoughts in the Comments section below...
