Guides

Practical advice for studying smarter, teaching with quizzes, and getting your questions into Anki, Kahoot and Google Forms.

• How to turn a PDF into a quiz A step-by-step guide to turning lecture notes, chapters and handouts into a quiz in seconds, with tips for getting better questions.
• How to make Anki flashcards from a PDF Turn lecture notes or a textbook chapter into an Anki deck in minutes: generate the cards with AI, import them with File → Import, and keep the deck worth reviewing.
• How to import questions into Kahoot from a PDF Make quiz questions from a PDF, notes or web page and import them into Kahoot with its spreadsheet importer, including Kahoot's length limits and time settings.
• How to make a Google Forms quiz from a PDF Turn a PDF, notes or web page into a self-marking Google Forms quiz without typing the questions in, using a short Apps Script that runs in your own account.
• Free Quizlet alternatives: study sites like Quizlet The best free study websites like Quizlet compared: Anki, Knowt, Brainscape and PDFQuizGenerator, with what each is good at and how to move your sets.
• Anki for medical and nursing students: decks from your lecture PDFs How medical, nursing and MCAT students can turn lecture slides and notes into Anki decks in minutes, and a daily review routine that keeps the workload manageable.
• Study with active recall Why testing yourself beats re-reading, and a simple routine for using practice quizzes and spaced review to remember more of what you study.
• Quiz yourself on lecture notes How to turn each week of lecture notes into quick self-tests, when to quiz yourself, and how to use the results to plan your revision.
• A free alternative to PDFQuiz Looking for a free PDF quiz maker with no sign-up? What PDFQuizGenerator does, what it does not do, and how to choose the right tool.
• Quick comprehension checks for teachers How teachers can turn a reading, handout or worksheet into a short multiple-choice check for understanding, and share it with a link.