Website to quiz: turn any article or link into a quiz
Upload a web article and QuerySpark writes quizzes from what is actually in it, so you can quiz yourself on exactly what your course covers. Any public article URL.
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- Free plan after the trial
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Drop a PDF, slides or notes
or paste a YouTube link
Quick answer
How do you turn a web article into quizzes?
Paste the link to the article or page. QuerySpark fetches it, strips the menus and ads, keeps the article text, and writes multiple choice, true or false and short-answer questions from it, each with an explanation. It takes about a minute. Paywalled or login-only pages cannot be fetched, so paste their text instead. New accounts get a 3-day Pro trial with no credit card; the free plan then includes 2 web links a month, and you can paste up to 6,000 characters into the question generator without an account.
- Paste a URL: we keep the article, drop the clutter
- Free plan: 2 web links a month
- No account: paste up to 6,000 characters, 3 times a day
- Paywalled pages: copy and paste the text
How it works
How to turn a web article into quizzes
- 01
Copy the link to the article itself
Use the address of the specific article or chapter page, not a site's home page or a search results page.
- 02
Paste it and choose quiz
Set the level so the questions match how deeply you need to know the reading.
- 03
Read the article, then take the quiz
Answer one question at a time. Each explanation points back to the part of the article the question came from.
- 04
Reread only what you missed
Instead of rereading the whole piece, go back to the passages behind the questions you got wrong.
Example
Quiz from Reading
A sample of what you get from a web article on modern history. Yours is written from your own file.
Question 1 · Multiple choice
What event in July 1789 became the symbolic start of the French Revolution?
- The Tennis Court Oath
- The storming of the Bastille
- The execution of Louis XVI
- The Reign of Terror
The fall of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 is the Revolution's symbolic beginning, still marked as France's national day.
Question 2 · Multiple choice
Which group made up the Third Estate?
- Clergy
- Nobility
- Everyone else, from peasants to the bourgeoisie
- The royal family
The First Estate was the clergy, the Second the nobility, and the Third about 97% of the population.
What your quizzes include
- Multiple choice, true or false and short-answer questions written from your material
- An explanation for every answer, plus the passage it came from
- Distractors that are plausible, not obviously wrong
- Correct answers spread across A to D, so you cannot game the pattern
How you study them
Answer one question at a time with instant feedback. Wrong answers come back later in the session, and the ones you keep missing move into your review queue.
Best for: checking you understood a chapter, quick revision before class, finding weak spots early.
How we read web articles
Paste a link and we fetch the page, strip navigation and ads, and keep the article text, so a Wikipedia entry or an assigned reading becomes a study set in one step.
Get the best results
- Link the specific article, not a site's home page.
- Combine several readings on one topic into one set for synthesis questions.
Quiz yourself on an assigned reading
Most assigned readings get read once and never tested, which is why they fade by the exam. Pasting the reading's link right after you finish it gives you a quiz on exactly that text, and the questions you miss show which arguments or facts did not stick.
It works for anything with a public URL: Wikipedia articles, news and magazine features, blog posts, open textbook chapters such as OpenStax, and public course pages.
Can ChatGPT make a quiz from a website?
Sometimes. Depending on your plan and settings, ChatGPT may be able to open a link, but it does not always read the whole page, so the reliable method is to copy the article text and paste it in with a request for a quiz.
QuerySpark takes the link directly, keeps the quiz tied to that article, and saves it with explanations and a review queue for your misses. For a single quick quiz from a short article you already have open, pasting it into ChatGPT is fine.
Long pages: quizzing on one section
We fetch the whole page, so a long Wikipedia article gives a quiz spread across all of it, typically 10 to 20 questions. If you only need one section, copy that section's text and paste it instead of the link.
For a quick test without an account, paste up to 6,000 characters into the question generator on the AI question generator page. That is about a long section of a Wikipedia article, and you can do it three times a day.
Teachers: a reading quiz from a link
Paste the link to the article you are assigning and you have a reading check in about a minute. Assign it to a class with a join code to see each student's progress, or export it as QTI for Canvas, Blackboard or D2L, or Moodle XML.
Read through the questions before assigning. You can edit any of them, and it is worth removing any that focus on a detail you do not care about.
Things that trip people up with web articles
Paywalled and login-only pages cannot be fetched. Copy the text and paste it instead.
Pages that load their text with heavy scripts may come back short; pasting works there too.
Questions about article to quiz
QuerySpark is free to start with the 3-day Pro trial with no credit card. After that the free plan includes 2 web links and 20 questions a month. Without any account, you can paste text into the question generator three times a day.
Yes. Paste the URL of a public page and we fetch the article text and write the quiz from it. It needs to be a page that opens without logging in.
No. Each link is one page. For a multi-page guide or course site, make a quiz from each page you need, or copy the relevant text from several pages and paste it in.
Pages inside Canvas, Moodle or Google Classroom need a login, so we cannot fetch them. Copy the text and paste it, or download the file and upload it.
Usually not from the link, because the page needs a login or loads its text with scripts. Download the doc as a PDF or Word file and upload that instead.
Download the PDF and upload it as a file. PDF uploads take up to 100 MB and 120 pages, and scanned pages are read with OCR.
Typically 10 to 20 per run, depending on how much the article covers. A short news story gives fewer.
Most public articles: Wikipedia, news sites, blogs, open textbooks and course pages. Paywalled pages need copy and paste.
We store the extracted text with your study set so you can check answers against it later. It stays private unless you publish the set.
Every question is validated before you see it, so the answer is always one of the options, and most show the quote from your material they were written from. You can edit any question.
Yes, to start. New accounts get a 3-day Pro trial with no credit card. After the trial the free plan includes 1 study session, 20 questions and 10 PDF pages a month, and you keep everything you made. You can also try the question generator on pasted text without an account, 3 times a day.
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