How to Create a Quiz With AI From Your Own Notes or PDF

To create a quiz with AI from your own sources, you upload the material you're studying — lecture slides, a textbook chapter, your own notes — and ask a tool to generate questions from it, instead of writing flashcards by hand or searching for a generic quiz online that may not match your syllabus at all.

Done well, every question is traceable back to a passage in your sources, the same way a chat answer would be. That's what separates it from a random trivia generator: the questions can only be about what's actually in the document you gave it. We cover the underlying retrieval mechanism in our RAG explainer.

1. Upload the notes, slides, or PDF you want to be quizzed on and wait for it to be indexed.
2. Select it as a source (or leave everything in the project selected if you want a quiz spanning all of it).
3. Ask the tool to generate a quiz instead of typing a question.
4. Answer each multiple-choice question, then check your answers against the explanations.
5. Re-generate a fresh quiz from the same sources whenever you want another pass.

Multiple-choice is fast, but recognizing the right answer is easier than producing it yourself. Practice exercises fill that gap: instead of picking from four options, you get an open-ended task drawn from the same sources, work through it on your own, then reveal a model solution to check your reasoning before moving to the next one. Together, a quiz and a set of practice exercises cover both recognition and recall from the same document Q&A material.

A quiz pulled from the open internet can quiz you on things your course never mentioned, or miss the exact framing your instructor used. A quiz generated from your own uploaded material asks only about what's actually there, so every question and explanation stays inside your syllabus — the same principle behind studying with AI from your own notes rather than a general chatbot.

Doxy's quiz and practice exercise tools generate both from whatever you upload — PDFs, slides, notes, or a Word or PowerPoint file — available on Pro and Business plans. Upload your material, create a quiz, then switch to practice exercises for the same topic to test recall as well as recognition.