Turn a PDF into a quiz in minutes.
Upload a PDF in the AI tab, set how many questions you want, and review the draft before it publishes — no retyping.
The short answer
YonoLMS's AI tab accepts a PDF directly. Upload it, set a question count, and it drafts matching questions into your Question Bank for you to review before publishing.
From PDF to published quiz.
Four steps, no retyping.
- 1
Open the AI tab
Start a new quiz and switch to the AI tab instead of writing questions by hand.
- 2
Upload your PDF
Attach the PDF directly — a textbook chapter, question paper, or study guide all work.
- 3
Set a question count
Tell YonoLMS how many questions you want drafted from the document.
- 4
Review, then publish
Edit or remove any drafted question before it's saved to your Question Bank and published.
Getting the best quiz out of a PDF
Text PDFs vs scanned PDFs
Not all PDFs are alike. A PDF exported from Word, Google Docs, or a publisher contains real text, and AI can read it reliably. A scanned PDF is really a set of page images; the text has to be recognised from the image first, and blurry scans, handwriting, or skewed pages make that harder.
If your source is a scan, use the clearest copy you have. For very poor scans, taking fresh, well-lit photos of the pages and attaching those instead often gives better results than a low-quality PDF.
Keep the PDF focused
A whole textbook produces vague, scattered questions. A single chapter, a unit summary, or a handful of pages produces focused ones. If your PDF is long, split it and generate quizzes per chapter; most PDF tools and even your browser's 'print to PDF' option let you save a page range as a separate file.
Focused input also makes review faster, because you can check every generated question against a few pages rather than hunting through a hundred.
Use the extra instructions
Alongside the PDF, you can add optional instructions. Use them to steer the result: the level of the learners, the kind of questions you want, and anything to avoid. For example: 'Class 10 students, focus on the worked examples, include some application questions, avoid questions about the chapter introduction.'
Setting the question count a little higher than you need gives you room to discard the weakest questions during review.
What to check during review
Every generated question lands in review before it is used, and that step matters. Check that each correct answer matches the PDF, that there is only one defensible answer for single choice questions, that numbers and units are exact, and that questions are about ideas that matter rather than trivial details like figure captions.
Uncheck anything doubtful. Deleting a weak question takes a second; a wrong answer key in a live quiz costs far more.
Good PDFs to start with
Chapter notes, revision summaries, policy documents, training handouts, product manuals, and past lecture handouts all work well. Dense reference material such as data tables or indexes tends to work less well, because it has little explanation for questions to build on.
Training teams often find that converting an existing policy PDF into a short quiz is the quickest way to check that staff have actually read it.
After the quiz
Once participants have answered, open Question Performance to see which questions were missed most. If many people missed a question about a specific section of the PDF, that section may be unclear in the source itself, which is worth knowing if you wrote the document.
Save the reviewed questions in your Question Bank with tags, so the same PDF never has to be converted twice.
Example: a chapter PDF to a class quiz
A Class 9 teacher saves pages 41 to 52 of a chemistry textbook as a separate PDF, attaches it in the AI tab, and adds the instruction 'mix of recall and application questions for Class 9, focus on the solved examples'. She asks for fifteen questions and receives a draft within moments.
During review she removes three questions about photo captions, corrects one numerical answer, and keeps twelve. She tags them 'Chemistry — Atoms and Molecules', builds a quiz with a twenty-minute timer, and shares the QR code on the classroom screen before the bell.
Common problems and quick fixes
If questions feel too general, the PDF is probably too long; split it. If questions focus on trivial details, add an instruction asking for questions about main ideas and key terms. If the AI misreads text, the PDF may be a poor scan; try clear photos of the pages instead.
If you keep getting the same kind of question, ask explicitly for a different mix, such as some fill-in-the-blank questions for key terms alongside multiple choice.
PDF to quiz, answered.
Can I upload a PDF directly to generate a quiz?expand_more
Will the quiz publish automatically from my PDF?expand_more
Does it work with a scanned PDF, not just a digital one?expand_more
How many questions can I generate from one PDF?expand_more
Is this free to use?expand_more
Your PDF is one upload
away from a quiz.
Upload it, review the drafts, and publish.
Try It FreeFree to Start