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Paste, then instruct

Because the AI tab is a text field, you can paste your source text and add instructions in the same message. The most reliable pattern is to state the audience and goal first, then paste the text. For example: 'Create questions for Class 7 students using only the passage below. Focus on cause and effect.' followed by the passage.

Telling the AI to use only the pasted text keeps questions tied to your material instead of drifting into general knowledge.

Choose the right amount of text

A few paragraphs to a few pages is the sweet spot. Very short text gives the AI too little to work with, and you may get repetitive questions. Very long text spreads questions thinly across many ideas. If you have a long document, split it into sections and generate a quiz for each.

Clean up pasted text if it came from a website or PDF with broken lines, stray headers, or page numbers, since clutter can end up in questions.

Ask for the thinking you want to see

Instructions shape the level of questions. Ask for recall questions when you want to check key facts and terms, for application questions when you want learners to use an idea in a new situation, and for a mix when you want a balanced quiz. You can also request that wrong options reflect common mistakes, which makes multiple choice far more informative.

Useful kinds of text to paste

Your own lesson notes, a textbook passage, a news article for current affairs, a policy excerpt for staff training, a product description for sales teams, or a story for reading comprehension all work well. For reading comprehension in particular, share the passage with learners alongside the quiz so they can refer back to it.

Only paste text you have the right to use, and avoid pasting personal information about students or employees.

Review with the source beside you

Keep the original text open while reviewing. For each question, find the sentence that supports the correct answer. If you cannot find it, the question may be based on assumptions outside your text and should be removed or rewritten. Check that distractors are clearly wrong according to the text, not merely less complete.

Fill-in-the-blank questions grade on an exact match, so make sure the expected answer is a single clear word or short phrase.

Building a library over time

Every reviewed question can be saved to the Question Bank. Tag questions by topic and source, for example 'Reading — Unit 3 passage', so you can find them later. After a term of pasting notes and passages, you will have a searchable library of questions that grows every week and makes future quizzes much faster to assemble.

Example prompts that work well

For revision: 'Using only the notes below, create twelve questions for Class 8 students covering every heading, mostly single choice with a few fill-in-the-blank questions for key terms.' For comprehension: 'Create eight questions testing understanding of the passage below, including two about the author's main argument.'

For training: 'Create ten scenario-based questions for new employees based only on the policy text below, with wrong options that reflect common mistakes.' Paste the text after each prompt.

Common mistakes

Pasting a very long document in one go, forgetting to say who the quiz is for, leaving page headers and broken lines in the text, and publishing without checking answers against the source are the most common problems. Each is easy to avoid with a moment of preparation before you send the prompt.

When results come back, questions most people missed are worth rechecking against the text before assuming the learners were wrong.