# About Name: Questgen Description: AI-Powered question generator. Generate quizzes from any text in seconds using AI URL: https://blog.questgen.ai # Navigation Menu - Home: https://questgen.ai/ - Get started: https://dashboard.questgen.ai/ # Blog Posts ## Questgen vs Quillionz: Battle Of The AI Assessment Generation Tools! Author: Unknown Published: 2022-07-11 Tags: artificial intelligence, natural language processing, saas, MCQ, Assessment Generation, Question Maker, data science, edtech, quiz maker, Quillionz, GPT-3 URL: https://blog.questgen.ai/questgen-vs-quillionz-battle-of-the-ai-assessment-generation-tools-cl5gjmy5773451kpx40b4e1d4/ ![Fighting Robots](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/joran-quinten-mr9xsnwvkvo-unsplash-1657549002127-compressed.jpg) Quiz generation is one of those tedious tasks that every teacher knows they have to do but they'd prefer to not do it anyways. Coming up with new and improved questions for exams or quizzes is quite a difficult task. If you are a teacher yourself or someone involved with creating assessments for people then you will know what I mean.  Yet, these quizzes and assessments are the most effective way to measure the capabilities and knowledge of students and other people. The process of making a new quiz involves teachers having to select a piece of content and then picking out questions from it to put into their assessment. This process of creating new assessments is a time-consuming process where intelligent MCQ, True/False, or Short Questions have to be created that will effectively measure the abilities of anyone who takes the assessment. Now, with the amazing advancements in Artificial intelligence and Natural Language Processing, the process of creating new assessments have become much more simple and less tedious than before. There are various AI assessment generation tools that follow the [blueprints of creating effective assessment questions](https://blog.questgen.ai/the-blueprint-for-teachers-to-design-effective-multiple-choice-questions-cl4lo6vg443941jmo8ytkiht4/) and churn out some impressive questions for you to use wherever you want.  In this article, we will compare two AI quiz generation tools. One is [Quillionz](https://www.quillionz.com/), an established quiz generation platform. The other one is [Questgen](https://www.questgen.ai/), a startup in the quiz generation space with some interesting new features. So without further ado, let's get into it! We will be comparing Questgen and Quillionz in the following categories: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Who are they for? * How do they work? * What sort of questions can you generate from them? * Pricing and Plans. * How easy are they to use? ### Who are they for? Well, the supposed mission of AI quiz generation tools is to remove the tediousness of creating new quizzes or assessments from a given piece of text. Tools like Questgen and Quillionz have the same goal in mind, however, they may go about it in slightly different ways. Quillionz has a more serious sort of interface that works more like a machine, you feed content to it and it will generate assessments for you in return. It is perfect for higher education institutions and enterprise-level organizations that want quick assessment generation within a couple of seconds. Questgen on the other hand is quite new and offers a relatively refreshing design that can be used by teachers, HR managers, and even publishers or Edtech teams that want to create customized assessments on the go. ### How do they work? How these tools generate new assessments is pretty similar. It is the result they give out that can vary. When generating an assessment with Quizllionz you have to enter an article the AI will use to generate questions and make it correct for the generation tool, so it can work its magic on it in the most effective way. Afterward, the tool generates a whole flurry of Short Questions, MCQs, and True/False questions.  As compared to Quillionz, Questgen takes a similar assessment generation approach and makes it simpler. Questgen takes in the article to be used by the AI, and then you select what sort of questions you want to generate from it. ### What sort of questions can you generate from them? Both the Quillionz AI tool and the Questgen assessment generation tool are capable of generating effective Short Questions, Multiple Choice, and True/False questions, from the given piece of content. However, Quillionz also allows you to generate Fill-in type and Recall questions as well. ### Pricing and Plans. Pricing can sometimes be a make-it or break-it deal for most people, fortunately, both platforms enable users to try out the tools for free at first and then decide whether they want the full paid versions or not. Quillionz has a basic subscription package where you can generate up to 5 question sets per month and import the questions as well. Apart from that, there are other packages as well like the Pro package, the Business subscriptions, and more that come with all sorts of perks and advantages. ![Quillionz Pricing Plans](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/quillionz-1657538544375-compressed.PNG) Questgen on the other hand has a free version with 15 free runs and a Pro version for individuals. On top of that, there is a B2B API Integration for Questgen as well that allows you to integrate the tool to your own website as well. ![Questgen Pricing Plans](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/questgen-pricing-1657538574619-compressed.PNG) ### How easy are they to use? While Quillionz is a more established tool that has had more runtime, its user interface and the question generation process are a little daunting at first and can take some time to get used to. An expert at the tool can generate quizzes on the fly, but a novice will have a hard time at first. Here is a picture of the Quillionz UI. ![Quillionz User Interface](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/quillionz-ui-1657539183862-compressed.PNG) In contrast to Quillionz, Questgen has a much more modern and refined interface that is very easy to understand and use. It presents everything on a single screen and makes generating and editing questions much more simple and fun, as seen in the picture below. ![Questgen User Interface](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/questgen-ui-2-1657539208433-compressed.PNG) You can use click [here](https://blog.questgen.ai/complete-guide-to-generating-multiple-choice-questions-automatically-using-ai-ckxnbk4l1647361ks7wohnp8x4/) and go to a guide to show you how you can generate assessments using AI. Conclusion ---------- Both Quillionz and Questgen have areas where they outperform each other. For Quillionz it is the established reputation and the simple and relatively cheaper pricing plan that makes it better than Questgen in those categories. However, when it comes to keeping things simple and quick, Questgen is better with its better user interface and a simpler process of generating quizzes. Quillionz uses AI algorithms to generate its quizzes but there is no mention of which algorithms it uses or how it uses them, but Questgen mentions that it uses advanced computational linguistics and AI algorithms like GPT-3 to generate its quizzes. On top of that Questgen has an open-source library on Github that anyone can check out. Although the algorithms on the production app are not the same as the GitHub library, it is a nice starting point to delve deeper into Questgen's algorithms. All in all, both tools have their upsides and downsides and it is up to you to choose which one you prefer more to help you generate assessments. Credits ------- The image used in the cover has been taken from Unsplash and is credited to [Joran Quinten.](https://unsplash.com/photos/MR9xsNWVKvo?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink)​ --- This blog is powered by Superblog. Visit https://superblog.ai to know more. --- ## Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and their effects on Customer's experience Author: Unknown Published: 2022-06-30 Tags: artificial intelligence, MCQ, faqs, edtech, quiz maker URL: https://blog.questgen.ai/frequently-asked-questions-faqs-and-their-effects-on-customers-experience-cl50loetq79181ll9fhly3mhn/ One of the goodies technologies have brought to humanity is the ease with which processes are done - such can be said about Frequently Asked Questions. Remember how tedious it used to be to join the customer service queue to get your complaints heard? Or getting on the phone severally but still not being able to reach customer care. [![Users waiting in line to access the customer care agent. Source: www.shutterstock.com](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/questgen-1-1656627415924-compressed.png)](https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/people-lined-queue-waiting-young-line-764840686) Source: www.shutterstock.com - [Users waiting in line to access the customer care agent.](https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/people-lined-queue-waiting-young-line-764840686) ​ With time, technology evolved and direct emailing became possible. However, you sometimes have to wait for days for the email you sent to get processed and complaints addressed. The introduction of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) has helped bring automatic solutions to customer issues and complaints.  This article shows how FAQs can improve your customer experience and how Questgen can help generate the best FAQs that suit your business. **What are Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)?** -------------------------------------------------- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are a list of recurring questions that have, over time, been considered important and relevant to customers’ experiences. These questions include queries, complaints, and issues that users have most experienced over a long time, alongside their solutions. FAQs are one of the most effective website user experience strategies because they tackle most of a visitor’s questions on the spot. Let’s take at where FAQs are mostly used. Where are Frequently Asked Questions mostly Used? ------------------------------------------------- Frequently Asked questions are usually found on websites and it serves as a big help to customers, users and visitors, However, did you know FAQs are used on many other platforms?  These include: * Websites: **This is one of the most common places to find FAQs. Almost every website has a special section at the base of the site dedicated to FAQs. It can come in various formats and address issues arising from the use of the website, general queries, questions on products being displayed, etc.** * Articles: **You can also find these questions at the base of various articles and blog posts. It treats questions that may arise from the article’s topic and sometimes gives extra information not included.**  * Online Forums: **Online forums where people come to discuss various topics, have fun, and seek solutions to various issues. A typical example of an online forum is Reddit. In most online forums like this, when moderators notice that a particular question** **or topic regularly arises in conversations, they create a FAQs section to tackle it.**  * **Email Newsletters:** **Nowadays, FAQs are a common component of newsletters. Newsletters are emails sent to many subscribers informing them about a particular product, news, or recent development. Most subscribers come up with questions; the FAQs section tries to predict this and provides answers to them so these customers can take action.** Why are FAQs very important? ---------------------------- **The usefulness of Frequently Asked Questions in business effectiveness today cannot be overemphasized. Below are some of the reasons why FAQs are important:**     **1. They increase site traffic:** **Using the right FAQs helps you increase traffic to your site. It does this by targeting specific keywords usually used in search queries, thereby improving the pop-up and click rate.**     **2. They improve the user experience:** **FAQs help to improve the experience of your users on your website. When your users’ cogent questions are adequately answered, they feel satisfied and will go on to purchase whatever product or service you’re selling. Questgen can help you generate optimal FAQs; read on.**      **3. Improve the ranking of your site:** **FAQs are very relevant content and improve your site’s ratings because they improve your site’s frequency of appearance. This boosts its Search Engine Results Page (SERP) and its ranking,**     **4. FAQs ensure easy website navigation:** **The FAQs section can make your user’s navigation very easy. You can direct your user to any part of your site where they can get relevant information.**       **5. They promote blog content:**  **FAQs can serve as very relevant blog posts/article content. You can actually add very important content to this section and link it to your main content page to serve a dual purpose.**     **6. They provide simple and swift customer service:** **They can also serve as a quick form of customer service to your users. With it, you can address concerns, tackle complaints, and keep your customers informed.**  How can FAQs increase the conversion of customers? -------------------------------------------------- **FAQs are so important that they can help you increase your sales and the conversion from your site. It achieves this by making sure that customers:** * **Find your website in their search results more often.** * **Get well informed about your products, services, and how to access them.** * **Can get over their hesitation and previous negative encounters.** * **Trust and see the value in the products you’re offering.** * **Feel like you have an in-depth knowledge of their problems and can help them out.** Automatically generate FAQs for your business today with Questgen. ------------------------------------------------------------------ **With Questgen, you can automatically generate FAQs for your website, article, or newsletter. We can help you provide the most relevant FAQs that cover the issues your customers want answers to.** **Questgen achieves this, in seconds, [with the use of Artificial intelligence (AI).](https://blog.questgen.ai/questgen-an-advanced-ai-powered-question-generator-that-is-easy-to-use-ckv573yr9152801pnzqn3z0l72) It makes sure that only top-notch questions are generated by:** ### **1.** Searching deep into the niche of your business and generating questions. ![](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/capture-new-1-1657685865971-compressed.PNG) ### 2\. Accessing the relevance of the **generated** FAQs by **taking** a survey of **similar** sites ![](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/capture-new-2-1657685967988-compressed.PNG) ### 3\. Use keyword technology to access the most searched questions in your **business** niche**.** ![](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/capture-new-4-1657686190214-compressed.PNG) ### 4\. Ensuring the **uniqueness** of **your** FAQs**.** ![](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/capture-new3-1657686153865-compressed.PNG) ### [Questgen provides you with quality](https://app.questgen.ai/) FAQs in a matter of seconds. These can help boost the reach and ranking of your website, increase your user experience and conversion, and bring more sales to your doorstep. This is a unique opportunity you don’t want to miss out on. Reach out to us now. --- This blog is powered by Superblog. Visit https://superblog.ai to know more. --- ## Bloom’s Taxonomy and how it aids your learning process. Author: Unknown Published: 2022-06-25 Tags: artificial intelligence, natural language processing, MCQ, Assessment Generation, Question Maker, edtech, quiz maker URL: https://blog.questgen.ai/blooms-taxonomy-and-how-it-aids-your-learning-process-cl4u3tw76171271jpgxy7l5uyz/ Contents * [What is Bloom’s Taxonomy](#what-is-blooms-taxonomy) * [How does it aid assessment?](#how-does-it-aid-assessment) * [What are the levels of Bloom’s taxonomy?](#what-are-the-levels-of-blooms-taxonomy) *     [1. Remember:](#1-remember) *     [2. Understand:](#2-understand) *     [3. Apply:](#3-apply) *     [4. Analyze:](#4-analyze) *     [5. Evaluate:](#5-evaluate) *     [6. Create:](#6-create) * [How Questgen can develop questions on different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy](#how-questgen-can-develop-questions-on-different-levels-of-blooms-taxonomy) * [Conclusion: What Should you do next?](#conclusion-what-should-you-do-next) Many people are actively looking for a way to improve their learning and make it easier, more efficient, and automated. Let’s take a look at the case of Britney. Britney is an undergraduate at the University of Michigan who has had low grades all her life. Regardless of how hard she tries, she can’t effectively remember what she read. She went on a total break, did some deep research on learning, and found some powerful tips she called “**Golden Nuggets.**” It’s almost two years now, and Britney is among the top three in her class. Do you need to go on deep research too? No! We have all the **Golden Nuggets** with us, and we will tell you about one today. ![](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/image-1656214461575-compressed.png) This article is about Bloom’s taxonomy, how to use it, and how Questgen can help you maximize your output with it either as a teacher or student. **What is Bloom’s Taxonomy** ---------------------------- Bloom’s taxonomy is a method of learning that classifies the fundamental knowledge and assimilation process into six easy levels. **It deals with the processes of how the human mind can easily recognize, assimilate and store information.**  It was created in 1956 by the researcher **Benjamin Bloom** as a learning and objective-based strategy. However, since then, it has undergone various unique modifications and can now be applied in almost any facet of life - **from learning to self-evaluation, from setting questions to accessing them.** Recently, Bloom’s taxonomy has also been used to **frame various digital tasks and evaluate software and applications.**  So the question you’re asking is how Bloom’s taxonomy can help boost your performance and productivity as a teacher or student?  Let’s look at that. How does it aid assessment? --------------------------- The beautiful thing about this method is that **it allows you to learn progressively and move steadily and slowly from one level to another**. One of Britney’s issues was trying so hard to study for longer hours. She wasn’t effective in keeping that much information at her beck and call. With Bloom’s taxonomy, you can easily devise simple ways of studying what you need to know, progress to understanding it, and evaluate yourself while having fun. In simpler terms, **this procedure helps you develop clear objectives and create a solid foundation for what you learn while you build on it gradually.** This ensures that all you learn stays put so you can access it whenever you need it - in the class, in a group discussion, or in an examination hall.  ### What are the levels of Bloom’s taxonomy? So let’s see the different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy and how Britney used them to elevate her grades for good. They include: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. Let’s analyze them closely;  ![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Zt6KbnhdzlNcrhNfgcbBhmZsEyl31raqW7H9CvqEYr-Qf70TPypkeIGUAzN4aGzSzCYS1XBOt1jj53B9Z3XI73QqXoq1xthVHkFd2glbCPH_wg38c9GPh3qJ19VRhroSns2bCP3fSMmJnCh11A) ###     **1\. Remember:** **This is the lowest and widest stage of the taxonomy; at this stage, you are allowed to take in as much information as possible.** **It involves listening, reading, memorizing,** **etc****., just any method to get knowledge.** ###     2\. Understand: **This level involves you placing these pieces of information into different classes and trying to find similarities, differences, and meeting points. What you do here is** **comparing, contrasting, summarizing, exemplifying,** **etc.** ###     **3. Apply:** **At this stage, you use this categorized knowledge and try to apply it in your everyday life scenarios, relate** ​**it to recent happenings, etc. This helps solidify what you understand and its retention. You try to** **act out, display, relate, execute, etc****.** ###     4\. Analyze: **With analysis, you can** **organize, brainstorm, and differentiate** **your information while still attributing it to results. This stage requires critical thinking while studying** results**.** ###     5\. Evaluate: **At this stage, you make a well-thought judgment or interpretation of the information or result you have at your disposal. You give thoughts and statements either against or for the information.** **You have to validate, defend effectively, and debate results here.** ###     6\. Create: **This is the highest stage of the taxonomy. At this point, you have adequate knowledge of the particular concept and can now** **create adequate designs and solutions to a problem****.** How Questgen can develop questions on different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Questgen is a new generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform that can help you generate different forms of questions from any text in a matter of seconds**. With Questgen, you can easily access questions from any level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.   Let’s see how it works. We will [be using an excerpt](https://app.questgen.ai/?authuser=0&prompt=consent&scope=email%20profile%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fuserinfo.profile%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fuserinfo.email%20openid) “Elon Musk’s Influence on the Digital Currency Market” from the Questgen site to explain them briefly. **![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/tDVrE4AUYwO9ih8InDv1o5w567gS_UvTclPThjfCkHCs8FPkR3QFvnTuYa-vKq16oqkMun4okEZ-0L2bvyRVlqv-3op_hRpGxOx4W2RQ-JPMkqdzfLqPiBfBQFiF9uMaKs2eWXS8x6ss5N62QA)** With Questgen, you can choose between: * **Multiple Choice Questions** * True or False * Higher-Order Questions and Answers **Questions generated here can help you:**     **1. Remember:** ** ​ ![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/wvd0vIsnNBjP5TS9nKmgBycPjyfTV8ZsHbxUrfhTeM7E8IJf0DY1D6HwXlCV4LEXIU-cdTz-ovhnAUXn5Ka-srqBrUMOseOqbUk-8HZmCVJDg8tYE0u1rw-m9fuBhQEXqwuaR64YZMCNY-BL7Q) **    **2. Understand, Apply, and Analyze: ![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/zvcuSh5WCobRdHj6GAGCJGZuICESjaYBIDgTp4IptZr7Td47UEIkI4JNCxpubBEj6Q3bi-GC62G5oWKukFup2sFF7UKYjn4on0caYaC1MNnpD_pYzDRd_oiSgDS2EBwtX3lDWgmNzMEa0ICr_g)**     **3. Evaluate:** **![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/YNiMspprnT6JqVlXGQ_i9usiCuDNyvelrn5TUVxVK-hsGRkr64RiLPUeV5A049vkAiVdFG2TjfS8UVnEHlHFLAhYQRb_WDNo0Ziv2uOacwNuYYTYyOvPgShbgdSWrKPARhnF1yv2ypp7DMFQ1A)** 4\. Even High-Order Questions that involve reasoning: **​** **![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bKb6lie5YPZK9xqE4wqrvkL3s0si7aMMgCdhyTRbBvEQgHsceCgHl_fC2gD7LF3eOV3ODBJuOwacFCMkPEGtBxtGhS7ShXBC-opQ_5jIlYAl3VAT1TY7_aSjOjplqyHW_PBUvsC0bHPL_AKYBQ)** **​ ** Conclusion: What Should you do next? ------------------------------------ **Are you like Britney? Always reading but having difficulty remembering the necessary information required to be effective, or maybe you are a teacher looking to up your game using Bloom’s taxonomy? Well, you’re in the right place.** **With Questgen, generating questions to help you crystallize and solidify what you learn becomes very easy. To learn how to [use Questgen optimally to generate questions, check here](https://blog.questgen.ai/complete-guide-to-generating-multiple-choice-questions-automatically-using-ai-ckxnbk4l1647361ks7wohnp8x4/).** **Our technology is top-notch, free from ads, swift, and user-friendly. Paste your text today, generate those questions, and ace those exams.** --- This blog is powered by Superblog. Visit https://superblog.ai to know more. --- ## The Blueprint For Teachers To Design Effective Multiple Choice Questions Author: Unknown Published: 2022-06-19 Tags: artificial intelligence, natural language processing, saas, Quizlet, kahoot, MCQ, Assessment Generation, Question Maker, edtech, quiz maker URL: https://blog.questgen.ai/the-blueprint-for-teachers-to-design-effective-multiple-choice-questions-cl4lo6vg443941jmo8ytkiht4/ ![Anatomy of an MCQ](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/anatomy2-1656234113916-compressed.PNG) MCQs or Multiple Choice Questions are an integral part of education systems all around the world. Multiple choice questions are generally recognized as the most widely applicable and useful type of objective test questions. A good MCQ question paper can test a person's knowledge, understanding, judgment, and problem-solving skills. A multiple-choice question or MCQ comprises two primary parts, a stem to identify the problem and a set of possible answers. In a good MCQ, these answers contain hints in themselves as to what the best answer may be, but they also act as distractors that are plausible but incorrect answers to the question. There are several advantages to MCQ assessments, one of the major ones is that they can even be marked by computers. This makes them a desirable assessment approach for extensive tests conducted by major institutions. A well-designed MCQ assessment allows testing for a broad range of content while objectively measuring an individual student's ability. Generally, creating an MCQ follows three main sections, they are effectively the blueprint for creating multiple-choice questions: * The General Strategy * Designing the questions * Designing the options​​ The General Strategy -------------------- A good strategy while creating a multiple-choice question is that the stem or problem statement and its possible answers should not have verbal associations with each other. If the options have similar words to the questions then students will most probably choose the question that seems most similar. Another important strategy is to use familiar terminology in the question. Unfamiliar expressions in the options might get dismissed by the students and they are likely to mark correct statements as incorrect if this happens. A good MCQ should also avoid trick questions. Questions should be designed in a way that students who know the material are able to identify the correct answer. Misleading phrasing will lead students to the wrong answer violating an important principle of avoiding trick or misleading questions. Another important, but often violated principle of MCQ creation is that negative wording should be avoided in a question stem. Many students will often fail to observe negative wording because it simply confuses them. It is better to avoid negative phrasing but in the rare cases where it is necessary, negative phrasing should be emphasized by putting them in upper case and bolding or underlining them. Take the following example: Which of the following is **NOT** an extension of an image file? * .mkv * .jpg * .txt * .vdf In this example, the use of negative phrasing creates unnecessary confusion that can be very easily avoided if you choose to create a simple-looking but tricky question rather than a confusing question. An unrelated but useful hint to solving MCQ questions is to instruct students to look for the best answer rather than the correct answer to any question. Designing the questions -------------------------- Designing the question properly is the most important part of generating assessments, obviously. In a question, the entire problem has to be properly expressed and all its relevant material must be put into it. This makes it easier to read and understand so students can quickly answer them. It's also important to eliminate any sort of excessive wording and the inclusion of irrelevant information in the question. It must be straight to the point or the assessment may not be effective in measuring a student's capabilities. A good example of a question with a simple and well-designed stem/question is as follows: Computer word size is a multiple of how many bits? * 4 bits * 10 bits * 16 bits * 1024 bits The stem for this question is straight to the point and gives precise instructions for what the answer can be. Designing the options --------------------- First of all, a teacher should limit the number of options presented in a multiple-choice question. A good limit is between 3 to 5 options per question. Anything more and the question will quickly run out of or have more than necessary, "plausible distractors". Another good tip in the blueprint for creating an effective MCQ is that there should only be one best answer to it. More than one correct answer can obviously create great problems for students and examiners. Though there has to be one correct answer, this doesn't mean that the other options can not be appealing or that they shouldn't qualify as correct answers in the eyes of students. This way it is harder to locate the correct answer and students can be properly tested. You can look at the following MCQ example to check what sort of options act as good "plausible distractors" in a question. Computer memory is measured in which terms? * Units * Bits * Cells * Bytes In the above-given question, there is only one right answer but there are other options that could logically be the right answers. ### The new era of assessment designing It can be a difficult task to create an effective assessment that tests students properly. Even an extremely experienced professor can sometimes make mistakes.  And it is always time-consuming and difficult to create a great assessment that tests a student's capabilities. And in this modern age, everything is shifting into a more advanced and interactive method of teaching. There are platforms for creating quizzes online from anything like flashcards or interactive games like Quizlet and Kahoot just to name a few.  But what popular platforms like Quizlet and Kahoot do not provide is a method for students and teachers to automatically generate assessments. Even now effective assessments have to be generated manually. They may be conducted effectively on these platforms but they have to be manually generated. ![Working of Questgen](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/4-1640778992696-compressed-1656167012084-compressed.png) ​[Questgen](https://www.questgen.ai/) has a solution to this problem, in the form of an intelligent self-learning assessment generation platform where you insert a simple article and the tool generates effective multiple-choice questions, true or false questions, and even short-form questions from scratch. Afterward, you can tweak these questions as you please and export them to use as assessments in examinations. Click [here](https://blog.questgen.ai/complete-guide-to-generating-multiple-choice-questions-automatically-using-ai-ckxnbk4l1647361ks7wohnp8x4/) to check out how Questgen works. --- This blog is powered by Superblog. Visit https://superblog.ai to know more. --- ## Complete guide to generating Multiple Choice Questions automatically using AI Author: Unknown Published: 2021-12-26 Tags: artificial intelligence, natural language processing, saas, edtech, quiz maker URL: https://blog.questgen.ai/complete-guide-to-generating-multiple-choice-questions-automatically-using-ai-ckxnbk4l1647361ks7wohnp8x4/ Automating the processing of MCQ generation using state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing techniques.  ![MCQ Generation](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/copy-of-last-chapter-question-generation-using-nlp-1640778794130-compressed.png) MCQ's are the most commonly used assessment type and the task to create these MCQ assessments is usually cumbersome and requires a subject matter expert who reads through the content and generates appropriate questions and corresponding wrong answers (distractors).  Using advanced Natural Language Processing techniques, we will see how we can automate the process of MCQ Generation.  · · · How would a teacher create MCQs? -------------------------------- Before moving on to the technical implementation, let's go through how a question author (teacher, tutor, etc) would approach this problem. This will give us some idea on how to structure out the steps required for the solution.  ### Step 1: Identify key Sentences/Concepts ![Text Summarisation](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/3-1640778902996-compressed.png) The first step would be to go through the sentences and figure out the key sentences/concepts being discussed in the given text. This would help us to filter out the sentences which are less important. Step 2: Identify keywords from sentences ![Extracting keywords ](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/4-1640778992696-compressed.png) After filtering out the sentences, we need to extract the keywords or keyphrases. Keywords or keyphrases are the important concepts in the sentences which will serve as the correct answers, on the basics of which MCQs will be generated.  In the above text, Musk, Tesla, Bitcoin, Dogecoin, etc are the extracted keywords.  ### Step 3: Form Multiple Choice Questions ![Generating MCQ](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/copy-of-last-chapter-question-generation-using-nlp-1-1640781619054-compressed.png) With the knowledge of the given text, the tutor/teacher can then form the multiple choice question. These questions are formed in such a way that the individual keywords or keyphrases are the answers to them.  Along with the question and the correct answer, the tutor/teacher will also create distractors ( wrong answer choices). The rule of thumb is that the distractors should be similar to the correct answer but not obvious enough to give away the correct answer. They are meant to confuse the quiz taker. Posing it as an NLP Problem --------------------------- Having gone through the steps a teacher would intuitively use to generate the MCQs, our task now is to pose this as a Natural Language Processing problem and attempt to solve it.  The overview of this would look something like this ->  ![Overview](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/overview-1640779431843-compressed.png) The process will contain 5 steps in total -  1. ​Abstractive/Extractive Summarization.  2. Paraphrasing of sentences.  3. Keyword/Keyphrase Extraction.  4. Question Generation.  5. Wrong choices/distractors generation. Let's go through these step by step.  ### Step 1: Abstractive/Extractive Summarization Summarization refers to the task of creating a short summary of the whole text. Summarization can be done in two ways, abstractive summarization, and extractive summarization. While extractive summarization extracts words and word phrases from the original text to create a summary, abstractive summarization learns an internal language representation to generate more human-like summaries, paraphrasing the intent of the original text.  We can leverage [these T5 Models](#summarization) for summarization. ### Step 2: Paraphrasing of sentences We would need to paraphrase the result if we are using extractive summarization in the first step. Although, if we had used abstractive summarization earlier we can skip this step as it has already been paraphrased during summarization.  We can choose amongst [these paraphrases](https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/paraphrase-distilroberta-base-v1) available in the [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/) NLP library. ### Step 3: Keyword/Keyphrase extraction ![Extract keywords](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/8-1640779471078-compressed.png) ​ Given the paraphrased sentence, next, we would extract the keywords. These keywords would serve as the basis for questions that will be generated in the next step.  ​[Multipartite rank](https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08721) is one useful algorithm, used in keyword extraction. We can leverage the open-source library [python-keyphrase-extraction (pk3)](https://github.com/boudinfl/pke) for this task.  ### Step 4: Question Generation ![Generate questions](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/generatequestions-1640779539062-compressed.png) We have the keywords and the text, which will now be used to generate questions related to each keyword.  We can use the [T5 Transformer model](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/t5) that is explicitly trained to take some context and a relevant keyword and generate an appropriate question as shown above. ### Step 5: Getting distractors We have the question and also the right answer for it. To complete the generation of  MCQ, we now need to create distractors which are the wrong choices for the MCQ answer.  For example, if there is a question - What is the capital of India, for which the right answer is New Delhi, then the distractors can be other metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, etc. We can use word vector algorithms and their variants like [sense2vec](https://github.com/explosion/sense2vec) to find distractors. We can also use advanced prompts to [OpenAI's GPT-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3) language model and generate appropriate distractors. · · · OVERVIEW ----------- ![Overview](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_ckv56j50p152671pnz3981o15s/images/9-1640779579786-compressed.png) The diagram above shows different processes that we had used to generate Multiple Choice Questions from a given text.  Notice how using several techniques in combination helps us solve a real-world problem.   · · · This is how we can create Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) automatically using AI. If you want to know more about our tool [Questgen](https://dashboard.questgen.ai/) which provides a simple and easy to use app to automatically create assessments like MCQs, True/False, etc in one click, read this [blog post](https://blog.questgen.ai/questgen-an-advanced-ai-powered-question-generator-that-is-easy-to-use-ckv573yr9152801pnzqn3z0l72/)​ --- This blog is powered by Superblog. Visit https://superblog.ai to know more. --- ## Questgen: An Advanced AI-powered question generator that is easy to use. Author: Unknown Published: 2021-10-24 Tags: artificial intelligence, natural language processing, saas, edtech URL: https://blog.questgen.ai/questgen-an-advanced-ai-powered-question-generator-that-is-easy-to-use-ckv573yr9152801pnzqn3z0l72/ Questgen is an advanced AI-powered question generator built with years of research by the founding team exclusively developing question generation algorithms in edtech. Who are the targeted users for Questgen? ------------------------------------------- ### ​Teachers and Schools  Teachers and Schools can use the Questgen authoring tool to create worksheets easily in a few seconds. They can avoid repetitive questions chosen from a fixed question bank every year. ### HR Teams HR teams can use Questgen to create assessments from compliance documents. Every time there is a change in policies, assessments could be generated and given to employees to make sure that they have read and understood the new policies. ### Textbook publishers Textbook publishers and edtech companies can use Questgen instead of outsourcing the assessment creation process. They can have a small in-house team and save hugely on time and cost. Demo ---- ​[Questgen](https://questgen.ai/) provides an authoring tool to generate various kinds of assessments like Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), True/False Questions, Match the following, etc in 1 click. You can edit and make modifications to the generated worksheet before exporting it as plain text or Pdf. You can take a look at the demo here: Questgen team also released an open-source library [Questgen](https://towardsdatascience.com/questgen-an-open-source-nlp-library-for-question-generation-algorithms-1e18067fcdc6) to generate questions from any text using state-of-the-art NLP techniques. Technology ---------- Want to understand how Questgen marries computational linguistics with the world's most advanced AI algorithms like transformers to create high-quality assessments? Check out our talk: Try out [questgen](https://questgen.ai/) for free and witness the magic for yourself. --- This blog is powered by Superblog. Visit https://superblog.ai to know more. ---