Quiz Maker

What Quiz Maker is

Quiz Maker is a browser-based builder for quizzes, tests, assessments and polls, run by a company that started as an online surveying platform. The site calls it "The free online quiz maker," with quizzes that are "Auto scored, shareable, and ready to embed." It is written for a wide range of makers: teachers and trainers who want graded tests, marketers who want personality or product-finder quizzes with lead capture, and individuals who want a quiz for friends. The About page says the company was founded in Sydney, Australia in 2003 and that its head office now sits "on the Innovation Campus at the University of Wollongong in regional New South Wales." The stated goal is "Make it free to start. Make it fast. Get out of the user's way."

What you build and how

You build a quiz in an editor that the site describes as "a simple point and click" tool, and the pricing FAQ says "Is technical knowledge required? Not at all." The quickest start is the AI Quiz Generator. The site says it "drafts questions from a topic, your notes or a document" and puts them into the editor to check and edit before publishing. The Tutorials page says you can paste "a topic, a PDF, a URL or your own notes" and get a scored draft "in about 30 seconds," and that the editor can expand questions into "38 question types." The site's advice for classroom or practice tests is sensible: check every answer against your source and add explanations where they help.

The site says "Six formats cover almost every quiz job." It describes 2 in detail. A scored quiz is "Best for training, exams and knowledge checks" and captures a pass or fail score and a completion record. An outcome quiz is "Best for personality, segmentation and sorting" and captures an audience segment and a shareable result card. Guidance on the same page recommends explanations after each wrong answer for training, 8 to 15 questions, and a pass threshold between 75 and 85 percent. For outcome and product-recommendation quizzes it calls 8 questions "the sweet spot."

Starting points are plentiful. The examples page offers 76 finished quizzes across scoring, personality, trivia and lead capture. You can take one to see how it feels, or click "Use as template" so the AI generator pre-fills with that topic, then edit the questions, answers and result text. The site says you can publish on a free account "in under 5 minutes." Examples include a home office setup finder with 4 result types and a "Which Course Should You Start With?" quiz that "Replaces a 30-course browse page with a single confident recommendation." A friends section offers ready-made templates for "how well do you know me" quizzes, where you set the answers about yourself, share one link, and a leaderboard shows who knows you best. It is built for WhatsApp and TikTok with no sign-up in the way for the people taking it.

Exam controls live on the Settings tab. The site names a timer, one-time access codes and quiz login "for exam conditions," and says you can export every attempt to Excel. Its comparison with other tools lists what the editor includes: "grades, certificates, personality outcomes, leaderboards, timers, themes and lead capture."

Publishing is by link. After saving you "open the Share tab to copy the direct link, the QR code or the embed code for your website." You can send the link by email, post it to social or paste it into a group chat. Quizzes are self-paced, so "people take them whenever the link reaches them and the results collect for as long as you leave the quiz open." The site contrasts this with Kahoot, which it calls "a live, host-led game," and with Google Forms, "a form tool with a quiz mode." That comparison is the clearest hint at the forms use: Quiz Maker positions itself as a form-like way to collect responses, built for grading and results rather than general data entry. The Platinum and Premium subscriptions also let you build online courses, giving students "a single URL" for individual quizzes or full courses.

The survey roots still show. The About page says that in 2008 the platform "expands beyond surveys into quizzes and polls," and the pricing FAQ applies its response limits to quizzes and surveys alike.

The evidence from the pages

Pricing here is built around responses. The free version "allows you to get a feel for how everything works." The company supports it "by running ads on the results pages and limiting quizzes and surveys to 25 responses." A response is "a unique quiz completion that has passed our security and spam checks," and the limits are account wide. Partially completed and auto-submitted responses are not counted. When you exceed a limit, "Your account will be paused" and you can upgrade from the dashboard right away. The pricing FAQ names Platinum and Premium subscriptions but the material gives no price for them. Paid subscribers get priority support, and the site says it "generally" responds "within 24hrs." Payment is by "all major cards as well as Paypal." The FAQ also describes a trial: "You get full access during your day trial," with no obligation, no bill until the trial ends, and cancellation through the Account section of the dashboard.

The About page supplies the company claims. Nissan "deployed the platform across more than 500 locations to capture customer and dealer feedback," and the New South Wales State Government used it for citizen-facing surveys, both in the first year of enterprise sales. The page adds that the software has been used by editorial teams at Nature and The New York Times, by multiple Fortune 500 companies, and by training, marketing and HR teams at "more than 5,000 brands," and that quizzes on the platform "have been answered by over 107 million people worldwide." It states the platform runs "on a global CDN spanning 19 countries with 99.99% uptime." These are the company's own statements. Martyn Stephens co-founded Quiz Maker in 2003 and wrote the original platform, and the guides are written by Michael Hodge, founder of Quiz Maker.

The pages state no named compliance standard, no hosting region beyond the CDN claim, and no API or code-export option.

Who it suits and who it does not

Quiz Maker suits a teacher, trainer, HR team or small marketer who wants a quiz online in an afternoon and is happy to share it by link, QR code or embed. The free account is enough to test the idea, and the AI generator plus 76 examples shorten the blank-page problem. People who want a social quiz for friends are well served too, since it needs no sign-up from the taker.

The limits are plain. The free account pauses a quiz at 25 responses and shows ads on results pages, which is a real ceiling for a quiz that gets shared widely. The pages mention no collaboration or team permissions, and the site's own comparison says its quizzes are self-paced rather than live. Someone who needs a live, host-led session should look elsewhere.