Turn PowerPoint slides into a quiz or an interactive lesson
Upload your PowerPoint (.pptx) to Cazuz and pick the path that fits: slides that already hold questions are imported as a worksheet and become a quiz, while teaching slides are uploaded as a lesson and AI suggests questions where they fit. Either way you check everything before students see it.
How to turn PowerPoint slides into a quiz
Pick the path for your slides
Slides that already hold questions, such as a review deck with the answers on the slides or in the notes, become a quiz with the steps below. Slides that only teach become a lesson instead, see the note under these steps.
Choose where the quiz will run
Press Create Game and pick Live Quiz to play it on the board, or press Create Activity and pick Assessment to set it as homework.
Upload the .pptx
Press From a worksheet and drop your PowerPoint (.pptx) on the box, up to 15 MB. Cazuz reads the text of every slide in the order the deck plays, with the speaker notes, and sends only the text.
Import the questions
Keep Import every question ticked, or choose a number. Add a focus line if you like, then press Import worksheet. It usually takes under a minute.
Check the questions, then play or assign
Read the quiz in the editor and change anything. Then host it on the board while students join at cazuz.net/play with a code, or press Assign and share a link or QR code with a class.
What you get
- Your own questions, not new ones, read from slide text in the order the deck plays
- Speaker notes read too, so an answer you keep in the notes is used as the answer
- Answers marked in bold, underline or highlight read as right, and struck-through choices as wrong
- Tables on a slide read row by row, so a two-column table can become a matching question
- A count of slides that were only pictures, so you know what could not be read
- Or, as a lesson, your slides on the board with AI suggested questions you keep or remove
Questions teachers ask
- Should I import it as a worksheet or as a lesson?
- Import it as a worksheet when the slides already contain questions: they are pulled out and become a quiz. Upload it as a lesson when the slides teach something and have no questions yet: the slides stay as pictures and AI suggests questions where they fit. The two do different jobs and use different buttons.
- Does it read the speaker notes?
- Yes. The notes under each slide are read with it, because teachers often keep the answer there. Cazuz treats them as the speaker notes of that slide.
- What about pictures and diagrams on my slides?
- As a worksheet, only text is read: a slide made of pictures has nothing to import, and Cazuz tells you how many slides were pictures only. As a lesson, switch on Read the pictures on my slides and the AI looks at the images too.
- Do my animations and design carry over?
- Not in either path. A worksheet import takes only the text. A lesson turns each slide into a still picture, so PowerPoint animations do not play. Google Slides has no direct import: download it as a PowerPoint file first.
- Which PowerPoint files and sizes work?
- PowerPoint (.pptx) files. Older .ppt files need saving again as .pptx first. A worksheet import takes up to 15 MB. A lesson takes up to 50 MB.
- Does it cost anything?
- The free plan includes AI credits every month. A worksheet import uses one credit. A lesson's AI Autopilot uses 1, 2 or 3, and the number shows on the button before you press it. If a run fails, the credits come back. Credits refill on the 1st of each month.
- Is my presentation used to train AI?
- No. The text of your slides, and their pictures only if you switch pictures on, go to Anthropic's Claude, which does not use them to train its models. Cut out any slides with students' names before you upload.