How to Create Assessment Questions from Files and Images Using AI

Maybe you have some teaching materials or educational resources stored on your computer or mobile device; and you want to create your quiz, assignment, homework, classwork, or any type of assessment/questions based on them. You have several ways to do this.

In this article, we’ll discuss two methods, ranked in order of effectiveness.

1. Create Assessment Questions from Uploaded Documents or Images with Monsha

This is the easiest, quickest, and smartest way—and it’s free! Monsha for question creation is great because it reads complex external files and handles the structuring of the questions and overall assessments, so you don’t have to worry about writing prompts or all the details.

You can use a file to base your questions on. You can also pull in YouTube videos or external URLs as sources for your assessment.

You can include diverse question types in your quiz or assessment, with the option to align them with specific standards. Plus, you can export it in the platform or format that works best for you, including Google Forms.

Here's how to do it:

1. Head over to Monsha and sign up or log in—it takes just two clicks!

2. Once you're in, you'll see a list of resources to create — including presentations, worksheets and reading comprehension questions. Choose Questions.

3. You'll be taken to the assessment creation page. Here, you can assign your assessment to a course, unit, and lesson. This step is optional, but we recommend doing it to keep your resources organized and make the most of Monsha's ability to plan your entire course or subject into units and lessons. But feel free to skip it now—you can always attach or detach your resources from a course later.

4. Next, choose what you want your questions to be based on. You can add a topic, paste a URL, use an article or YouTube video, upload a file or image, or even base it on a resource you've created before in Monsha. You can also combine multiple options if needed.

For this tutorial, we’ll select A file upload.

5. Select and upload the file from your device. The more readable your file is, the better the output will be.

If your file format isn’t supported, use a free online tool to convert it to a compatible format.

6. If you didn't assign a course in the earlier step, you'll need to select the grade level and language in this step.

7. Finally, select the question-types you want to include in your quiz or assessment. Select only the ones you need and in your desired order. Currently, the available options are:

✅ Essential Questions
✅ Multiple Choice Questions
✅ Fill in the blank questions
✅ True/False questions
✅ Short answer questions
✅ Open-ended prompts

Feel free to also include any additional instructions you might have.

8. Optionally, you can assign a DOK level, Bloom's Taxonomy level, or Lexile reading level to adapt your questions.

9. Click Generate, and your assessment will be ready in seconds!

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But there's even more power in your hands! Once you generate the assessment, you can:

1. Edit it as much as you like with Monsha's powerful editor, which supports rich content like tables, code, images, equations, and almost anything!
2. Re-generate the content with just one click if it's not quite what you were looking for.
3. Differentiate the questions based on grade level, language, DOK level, Lexile reading level, or Bloom's taxonomy.
4. Export it as a Google Forms quiz, or PDF, Google Doc, and other formats.
5. Create additional resources (like a worksheet, lesson plan, presentation, or study materials) based on the questions you just made.

You can always access your assessment later from your Monsha account.

Easy, right? Now, let's move on to alternative methods.

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2. Create questions from URLs - using ChatGPT-4o

ChatGPT and Claude now allow you to upload documents in their free versions. So let’s utilize that.

The steps are more or less the same for both chatbots. For example, here are the steps to follow in ChatGPT:

1. Sign in to your ChatGPT console and make sure you've selected the GPT-4o model.
2. Upload the file you want to use as a source.
3. Start prompting with something like this:

You are an expert teacher and educator, skilled at creating effective and detailed resources for your students.
Create 5 multiple choice questions appropriate for grade 10 based on the content of the attached file.

3. You might want to include answers and explanations:

Can you provide an answer key for the teacher under each question. Explain the answers in one sentence.

4. You can tweak it for your students. Maybe you want more questions, different difficulty levels, or a varied number of options in your MCQs.

Make the questions appropriate for grade 8 students. Add 3 more questions. Different questions will have different numbers of options.

5. Additionally you can ask ChatGPT to find educational videos or resources or create study plans for the students to prepare for the assessment:

Can you search the internet for some additional educational videos and articles on these questions so that students can use them to prepare for the assessment?

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You can reduce the number of follow-ups though by using a more comprehensive, structured prompt for different question-types.

Caution: If you’re using the free version of ChatGPT or Claude, there’s a capped message limit that varies based on system load. So if your document contains too much text for the AI to process, consider summarizing it before submitting.

Feel free to try both of these methods and see what works best for your workflow. Pretty sure you’ll find Monsha to be the ideal choice—not because we’re biased, but because we designed Monsha to give teachers an easy, iterative, and super-quick way to create just-right resources. Give it a go!