How to Create Assessment Questions from YouTube Videos Using AI

Maybe you found a video lecture, tutorial, discussion, song, documentary, presentation, or anything on YouTube; and you want to create your quiz, assignment, homework, classwork, or any type of assessment/questions based on the video.

In this article, we will explain three ways you can do that, ranked in order of effectiveness.

1. Create questions from YouTube video - using Monsha

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

Plus it can create many question-types: MCQ, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, open-ended prompt, among others.

Follow these steps:

1. Head 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. Choose Questions.

   

3. On the assessment creation page, you can assign your assessment to a course, unit, and lesson. This is optional, but we recommend it to keep things organized and make it easier to plan and maintain your entire course later. Again, this is optional at this point—you can always attach your resources to a course later if needed.

   

4. Now, choose what you want your questions to be based on. You can add a topic, paste a URL, use an article or YouTube video, or even base it on a resource (like a lesson plan, or a reading passage) you’ve created before on Monsha. In the context of this tutorial, select A YouTube video.

   

5. Paste the YouTube link. We suggest using a video with subtitles or closed captions (CC) to help our AI process it better. And make sure the video is public, not private or unlisted.

6. If you haven’t assigned a course, select the grade level and language.

   

7. Choose the question-types you want to include in your quiz or assessment. Select only the ones you need and in your desired order.

   

8. Click Generate, and your assessment with desired question-types will be ready in seconds!

   

You can either download it immediately or access it anytime later from your Monsha account.

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

2. Create questions from YouTube video - using ChatGPT 4o

For this to work, you’ll need access to the ChatGPT-4o model because GPT-3.5 can’t read external links or YouTube videos, and GPT-4 can be hit or miss.

Here’s a step-by-step guide:

1. Sign in to your ChatGPT console and make sure you’ve selected the GPT-4o model.

2. Start prompting with something like this:

   You are an expert teacher, skilled in producing detailed, authentic, and correct student assessments. Create 5 multiple choice questions appropriate for grade 10 based strictly on the content of this video: [insert YT video URL]

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?

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

3. Create questions from YouTube video- using ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4, Copilot and other AI

If you don’t have access to ChatGPT 4o, or somehow even GPT 4o can’t read your URL, here’s a workaround you can use in ChatGPT 3.5, GPT4, Copilot or Claude:

1. Use one of the free subtitle downloader tools to extract subtitles from the YouTube video, then download it as a doc or word file.

2. If the subtitle is too long for ChatGPT to process (since it has word limits), you need to summarize it using the following steps:

   1. Split the long document into manageable sections.
   2. Use ChatGPT (or the AI you’re using) to summarize each section separately.
   3. Combine the summaries of each section.
   4. Summarize the combined summaries to create a more concise overview.
   5. Repeat this process recursively until you have a summary that covers the entire document. This article demonstrates the steps of summarizing long documents using ChatGPT.

3. Now ask ChatGPT to create questions based on the final summary. For this you can follow the prompting steps in Method 2.

Feel free to try all of these methods and see what works best for your workflow. Most likely, you’ll find Monsha to be the ideal choice—not because we’re biased, but because we designed Monsha like that—to offer teachers a better way of creating content. Give it a try!