You can turn training slides into a quiz with AI in about ten minutes. Export the deck as a PDF. Keep only the slides people must remember. Let the AI draft the questions. Then check every answer against the slide it came from before anyone in the room sees it. Most guides skip that last step, and it is the one that decides whether your quiz teaches or embarrasses you.
We build the live quiz tools trainers use for onboarding, compliance refreshers and product launches. We have watched quiet training rooms turn into rooms that argue about the right answer, which is exactly what you want. We have also seen AI drafts with a confident, wrong answer key. You can have the speed without the wrong answers.
Why a quiz beats one more slide
People keep more of what they pull out of memory than what they read again. Cognitive scientist Pooja Agarwal sums up the research on her retrieval practice site: bringing information to mind is what makes it stick. A slide asks people to recognise an idea. A quiz asks them to recall it. Recall is harder, and that effort is what builds memory.
There is a practical reason as well. A quiz shows you, while everyone is still in the room, which ideas did not land. If most people pick the wrong step for a refund, you explain refunds again before the session ends. Without the quiz, you find out from a customer three weeks later.
What changes when the quiz is live
A live quiz is not a form people fill in later. Everyone answers on their own phone at the same time. The timer runs, the right answer appears, and the room sees how it split. That moment is where the learning happens. The wrong answers start the best conversations, because people want to know why their choice was wrong.
How to turn training slides into a quiz in five steps
1. Keep only the slides people must remember
Skip the title slide, the agenda, the team introductions and the "any questions?" slide. Mark every slide that holds a rule, a number, a decision or a step in a process. Those are your quiz material. A 45-minute session usually has ten to fifteen of them, which is enough for a ten-question quiz.
2. Give the AI the slides as a PDF or photos
Export the deck as a PDF. PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides all do this from the export or download menu. In RiLiFi, Generate with AI sits next to Start blank when you create a quiz. It reads a PDF of up to 10 MB, taking the first 30 pages and up to 20,000 characters. You can also take photos of up to three slides (JPG, PNG or WebP). The file is read in your browser and never stored.
If your deck runs past 30 pages, export only the must-know slides you marked in step one. The quiz gets sharper, and the AI has less filler to wade through.
3. Ask for the kind of question you want
You describe the quiz in one sentence. Name the audience and what they should be able to do afterwards. For example: "10 questions for new support agents on our refund policy, about what to do, not definitions." You can ask for anywhere from 5 to 20 questions. Each one comes back with the right answer and a short reason.
Ask for scenario questions where you can. "A customer asks for a refund on day 31. What do you do?" tests a decision. "What is the refund window?" only tests a number. The first one changes how people work.
4. Check every answer before you save
Every drafted question shows the line from your slides it was built from. Read that line next to the answer. For each question you can keep it, drop it, edit it or redo it, with up to five redos per draft. Drafts wait for two hours, so you can step away and come back. The screen also says it plainly: "AI can make mistakes. Check answers before going live."
5. Set the timers and run it live
Quiz timers run from 5 to 999 seconds, with 30 seconds as the default. Give scenario questions longer, around 45 to 60 seconds, because people need time to read and think. People join at rilifi.com/join with the PIN, the QR code or a direct link. They need no app and no account. RiLiFi's free tier allows 100 participants per session, so a full onboarding cohort fits without paying anything.
What to check before you trust an AI quiz
AI makes drafting fast. It does not make the answer key right. NIST's voluntary AI Risk Management Framework asks organisations to build trustworthiness into how they use and evaluate AI. For a trainer, that means one simple habit: a person checks every answer before the quiz goes live.
| Check | Why it matters | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| The answer matches the slide line | AI can sound sure and still be wrong | Compare it with the source line, then edit or drop it |
| Only one answer is clearly right | Two defensible answers start the wrong argument | Rewrite the weak option, or mark both as correct |
| It tests a decision, not a word | Trivia recall does not change behaviour | Turn definitions into short scenarios |
| Dates, prices and versions are current | Training decks go out of date fast | Fix the deck first, then draft again |
| No personal data on the slides | Example slides often show real customer names | Remove them before you upload the PDF |
Some topics change fast, like a product released this year or an updated certification. For those, the AI looks facts up on the web before it drafts. That takes about 15 to 20 seconds. It still does not replace your own check.
Can AI make a quiz from a PowerPoint?
Yes, as long as it can read the content. Export the PowerPoint to PDF, or photograph the three slides that matter most. If a key fact lives only in your speaker notes, the AI will not see it. Put it on the slide, or add it to your one-sentence description.
How many questions should a training quiz have?
For a 45 to 60 minute session, eight to twelve questions work well. Split them: a few in the middle of the session and the rest at the end. If you want to prove the training worked, run the same quiz before and after the session and compare the averages. We explain how in our guide to pre and post training quizzes.
What does it cost?
Create with AI is on every plan. The free plan gets 10 AI credits a month. A quiz drafted from a sentence costs 1 credit, and one drafted from a PDF or photos costs 2. Redos and failed requests are free. That is up to five slide-based quizzes a month without paying anything. The plans page has the credits for each plan.
What we see working in real training rooms
The trainers who get the most out of this do three things. First, they put a short quiz in the middle of the session, not only at the end. That way they can still fix gaps while people are in the room. Second, they talk through the wrong answers out loud. The discussion after a split result teaches more than the question did. Third, they reuse. The quiz lives in a folder, the next cohort gets the same questions, and the session history shows whether the scores move.
If you would rather not start from your own deck, our ready-made quiz templates give you checked questions with sources to adapt.
Start with your next deck: open Create with AI, upload the PDF, check every answer, and run it as a live quiz at your next session.