Turn a PDF into a Canvas quiz.

Canvas imports quizzes from a QTI package — a specific zip format — not from a PDF or a Word document. So when you have a reading, a study guide, or a paper exam as a PDF, there is no “upload PDF, get quiz” button. The official paths are all manual: retype every question into the Canvas quiz editor, or hand-format the questions into a text file that a converter can turn into QTI.

Both take real time, and neither helps with the actual work of writing good questions from the reading in the first place.

QuizCraft collapses the whole path into three steps. You give it the PDF; it drafts the questions for you and produces a Canvas-ready QTI package. Every question is tied to the exact paragraph in the PDF it came from, and that citation rides along into Canvas.

1. 1. Upload the PDF — a chapter, article, lecture notes, or a scanned paper exam.
2. 2. Generate & review — choose multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in or short answer; check the source citation on each draft.
3. 3. Export QTI & import to Canvas — download the zip, then in Canvas use Settings → Import Course Content → QTI .zip file.

Once you have the QTI zip from QuizCraft, the Canvas side is the standard import flow:

• Open your Canvas course and go to Settings.
• Click Import Course Content in the right sidebar.
• Set Content Type to QTI .zip file, choose the file, and import.
• The quiz lands in your question bank / quizzes, ready to assign.

The same QTI export works for Blackboard, Moodle and Brightspace too — so if you teach across systems, you author once and import anywhere. See the QTI generator page for the format details.

A quiz generated by a generic AI tool is a black box: if a student appeals a question, the instructor can't say where it came from. QuizCraft keeps the receipt. Because every question is anchored to a specific paragraph of the uploaded PDF, the instructor can point at the reading — and the exported package preserves that link for any later academic-integrity review. If your campus cares about that, the Center for Teaching & Learning pilot is built around it.

Run QuizCraft against a sample reading with no signup and watch the questions — and their citations — appear. The free tier covers a few quizzes a month; Pro is $12/month (or $79/year) per instructor for higher volume and every export format.