Turn your notes into multiple choice practice and flashcards with AI
Upload a PDF, slides, notes or a photo of a page. DeckOwl builds multiple choice questions with explanations and flashcards with spaced repetition from your own material.
Multiple choice practice from your own material
Flashcards test recall, but a multiple choice question makes you choose between plausible answers, which exposes gaps a plain card can hide. DeckOwl works as a multiple choice flashcard maker for your own material: upload a PDF, slides, notes or a photo of a page, and it generates quizzes with explanations plus flashcards with spaced repetition.
- Multiple choice questions generated from your own PDFs, slides or notes
- Explanations for each answer, so wrong options teach something too
- Flashcards with spaced repetition in the same study set
- Free plan with 3 generations per month and no credit card needed
Multiple choice quizzes
Each question comes with an explanation for the correct answer, so you learn why the wrong options fail.
Flashcards with spaced repetition
Cards return on a schedule that brings back the ones you are about to forget.
Built from your own material
Upload PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, plain text or photos of pages and get questions based on that content.
How it works
Upload your material
Add a PDF, DOCX, PPTX, notes or a photo of a page.
Choose quizzes or flashcards
Pick multiple choice, true/false or short answer questions, or flashcards, depending on what you need to practice.
Study in your browser
The free plan includes 3 generations per month, and no credit card is needed to start.
Printable question banks are useful, but they rarely match the chapter or lecture you are sitting in. Generating from your own files keeps the questions tied to what your instructor actually covered, and you can study them in the browser right away.
Use both formats for different skills. Flashcards help with quick recall of terms and definitions, while multiple choice questions test whether you can apply them to a scenario.
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Frequently asked questions
How many answer choices should a multiple choice question on supply and demand have?
Four choices is the most common format and leaves enough room for realistic distractors without turning the question into a guessing exercise. Make sure only one option is clearly correct and the others reflect real misconceptions.
What makes a good wrong answer in an economics multiple choice question?
A useful distractor reflects a common mistake, such as treating a change in price as a shift in demand. Read the explanation after each question to see exactly why the wrong choice fails.
Can I export multiple choice quizzes to Anki or PDF?
Exports are paid features. Plus includes PDF, DOCX, Anki and CSV export, and Pro adds QTI 2.1 and Moodle XML, while the free plan is limited to 3 generations per month with studying in the browser.
Do I need a credit card to try DeckOwl?
No. You can start on the free plan without a credit card, and students get 40% off with a school email.
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