The tool below shows the answer only when you ask for it, which is the deliberate middle. WeSolve+ is best for turning your own material into questions rather than filling in a template.
WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
Text to an interactive set
This is a browser-only tool, and that is all it isIt splits the text you paste by rule, and nothing else. WeSolve+ is a different thing entirely: it reads your whole PDF with AI, writes the reasoning behind every question, speaks the chapter back to you, and remembers what you missed so it can return it. Try the real app now, free!
This tool uses text rules, not AI. The interaction is deliberately small: each answer is hidden until you open it, so the moment of feedback belongs to you rather than to the page. There is no score, no timer and no animation, because none of those change what you remember. Your text stays in the browser and is never sent anywhere.
The only interaction that changes the outcome
A quiz can animate, count down, play a sound and show a leaderboard, and none of that is what interactivity is doing for learning. The one exchange that matters is: you commit to an answer, and something tells you whether you were right. Commitment is the part people skip, and it is not optional, because reading a question, thinking roughly, and looking at the answer is not the same event as producing an answer first. Everything else on the feature list is user experience work, which is worth doing but is not the mechanism.
Immediate or delayed, and both have a case
Immediate feedback fixes an error before it is practised, which matters most when the material is new and a wrong method would otherwise be rehearsed. Delayed feedback, arriving at the end of a set rather than after each item, tends to produce better retention on a later test, because the gap forces you to hold your own answer rather than replacing it instantly with the correct one. The literature on corrective feedback is genuinely mixed and depends on task and delay, so the honest recommendation is conditional: immediate while learning a procedure, delayed when rehearsing for an exam. A quiz that only offers one of these is making the choice for you.
What a scoreboard is really measuring
Points per second is the default in most interactive quiz products and it changes the activity. It rewards reading speed and recognition, and it penalises the person who pauses to think, so a leaderboard frequently ranks something other than knowledge. There is a second cost that shows up later: a score that rises invites confidence that recall has not earned, the failure researchers measure as a poorly calibrated judgment of learning. If a product lets you score correctness first and use time only to break ties, that setting is worth finding on day one.
Interactive without an account, and why it is possible
Most quiz products need a server because they store your sets, sync them and run a live session. If you need none of those, the whole thing fits in a page: the rules ship with the document and run where you are. That is an ordinary web application pattern, built here the conservative way so the text box and your questions are present in the markup before any script runs, which is progressive enhancement. The practical consequences are worth naming: nothing to install, nothing to update, no account, and it still works with the network off.
Making a set that survives being played twice
Interactivity does nothing for a question whose answer is visible in its own wording, and that is the most common defect in a homemade set. Three habits fix most of it. Write the answer first, then the question that could only produce it. Keep any options plausible, since an item where three of four are absurd tests reading rather than knowledge. And put a third of the set as open questions with no options at all, because recognising the right choice and producing the answer are different abilities, and only one of them is what an exam asks for. The item writing side is covered in more depth on multiple choice test maker.
Where the app takes it further
Upload a PDF, a photograph of a page or a camera shot and WeSolve+ writes an explained quiz from that file, which is interactivity with the reasoning attached rather than a right or wrong marker. Questions you miss are collected and returned on a schedule, so the next session opens with what failed. You can also duel a friend on the same questions, which adds the one social element that genuinely raises effort. At wesolveapp.com in any browser and on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, free to begin. Figures on pricing.
Sources used on this page
- Interactivity
- Corrective feedback
- Human-computer interaction
- User experience
- Web application
- Progressive enhancement
- Single-page application
- Response time (technology)
- Judgment of learning
- Multiple choice
- Recognition memory
- Active recall
- Testing effect
- Spaced repetition
- Desirable difficulty
- Formative assessment
- Roediger and Karpicke, Test-Enhanced Learning (2006)
- Karpicke and Roediger, the critical importance of retrieval (2008)
- Cepeda et al., distributed practice meta analysis (2006)
- Dunlosky et al., improving students' learning (2013)
- What Works Clearinghouse, organizing instruction and study
- The Learning Scientists, retrieval practice
- Retrieval Practice, the research library
- Cloze test
- Anki manual, importing text files
- MDN, the details element
- MDN, the textarea element
- MDN, the Clipboard API
- W3C, the disclosure pattern
- W3C, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2
- WeSolve+ on the App Store
| Feature | Changes learning | What it actually does |
|---|---|---|
| Answer hidden until you commit | Yes, the core one | Forces production rather than recognition |
| Feedback right after each item | Yes, while learning a method | Stops a wrong step being rehearsed |
| Feedback at the end of the set | Yes, when rehearsing | Better retention on a later test |
| Points per second | No, and it distorts | Rewards reading speed over thinking |
| Animation and sound | No | Makes the product pleasant, not memorable |
| Leaderboard | Indirectly | Raises effort, and can rank the wrong thing |
What makes a quiz interactive?
One exchange: you commit to an answer and something responds. Animation, timers and sounds are product polish rather than the mechanism.
Should feedback be immediate or delayed?
Immediate while you are learning a procedure, so a wrong step is not rehearsed. Delayed when you are rehearsing for an exam, because the gap makes you hold your own answer.
Is a scoreboard useful?
It raises effort and it can rank the wrong thing, since points per second reward reading speed. Score correctness first and use time only to break ties.
Does this need an account or an install?
Neither. The rules ship with the page, so there is nothing to sign up for, nothing to update, and it still works with the network off.
Why is there no timer?
Because a timer changes what is being practised and the choice should be yours. The tool hides the answer until you ask, and stops there.
Is anything I paste uploaded?
No. Everything happens in the tab in front of you. Closing it is the end of the session.
Last updated: 2026-08-15