Chat GPT and Gemini are very good at generating MCQ-type questions, and Blooket is a great way to have some fun in class while assessing learning. But how to quickly and easily get the questions into Blooket? Here are some prompts and the steps that I used.
Chat GPT
I used these prompts:
- Please can you generate 20 multiple choice questions on [topic] for [Age/Gender/Grade/location]
- Please lay the questions out with the question and answers all on one line and indicate the correct answer at the end of the line
- Please separate the questions with a semi-colon and do not use A B C D. For the correct answer just say 1 2 3 or 4
- Please keep all the distractors
I could then copy/paste the questions into Excel/Sheets and
- search and replace ? with ?;
- separate text to columns using the semi-colon as the delimiter
- add an extra column for time limit between Q4 and the answer - fill it with a reasonable amount eg 60
Finally I could
- go to Create in Blooket
- select the Import from CSV option
- download the CSV template
- paste the info from the spreadsheet, making sure to get everything in the correct columns
- if you first paste into Notepad, that will give you "clean" text; or paste "values only"
You can then add graphics etc
Gemini
I used these prompts:
- Please can you generate 20 multiple choice questions on [topic] for [Age/Gender/Grade/location]
- Please lay the questions out with the question and answers all on one line and indicate the correct answer at the end of the line
- Please separate the questions with a semi-colon and do not use (a) (b) (c) (d). For the correct answer just say 1 2 3 or 4
- Please keep all the distractors
I could then copy/paste the questions into Excel/Sheets and
- search and replace : with :;
- separate text to columns using the semi-colon as the delimiter
- add an extra column for time limit between Q4 and the answer - fill it with a reasonable amount eg 60
Finally I could
- go to Create in Blooket
- select the Import from CSV option
- download the CSV template
- paste the info from the spreadsheet, making sure to get everything in the correct columns
- if you first paste into Notepad, that will give you "clean" text; or paste "values only"
You can then add graphics etc
Conclusions
- Chat GPT generated more academic questions, Gemini's were more "chatty"
- Gemini only made 14 questions although I asked for 20
- Gemini was much faster than Chat GPT