Using Chat GPT and Gemini to generate questions for a Blooket Quiz

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

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