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Moderators can run a Learning Challenge — a live, timed quiz — during a session for quick checkpoints and formative assessment. By combining active recall with spaced repetition, a challenge improves learning outcomes while keeping the class engaged. Here’s a quick overview video of how it works.
There are four steps to running a Learning Challenge.
  1. Use AI to generate questions ahead of your class.
  2. Paste in the questions and set the time limit.
  3. Start the challenge and monitor the live results as students submit their answers.
  4. End the challenge and share the results with student names or pseudonyms.

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1. Use AI to generate questions

As shown in the video above, you can use your favorite AI to generate a formatted list of questions on any topic — anatomy, algebra, English, or anything else you teach. Here are three examples to get you started.

Generate 4 grade 7 English questions, all multiple choice.

Generate 4 grade 9 Algebra questions.

Generate 4 questions on the anatomy of the heart valves, all multiple choice.

Select Copy prompt to copy any of these examples, then paste it into your favorite AI chatbot. To create your own, paste in one of the prompts above and change the first line to match your topic. Each prompt includes formatting instructions below the first line so the AI returns the questions in the format the Learning Challenge expects. For technical details, that format is JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON for short.

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2. Paste in the questions

To launch a challenge, select +, then select Learning Challenge. Paste in the JSON list of questions, then set the time limit. In the example below, we pasted in questions about English grammar and set the time limit to 120 seconds, or two minutes.
Learning Challenge question creation interface

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3. Start the challenge

Once you select Start Challenge, your students see the first question. They can navigate through the questions and see the time remaining in the upper right-hand corner.
Grammar quiz question about identifying an adverb
As students answer, you see live analytics for the challenge.
Leaderboard showing Student A's quiz progress

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4. End the challenge

Once your students have submitted their answers, you see a preview of the results.
Learning Competition results sharing options
If you select Share anonymously, each student is given a randomly generated pseudonym, such as “Eager Butterfly” or “Mighty Seahorse”, that only they know. The results are published with everyone’s pseudonyms, but each student only knows their own.
Learning Competition Results: Outstanding
Each student sees their pseudonym along with the correct answers for any questions they got wrong.
Ranked #1 as Outstanding Albatross in a quiz
A typical Learning Challenge takes only a few minutes. You can create a set of challenges ahead of class with a few prompts and have them ready whenever you want to give students a chance to test their knowledge.
The Learning Challenge is low-stakes quizzing. Results do not pass back to the gradebook in your LMS.