QuizPilot can now ask you to write the answer

This one came from a single request. A teacher using QuizPilot with a class did not want multiple choice at all, and asked for the kind of test where a student writes the answer out and submits it, because that is what the real exam looks like. Written answers are now a question type in QuizPilot, sitting alongside multiple choice rather than replacing it.

There are three ways to make one. Upload a PDF, DOCX, or XLSX and pick the written-answer format. Type a topic and generate. Or open the new manual builder and write the questions yourself, which also means QuizPilot can finally build a plain multiple-choice quiz by hand. A single quiz can mix both types, so a test can open with ten variants and close with two questions that ask for a paragraph.

Grading is the hard part, and it is where most of the work went. When you finish a written quiz, the AI auditor reads every answer and returns one of three verdicts, correct, partial, or incorrect, with written feedback on each one. A reference answer is optional. If the source document carried an answer key, the auditor grades against it. If it did not, the auditor grades from what it knows and the results screen says so, labelled as graded without an answer key, because a mark you cannot trace back to something is worth less than a mark you can. Creating written tests is free, playing them is free, and checking yourself against a reference answer is free. The AI auditor is a Premium feature.

Group tests work too. A host can run a written test with a class, mark the submitted answers by hand, and publish the results, all on the free tier. Teacher accounts get a Mark all with AI button that grades the whole room in one pass. Group scoring gives 100 points for a correct answer, 50 for a partial one, and nothing for an incorrect one.

One limitation is deliberate. Written extraction never happens on its own: upload a document and you still get multiple choice unless you explicitly ask for written answers. We have been bitten before by an extraction pipeline that tried to be clever about what a document wanted, so this path is a separate module that the default flow never touches. It costs an extra tap. We would rather have the extra tap than a quiz that quietly changed shape on the way in.