Quizicist: an AI-powered quiz generator

Getting started

Want to quickly generate a quiz? Visit our hosted Quizicist instance at quizici.st. With a piece of text content (eg. a textbook or lecture notes), Quizicist can generate a quiz in minutes. Once you review the questions and mark answers as correct or incorrect, you can export the quiz to Google Forms, mdbook-quiz, or plain text.

Running Quizicist locally

Running into rate limits at quizici.st? Quizicist can be deployed locally with the following instructions:

Environment variables

You'll need to create a .env file in the root of the project with the following key-value pair:

OPENAI_SECRET_KEY=<your openai API key>

Dependencies

You'll also need to install dependencies:

$ cd lib && pip3 install -e . && cd ..
$ cd site && pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$ cd frontend && npm install --legacy-peer-deps

Database

When developing/running locally, we use SQLite to store generated items:

$ cd site
$ python3 create_db.py # set up local sqlite database

Running the server + frontend

In one shell:

$ cd site
$ flask --app backend/main --debug run --port 5000 # run server in debug mode

In another shell:

$ cd site/frontend && npm run dev -- --port 3000