Turn a YouTube video into a quiz

A ten-minute explainer can carry a whole lesson. The trouble is checking whether it landed. You either trust that everyone watched it, or you sit down and write comprehension questions from memory.

Yippito can build those questions from the video itself. Give it the link and the transcript, and it writes a quiz grounded in what was actually said — timestamps of understanding, not vibes.

The one manual step, up front

Be ready for this, because it is the honest catch: you paste the transcript in yourself.Yippito can read a video’s title, but YouTube does not hand a video’s captions to anyone except its own player. So you copy the transcript across once.

It takes about fifteen seconds. Under any YouTube video, open the “...more” description and click “Show transcript”. A panel opens on the right with the whole thing. Select it, copy, and paste it into Yippito. That is the entire chore.

It reads the whole video, not just the intro

A long talk produces a long transcript — often too long to hand to an AI in one go. The lazy fix is to cut it off, which gives you a quiz about the first five minutes and nothing after. Yippito samples across the whole transcript instead, so a forty-minute documentary yields questions spread from the opening to the closing, not bunched at the start.

What it is good for

Set a flipped-classroom video for homework and open the next lesson with a quiz that proves who watched it. Turn a conference talk into a quick team check. Take a language-learning clip and test the vocabulary it introduced. Anywhere a video is doing the teaching, a quiz is how you find out if it worked.

Where it struggles

No transcript, no quiz. A video with captions turned off — or a piece of music, or raw footage with no speech — has nothing to read. If YouTube can show you a transcript, Yippito can use it; if it can’t, there is nothing to paste.

Auto-generated captions are also only as good as the audio. A clear narrator transcribes cleanly; a noisy panel with three people talking over each other gives you a messier transcript, and messier questions follow. And as always, the draft opens in the editor first — read it, fix anything, then play it.

How to do it

Sign in, open AI Studio and pick YouTube → Quiz. Paste the video link, paste the transcript, choose how many questions and how hard, and generate. Seconds later you have a draft in the editor. Host it, share the PIN, and your class or team joins with no account at all.