How to Create AI-Powered Quizzes in Slack for Training and Microlearning

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Building training quizzes from scratch is tedious. Writing questions, inventing plausible wrong answers, checking facts, keeping everything current: a single 10-question quiz can eat an afternoon. Most L&D teams have shelves of training material that never becomes anything actionable because the conversion effort is too high.

AI changes the math. Describe a topic or paste existing content and get structured, multiple-choice questions in seconds, each with a correct answer, three plausible distractors, and an explanation. The result: Slack-native quizzes that reinforce knowledge where work already happens.

This guide walks through how to create AI quizzes in Slack, turn legacy training documents into microlearning, and track what your team actually knows.

Why let AI write your quiz questions

Manual quiz creation has three problems that compound over time:

1. It's slow. A solid 10-question quiz with believable wrong answers and explanations takes 1-2 hours. Most teams need quizzes across multiple topics, departments, and onboarding stages.
2. Questions go stale. Policies change, products evolve, compliance requirements update. A question bank that nobody maintains silently becomes inaccurate.
3. Coverage is uneven. Authors write questions about areas they know well and skip the rest. Gaps in the quiz mirror gaps in the team.

Doozy's quiz generator addresses all three. Enter a topic, and it searches the web for current information, then produces structured questions with one correct answer, three plausible distractors, and a short explanation. Review and edit before publishing, the same way you'd review any AI-generated content.

A quiz that used to take an hour now takes under two minutes. Regenerate it next quarter and the questions reflect the latest information automatically.

What you can build

Topic-based quizzes

Type a topic and get questions instantly:

• "GDPR data handling for customer support teams"
• "Product features released in Q4 2025"
• "Workplace safety procedures for warehouse staff"
• "Sales objection handling for enterprise accounts"

Questions match the topic's complexity and scope. Need more? Hit Load More to get additional non-duplicate questions.

Knowledge checks from existing documents

This is where the approach becomes a force multiplier. Take materials you already have (employee handbooks, SOPs, product docs, policy PDFs) and turn them into knowledge checks.

Instead of asking employees to read a 30-page document and hoping they retain the key points, extract the critical knowledge into questions that test comprehension and surface gaps. Pair them with Tracks to deliver lessons and checks in sequence.

Compliance quizzes

Security awareness, data privacy, code of conduct, anti-harassment: compliance topics need regular reinforcement. Generate questions that cover the breadth of the domain, set quizzes as mandatory, and let Doozy handle auto-reminders for incomplete assignments.

Onboarding knowledge checks

New hires absorb a lot in their first weeks. Reinforce key information with quizzes delivered through Slack at the right moments in their onboarding journey: company values, tool usage, team processes, role-specific knowledge.

How to create an AI quiz in Slack

1. Create a new quiz

Open the Doozy web app and start a new quiz. Give it a clear title so participants know what they're being tested on (e.g., "Q1 Product Updates" or "Data Privacy Fundamentals").

2. Generate questions

In the question editor, click Generate with AI. Two options:

• Enter a topic: Type something like "Kubernetes basics for DevOps" or "Customer escalation procedures." Doozy searches for current information and builds multiple-choice questions from it.
• Paste existing content: Copy text from a handbook, SOP, or training document. Doozy extracts the key concepts and turns them into questions that test comprehension.

Each question includes the question text, one correct answer, three plausible alternatives, and an optional explanation shown after the participant answers.

3. Review and refine

Generated questions appear in your editor. Review each one:

• Edit wording to match your team's terminology
• Adjust answer options or remove questions that don't fit
• Click Load More for additional questions on the same topic (duplicates are filtered automatically)

Mix generated questions with manual ones, or pull from your existing question bank.

4. Configure settings

• Mandatory completion: Toggle on for compliance quizzes. Participants receive reminders at intervals you choose.
• Due date and expiry: Set a deadline so people know when the quiz closes.
• Results visibility: Show correct answers after submission, after each question, or not at all.

5. Target your audience

• Slack channel: Post directly in a channel.
• Channel members: Send as individual DMs to each member.
• HRIS groups: Target by department, location, tenure, or manager using your HRIS integration. Security quiz for engineering only, onboarding quiz for hires in their first 30 days.
• New hires or manager's reports: Narrow the audience further.

6. Schedule or send

Send immediately or schedule for a specific date. For recurring training, set a cadence (daily, weekly, monthly) and quizzes go out on autopilot.

Participants answer directly in Slack. No browser, no portal, no context switch.

Turn legacy training into Slack microlearning

Most organizations have years of training content buried in shared drives, wikis, and LMS platforms that employees rarely open. The content isn't bad. The delivery is.

Here's how to convert that material into effective Slack-based microlearning:

1. Audit what you have. Identify documents that are still relevant but underused: onboarding guides, product playbooks, compliance manuals, process docs.
2. Break it into topics. A 40-page employee handbook isn't one quiz. It's 8-10 topic areas (company values, PTO policy, security practices, communication norms). Each becomes a short quiz of 5-10 questions.
3. Generate questions from each section. Paste the relevant text into Doozy's generator and review what comes back.
4. Build a learning track. Combine quizzes into a Track, a sequenced series of lessons and knowledge checks delivered over days or weeks. An onboarding track might deliver one topic per day with a quiz after each.
5. Deliver in Slack. The entire path runs inside Slack as DMs or channel messages. No portal, no extra logins.
6. Iterate. Review scores after the first cohort. Low scores on specific questions point to content that needs clarification. Update the source material, regenerate, and repeat.

Track results and close knowledge gaps

Delivering quizzes is half the job. The other half is acting on what you learn.

Doozy's analytics dashboard shows:

• Completion rates by department, team, or tenure.
• Score distribution so you can tell whether the quiz was too easy, too hard, or just right.
• Question-level breakdown: which questions had the lowest correct-answer rate. These are your real knowledge gaps.
• Time spent: unusually fast completions suggest guessing; slow ones suggest confusion.
• Trends over time: run the same topic quarterly and watch scores climb. That's the signal learning is sticking.

Managers get dashboard access for their team. For mandatory quizzes, automated reminders go out to anyone who hasn't finished on schedule.

Export to CSV for deeper analysis, or push data to your BI tools via Zapier or Make.

Use cases

Onboarding: Replace the "read and acknowledge" checkbox with actual knowledge verification. Deliver quizzes through a Slack Track during a new hire's first 30 days. Managers see exactly what's landing.

Compliance: Generate question sets from your policies, set quizzes as mandatory, and export completions for audit documentation.

Product launches: Ship a major update? Generate a quiz from the release notes. Sales, support, and CS take it before customer conversations begin.

Sales enablement: Competitive positioning, pricing changes, objection handling. Run recurring weekly challenges with leaderboards to keep it competitive.

Ongoing reinforcement: Schedule the same topic monthly or quarterly with fresh questions each time. Scores trend upward as the team internalizes the material, and you have the data to prove it.

AI quizzes vs. manual quiz creation

The best approach combines both: generate a strong baseline, then layer in manual questions for nuance only subject-matter experts can provide.

Get started

Doozy turns hours of quiz creation into minutes. Generate questions from any topic, convert stale training docs into Slack-native microlearning, and track real comprehension instead of completion checkboxes.

Combine quizzes with Tracks for sequenced learning and analytics dashboards for gap analysis, and you have a complete Slack-first training toolkit.

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