Bring Your Own AI: Filling a Question Bank Template With Any Assistant
If you already have a favourite AI assistant open in another tab, you can put it to work building practice questions without learning a new tool. ClassKite's Question Bank spreadsheet template includes a built-in prompt written for AI agents, so you can ask any assistant to draft the rows, then upload the finished file and review it. This guide walks through that "bring your own AI" path for building an ai question bank you actually trust.
Why bring your own assistant?
ClassKite gives you three ways to build questions: type them by hand for free, use ClassKite's own AI question drafting, or fill the spreadsheet template with an outside assistant and upload it. The third route suits teachers who already pay for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or similar and would rather generate a whole topic's worth of questions in one go. Whichever route you pick, the AI drafts questions only — it never reads your PDF, never writes a lesson plan, and never marks anything for you. You stay the editor.
The workflow, step by step
- Download the Question Bank template from ClassKite. It ships with an instructions sheet and a ready-made prompt aimed at AI agents.
- Copy that built-in prompt and paste it into any AI assistant you like. Add your topic, year group and the question types you want.
- Let the assistant fill in the rows. You can ask for multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank (word or number), true/false, matching, jumbled-sentence and more, with maths written as LaTeX and images attached later.
- Read every row. The assistant is a first draft — fix wording, correct answers and difficulty before anything reaches your class.
- Upload the completed spreadsheet back into ClassKite, then review each imported question once more and group them into named practices within your sections.
For deeper advice on structuring those rows so they stay reusable term after term, the companion guide on building a reusable question bank for your subject covers naming and organisation in detail.
Reviewing what the AI gives you
An outside assistant is fast but not infallible, so treat its output as a starting point. Check that each correct answer is genuinely correct, that distractors are plausible, and that maths renders properly. Once you are happy, run the practice live or self-paced — objective question types auto-mark the moment a student submits. Students join free with a class code, and afterwards you get per-session reports on completion, average score and accuracy, a per-student breakdown, and CSV export. There is no gradebook; ClassKite focuses on the practice and the marking, not record-keeping.
Sign in to download the template and import your first set — then review every question before you teach.
Frequently asked questions
Is uploading the filled template free?
No. Writing questions by hand and running practices is free on Teacher Basic, but bulk-importing the completed spreadsheet is a Teacher Plus and School Plan feature, alongside AI question generation and class analytics.
Does ClassKite run the AI assistant for me?
No. You use your own assistant on the template's built-in prompt, then upload the finished file. ClassKite does not connect to or run the third-party AI on your behalf.
Will the AI read my PDF or write the lesson?
No. The AI drafts questions only. No AI reads your PDF contents or writes lesson plans — you upload a PDF separately to teach from on the smart board with live annotation and follow-me sync.
Related reading: keeping quality high when you generate questions with AI, building a reusable question bank for your subject, and the Question Bank feature page.