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" route to an AI question bank you have checked yourself.
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. On either AI route, the AI drafts questions only. It doesn't read your PDF, write lesson plans or mark anything. You stay the editor.
The workflow, step by step
- Download the Question Bank template from ClassKite. It comes with an instructions sheet and a ready-made prompt written for 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 and jumbled sentence, with maths written as LaTeX and images attached later.
- Read every row. The assistant's output is a first draft: fix wording, 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 advice on naming and organising rows so they stay reusable year after year, see the guide to building a reusable question bank for your subject.
Reviewing what the AI gives you
An outside assistant is fast and sometimes wrong. Check that each answer marked correct really is, that the wrong options are plausible and that maths renders properly. Then run the practice live or self-paced; every question marks itself the moment a student submits. Students join free with a join code. Afterwards, reports (Teacher Plus and School plans) show each session's completion, average score, First try and Solved, a row per student and CSV export, and the Gradebook adds each practice into an overall grade for every student.
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?
It depends on your plan. Writing questions by hand and running practices is free on Teacher Basic. Unlimited bulk import is part of Teacher Plus and the School plan, along with AI question generation and class analytics. Teacher Basic may include some free imports: compare the plans to see what each one currently includes.
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, and no AI in ClassKite reads your PDF or writes lesson plans. PDFs are uploaded separately, to teach from on the Smart Board with live annotation and follow-me paging.
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.