How to Create Questions From Teaching Notes
Use teaching notes as a map of what was covered, then turn the main ideas into questions that stand on their own. Expand shorthand and restore any information that was supplied verbally in class. Students should not have to guess what a note fragment means.
Notes contain reminders rather than complete prompts
“Pressure = force/area” can become a definition question, a calculation or a reasoning task about changing area. The choice depends on the learning you want to check, not simply on the easiest wording to generate from the line.
Convert the notes into answerable questions
Read through the notes and identify claims, procedures, comparisons and worked examples.
Expand abbreviations and supply missing conditions, values or units before drafting a question.
Write at least one application question for an important idea, not only questions that copy definitions.
Check each answer against the notes and flag anything that depends on material the class has not covered.
Put it into practice
Example: expanding a short note
From “pressure decreases when area increases,” ask: “The same force acts on two surfaces. Which experiences less pressure, and why?” State that the force is unchanged. Without that condition, the question may have more than one reasonable interpretation.
Before you share
- Remove private student information from notes before using them as source material.
- Correct inaccurate notes before generating questions; a polished draft can preserve a source error.
How EduVetta helps
EduVetta can create question papers from uploaded documents or a topic with extra instructions. Prepare readable notes, specify the intended question types and review the generated wording, answers and marks before sharing the paper.