How to Use Wayground: A Complete Guide (Formerly Quizizz)

To use Wayground (formerly Quizizz), sign in as a teacher, click Create to build a quiz from the library, from scratch, or with AI, then host it live or assign it as homework. Students join with a code, and you get reports afterward. That’s the whole loop, and it takes about five minutes the first time.

This guide walks through everything you can do with it, from making your first quiz to reading the data at the end.

What you can do with Wayground

At its core, Wayground lets you build a quiz or lesson, run it as a game, and see how students did. Around that, it adds AI generation, a large ready-made library, many question types, several game modes, homework, and detailed reports. We’ll take them in the order you’d actually use them.

Getting started

You need a free teacher account to create and host. Once you sign in, you land on your dashboard, which is home base for everything. If you have trouble getting in, our login help page covers the fixes, and if you’re brand new to the platform, start with what is Wayground.

From the dashboard, the main button is Create. It gives you three ways to make a quiz.

How to create a quiz: three ways

1. From the library. Wayground has a huge catalog of ready-made quizzes. Search by subject, grade, or standard, and there’s a good chance someone has already built what you need. This is the fastest path, so it’s worth checking before you build anything.

2. From scratch. Add your questions one by one, choose from 20+ question types, drop in images, audio, or video, and set timers and scoring. This gives you the most control.

3. With AI. Upload or paste your content and let Wayground generate the questions for you. More on that next.

Whichever way you go, you finish by publishing, then you can host or assign it. The full step-by-step is in our how to create a quiz guide.

Using AI to build quizzes

The AI generator is one of the biggest time-savers. You can create a quiz from several sources: a document (PDF, PowerPoint, Word, or an image), a prompt or pasted text, a website link, a YouTube video, or, for US math and science, a curriculum. It reads the content, writes the questions, and hands them to you to edit before publishing.

It can also rephrase existing questions for variety, generate step-by-step answer explanations, and build easy, medium, and hard versions of the same quiz for differentiation. Our AI quiz generator guide goes deeper on each source.

Question types and content

Wayground supports more than 20 question types, well beyond basic multiple-choice. You’ll find true/false, checkboxes, fill-in-the-blank, drag and drop, categorization, and open-ended responses, among others. That range is what lets you write questions that make students apply knowledge rather than just recall it.

Beyond quizzes, you can build reading passages and comprehension lessons, add interactive video with questions inside the clip, and use flashcards for review. It’s more than a quiz maker at this point.

Game modes

When you run a quiz, you choose a mode that sets the feel of the session. The main ones include Live and Classic for real-time play, Student-Paced and Teacher-Led for controlling the speed, Test Mode for formal assessment, Paper Mode for playing without a device each, and Mastery Peak, where students climb toward an accuracy goal you set. Each mode suits a different moment. Our game modes guide breaks down when to use which.

Live sessions vs homework

Every quiz can run two ways. A live session plays in real time with the whole class, and you watch scores update on a live dashboard. Homework assigns the quiz with a deadline so students finish on their own time. Same quiz, two uses, depending on whether you want a live activity or independent practice. The hosting steps are in host a game, and the homework setup is in our homework mode guide.

Reports and analytics

This is where the work pays off. After any session, Wayground gives class-level and per-student reports, so you can see exactly which questions tripped people up. Paid features go further with AI report summaries, growth graphs that track a student over time, and standards-aligned reports that show which skills are mastered and where the gaps are. For data-driven teaching, this is the part that matters most.

Integrations

Wayground connects to Google Classroom, Canvas, and Schoology, which handles rosters and assignments for you. You can share any quiz by link, join code, or straight through your LMS, so it fits into whatever setup your school already uses. Students joining a shared game just need the code, as covered in our how to join guide.

Accessibility and accommodations

Wayground includes accommodations like language translation, read-aloud, and a dyslexia-friendly font, available across quizzes, slides, and video. Turning these on before a session helps more students take part on equal footing.

Frequently asked questions