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How to Create a Bulk-Upload Question Bank for Classplus from a PDF
How to go from a PDF of MCQs to a properly formatted, bulk-import-ready question bank for Classplus — without retyping a single question.
The problem with manual entry
Bulk-importing a question bank into Classplus (or any similar test-platform) means the source file has to match an exact template — the right columns or table structure, options in the right order, the answer marked in the format the importer expects. Typing that out by hand from a PDF, question by question, is slow and genuinely error-prone once you're past even twenty or thirty questions — a mismatched option count or a missing answer silently breaks the import.
The faster path is having something read the PDF, understand which parts are the question stem, which are options, and which is the answer, and lay all of it out in the exact structure the platform expects.
How Test Formater builds the file
Test Formater is built specifically for this: upload a PDF full of objective questions and it produces a bordered-table .docx formatted for bulk import. It handles multiple choice, integer-answer, true/false, fill-in-the-blank and comprehension-passage questions in the same document, and if the source PDF keeps its answer key in a separate file, you can upload that alongside the main question PDF — answers get matched back to the right question by number.
If a question's answer or explanation isn't already written down in the source material, AI fills it in — turned on by default, and it can be switched off if you'd rather those questions come back unanswered so you can review them yourself.
Picking the right layout
Not every platform wants the same table shape. Test Formater supports several — Appx, Classplus, Educrypt, Creator Mind, Teachmania and a few others — each matching a specific platform's expected column layout, so the file you download is ready to import as-is rather than needing manual reformatting afterward.
Pricing is per question found, charged only once extraction actually finishes — so a 15-question worksheet and a 150-question bank aren't billed the same, and you're never charged for a conversion that didn't produce a usable file.