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Make questions from your own material
Ten questions and an answer key, made only from the document you upload, with a page reference for every answer. Fifteen minutes. It will not invent a standard or a fact, because it only knows what you gave it.
The tool
NotebookLM
Give it your own files and it only answers from those, with page references. It can turn them into a spoken overview too. The free plan is enough for this.
Upload your material
follow these in the app
Steps, not a prompt: open NotebookLM, click New notebook, then Add source, and give it your unit document (a PDF, a Google Doc, or pasted text). Wait for the summary on the left to appear.
What good looks like
A summary of your document appears. If it summarised something you did not upload, you added the wrong file.
Ask for the questions
copy, paste into NotebookLM, change the parts in [brackets]
Using only the document I uploaded, write ten questions for a [grade 9] class: four recall, four understanding, two that need an opinion with a reason. Next to each answer, put the page or section it comes from.
What good looks like
Ten questions that clearly come from your document, each with a reference you can check.
Get the key and a harder set
copy, paste into NotebookLM, change the parts in [brackets]
Now give me the answer key with the page reference for each, and three more questions that need students to combine two ideas from different sections.
What good looks like
Every answer has a reference. Anything without one did not come from your material; drop it.
Watch out
Check your district's rule before uploading a paid curriculum. Many say no. Your own notes and handouts are yours to upload.
Now with your own thing. Same steps. The one on the fridge counts.