Microsoft Copilot Gets 'Quizzes' Feature To Help Users With History, Math, Science, And Pop Culture

The world is in the middle of what many call the “LLM war,” where tech giants are racing to make large language models the ultimate productivity tools.

In response to the arrival of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft responded with a partnership, and a rivalry with the launch of Copilot. Since then, the company has been especially aggressive, weaving its Copilot AI into almost every corner of its ecosystem, from Word and Excel to Teams and Forms.

Copilot is being marketed as the ultimate time-saver: a tool that reduces hours of work into minutes.

And while many of its headline features of LLMs, like drafting reports, writing emails, generating presentations, generating visuals and audios, and more, grab most of the attention, one of the most practical yet underrated use cases lies in education: quizzes.

Think about how much time teachers spend creating quizzes, worksheets, and tests.

It’s not just about coming up with questions; it’s about balancing difficulty, aligning with curriculum, making them engaging, and ensuring the answers are accurate.

Traditionally, this process can take hours, even days. But with Copilot, an educator can finish the job in just seconds.

For example, simply typing: "Create a 15-question quiz on quadratic equations with an answer key," will have Copilot Quizzes generate a draft quiz ready to review.

Copilot doesn’t just generate multiple choice questions; it can create fill-in-the-blank exercises, vocabulary tests, reading comprehension questions, even scenario-based problems for real-world application.

This functionality is built on Microsoft Forms, which itself is a highly flexible platform.

Teachers can take what Copilot drafts and customize it further, like add images, adjust point values, shuffle questions, or insert branching logic so that students who get one question wrong are guided to easier follow-ups, while those who succeed are challenged with harder ones. That’s adaptive learning built right into a simple tool.

The power of Microsoft’s quiz feature doesn’t end there.

Once quizzes are deployed, Forms provides automatic grading and real-time analytics, showing teachers how well students are performing across each question. Results can also be exported directly to Excel, where deeper analysis can be run, spotting trends or knowledge gaps across the class. For educators working in Teams, the process is even smoother: quizzes can be assigned within Teams, completed by students without leaving the app, and graded instantly.

Teachers can return feedback right there, streamlining the entire workflow.

One clever touch is that quizzes assigned through Teams are stored in “Group forms” rather than personal accounts, meaning they don’t eat into an individual teacher’s form quota. For schools with dozens of classes and hundreds of assessments, this flexibility makes a huge difference.

Of course, as with any AI tool, Copilot isn’t perfect.

Sometimes the questions it generates need refinement, and answer keys should always be double-checked. But instead of replacing educators, Copilot is better viewed as a time-saving assistant, which is the one that handles the heavy lifting of drafting and formatting so teachers can focus on higher-value work: tailoring content, guiding students, and actually teaching.

"While Copilot can help as a test and quiz maker with advanced subjects, curating, reviewing, contextualizing any outputs remains crucial," explained Microsoft in a post on its website.

"Work out any math problems yourself and refine them as needed and double-check any answer keys you request. This applies to every subject we've covered, as AI is not always 100% accurate. Always treat Copilot as a supportive tool in the quiz creation process rather than solely relying on it to construct all your materials."

In the grand scheme of the LLM wars, flashy demos that often dominate the headlines, sometimes the most impactful features are the quiet, practical ones, like helping a teacher cut hours off their prep time.

Microsoft’s quiz feature is a perfect example of how AI, when applied thoughtfully, can solve everyday pain points in education. And if the LLM race is about proving relevance, then giving teachers more time to teach may just be one of Copilot’s smartest moves yet.