Can I turn a PowerPoint into a quiz for nursing school?
Yes. Upload the .ppt, .pptx or .ppsx file to Sturse and it writes multiple choice and select-all-that-apply questions from that deck, with a rationale for every answer choice.
Guide
Turn your lecture slides into practice questions
Upload the PowerPoint, PDF or notes your professor gave you, and Sturse writes exam-style practice questions from that file only, with a rationale for every answer choice. You can also write questions yourself or paste slides into a chatbot; here is how all three compare, and how the Sturse route works step by step.
Updated October 13, 2026
Sixty slides and one night
It is 9pm. The exam is at 8am. The deck is 60 slides of bullet points, a few diagrams, and one table your professor said to “know cold”. Rereading it feels productive, but recognizing a slide is not the same as answering a question about it.
Nursing exams ask you to use the content: which finding to report first, which client to see first, which statements show the teaching worked. The way to get ready for that is to answer questions in that format, written from that content. The question is how to get those questions tonight.
Three honest ways to turn slides into questions
- Write them yourself. Free, and writing a question forces you to decide what matters on each slide. The cost is time. Good distractors and select-all-that-apply options for 60 slides take hours, and you already know the answers to questions you wrote.
- Paste the slides into a general chatbot. Fast and flexible. The catch is that a general model can fill gaps with facts from outside your lecture, so an answer can disagree with what your professor taught. You also write the prompt each time, ask for rationales, and check each one. More on that in ChatGPT for nursing school.
- Use a tool built for it. Sturse takes the file as it is, keeps every question inside it, and explains every answer choice. The trade-off is that it only works from what you upload, so a thin deck makes a thin quiz.
| Write your own | General chatbot | Sturse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stays inside your lecture | Yes | Not guaranteed | Yes |
| Rationale for every choice | If you write one | If you ask | Yes, citing your document |
| Select-all-that-apply | If you write them | If you ask | Yes, you set the count |
| Reads text in images and diagrams | You read them | Varies | Yes |
How it works in Sturse, step by step
- Upload the file. PDF, PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx, .ppsx), Word (.doc, .docx), .rtf, .odt, .odp or plain text, up to 50 MB. A vision pass reads the text inside images, screenshots, charts and diagrams, so an image-heavy deck still works.
- Shape the quiz. Pick 10, 15, 20 or 25 questions, choose how many are select-all-that-apply, and type a topic focus if you only want part of the lecture, such as the cardiac drugs or the lab values.
- Take it. Multiple choice and select-all-that-apply in NCLEX style, written from your upload, not a question bank.
- Read every rationale. Each answer choice, right or wrong, gets its own explanation citing your document, plus the nursing concept behind the question and a test-taking tip. The rationale points back to the part of the lecture it came from, and the lecture itself stays viewable in the app while you study.
- Open the study guide and flashcards. The same upload gives you a study guide (overview, key points, nursing concepts & clinical implications, core definitions, NCLEX-style focus areas) and flashcards in the style you choose. The built-in tutor answers questions from that document only.
- Keep going. You get 100 fresh questions per lecture before anything repeats, unanswered ones first. Every score is kept. Retake a quiz or replay just the questions you missed. Flag a bad question and it is removed for good.
- Share it with your study group. Send the link and classmates take the same questions with the same rationales, without uploading anything or making an account. Scores stay private.
“Currently in pathophysiology and the tests were very similar to my school’s exams, so once I saw that I was like okay imma use this app from now on.”
What makes a good deck for this
Sturse can only use what is in the file, so the file matters more than anything you set on the quiz screen.
- Text-based slides work best. Bullets, tables and typed explanations give the most material per page, and the most material means the most varied questions.
- Scanned or image-only decks still work. The vision pass reads text inside images, so a photographed handout or a deck of screenshots is usable. Clear, upright pages read better than blurry ones.
- Lecture notes in Word are fine. So are .rtf, .odt and plain text. If your own typed notes are fuller than the slides, upload those.
- One lecture per upload keeps quizzes focused. Use the topic focus to narrow further when an exam covers only part of it.
- A deck of titles makes a thin quiz. If the slides are mostly headings and the real content was spoken in class, add your notes as a separate upload.
Where it stops
Sturse does not write questions when no lecture is uploaded, and it does not make Next Gen NCLEX item types such as case studies, drag-and-drop or hotspots. It also does not second-guess your professor. Your slides are the source of truth, because they are what your exam is written from.
The first lecture is free, quiz and study guide included, no card needed, and the free plan never expires. Pro covers every lecture after that; the plans are on the pricing page, and common questions are on the FAQ.
Questions students ask
Does it work if my slides are mostly images or scans?
Yes. A vision pass reads the text inside images, screenshots, charts and diagrams, so image-heavy and scanned decks still work. Clearer pages read better.
Will the questions include things that are not in my slides?
Every question comes from the file you upload, not a question bank, so the quiz sticks to what your lecture covers. Each rationale points back to the part of your lecture it came from, so you can check it against your slides.
Can my study group take the same quiz?
Yes. Share the quiz by link and classmates take the same questions and rationales without uploading anything or making an account. Each person’s score stays private.
Is it free?
Your first lecture is free, quiz and study guide included, with no card needed. The free plan never expires.
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