Turning Company Manuals into Quizzes for Employee Upskilling

Introduction: Repurposing Corporate Knowledge

Corporate training departments are constantly sitting on a goldmine of content. That’s exactly what Olivia, a learning and development manager at a tech company, realized. Her organization had extensive internal training PDFs—technical manuals, sales protocols, and onboarding guides—but employees weren’t engaging with them.

Key challenges included:

• Employees found static manuals boring and easy to skip through.
• Management had no way to measure knowledge retention or ensure employees were applying what they learned.
• Olivia needed interactive quizzes to make corporate training engaging, but manual question creation from existing PDFs was unmanageable.

She turned to QuizMaker to breathe life into her company’s training content.

Before QuizMaker: Employee Knowledge Gaps

The company’s internal manuals were thorough and well-written, but they weren’t effective tools for upskilling:

• Employees treated the PDFs as tick-the-box reading assignments, often skimming through without truly understanding key points.
• Olivia had no way to identify who was ready for promotion or needed extra training since assessments were absent.

After QuizMaker: Unlocking the Power of Existing Training Material

QuizMaker empowered Olivia to transform boring PDFs into engaging, measurable learning tools in record time.

1. Automating Question Banks from PDFs

Olivia uploaded key sections from the company’s:

• "Technical Sales Protocols" PDF to generate quizzes for sales representatives.
• "Software Application Guides" PDF to test onboarding engineers on product knowledge.
  QuizMaker quickly produced fact-based multiple-choice questions and scenario-based answers, saving Olivia days of manual work.

2. Driving Engagement with Clear Pass/Fail Goals

To motivate employees:

• Olivia introduced a minimum pass rate of 75% for every training quiz.
• Employees earned digital badges for passing, which tied into their performance reviews and promotion criteria.

3. Boosting Productivity with Quiz Analytics

QuizMaker’s analytics provided Olivia with actionable data:

• She identified patterns in most-missed questions and collaborated with department heads to improve training PDFs where employees were commonly confused.
• Managers received detailed insights into individual employees’ results, helping them decide who deserved higher-level training.

Results: A Company Unified by Knowledge

QuizMaker transformed Olivia’s team’s approach to training:

• Employee quiz completion rates increased by 60%.
• Gaps in product knowledge decreased by 25% as confusion points were addressed in real time.
• The company gained a scalable training solution to onboard 50+ new employees per quarter without adding extra workload for trainers.

Want to make corporate training more engaging and measurable? Let QuizMaker help you repurpose your PDFs into impactful quizzes today.