AI for Teachers: Create Material and Make Learning Stick

Turn the sources you trust into quizzes, challenges, and study material in minutes, then help students actually retain what they learn, instead of writing everything from scratch.

Creating good teaching material is slow. Writing quizzes for every reading, building practice questions for each lecture, and pulling together study resources can take hours you don’t have. And once students have the material, generic AI makes it easy for them to skip the hard parts of learning and outsource their thinking.

Recall gives teachers a different workflow. Save the lectures, PDFs, articles, and videos you trust into a class knowledge base, and Recall turns them into summaries, practice questions, and shareable challenges in minutes, so you spend less time making material and more time teaching. Because everything lives in one place and compounds over time, the material you build for one class becomes a resource you reuse and grow, term after term, while active recall and spaced repetition help students remember what they learn.

Why use Recall for teaching

AI should elevate learning, not replace it

The strongest use of AI in education is not generating answers for students. It is helping teachers create better learning loops: trusted sources, guided research, practice questions, challenges, review, and retention.

Start from sources you trust: build a class knowledge base from the lectures, PDFs, videos, and readings you actually want students to learn from, instead of the open internet.
Guide research without replacing thinking: students ask questions across assigned material, compare sources, and form their own understanding, with AI inside the learning process.
Generate practice questions in minutes: turn any reading, lecture, or video into quizzes with Quiz 2.0, without writing every question by hand.
Share challenges without friction: send Recall Shared Challenges to students with a link, no signup required, for warmups, homework checks, and revision.
Help students actually retain it: active recall and spaced repetition resurface questions when they matter most, so students remember what they learn instead of consuming it once.

What you’ll build

A trusted source library for a class, topic, module, or reading list
A workflow for helping students research from material you trust
AI-generated quizzes based on lectures, PDFs, videos, articles, or notes
Recall Shared Challenges you can share with students without requiring them to sign up
A review loop that supports active recall and spaced repetition
A way to use AI in class without replacing student thinking

The science: why this helps students retain what they learn

Before diving into the workflow, here’s why these techniques matter for your students.

The forgetting curve

Without review, students forget most of what they learn within 24 hours. This is the forgetting curve: information decays rapidly unless actively retrieved. Passive rereading and rewatching lectures can feel productive, but they rarely build durable memory.

Active recall

Active recall means pulling information from memory instead of recognizing it on the page. When students test themselves rather than reread their notes, they strengthen the neural pathways that let them retrieve that knowledge later. This is why self-testing consistently outperforms rereading in learning research.

Spaced repetition

Spaced repetition schedules review at increasing intervals, bringing material back right before students are likely to forget it. Instead of cramming the night before a test, weak material comes back more often and strong material less often. Over time, knowledge moves from short-term to long-term memory.

Quiz 2.0, Recall Review, Challenges, and Streaks

Recall combines these techniques into a practical system you can use with your students:

Quiz 2.0 generates questions from any content (lectures, PDFs, videos, readings, or notes) so you can create practice material without writing every question by hand.
Recall Review applies spaced repetition automatically: questions students get wrong come back more often, questions they nail come back less often.
Recall Shared Challenges let you share quizzes with students (no account required) for warmups, homework checks, or revision sessions, with a leaderboard to compare scores.
Streaks help students build a daily or weekly habit, so review becomes automatic instead of something they have to remember to do.

Watch and follow along

Expand each part below for the step-by-step walkthrough of Quiz 2.0, Recall Review, Challenges, and streaks. Click the timestamp on any part to jump straight to that moment in the video.

Part 1The forgetting curve

The video starts with the core problem: we consume an enormous amount of content, but we remember very little of it. The forgetting curve means that without review, most of what students learn today starts disappearing within 24 hours.

Recall is built to offset that forgetting curve. Save your course material, and Recall can create personalized quizzes that resurface at the right time so the material actually sticks.

Part 2Recall recap

Recall is an AI-powered knowledge base where you can save content from the web, upload PDFs, bulk import bookmarks, or take your own notes. You can paste a URL, use the mobile share sheet, or save directly from the browser extension.

Once content is saved, you can skim the summary, chat with the content, save useful answers to your notebook, jump to timestamps in videos, and see extracted connections.

Part 3Quiz 2.0

When you save any content into Recall, or even when you just take your own notes, you can open the Quiz tab and generate questions. Quiz 2.0 gives you more control over the learning experience:

Choose the number of questions
Generate multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, flashcards, true/false, short answer, or ordering questions
Pick easy, medium, hard, or mixed difficulty
Include explanations for context after answering
Include hints when students get stuck
Add questions to Recall Review so they become part of a spaced repetition schedule

You can also generate more questions, create your own questions, filter by question type or difficulty, search questions, bulk review or delete, and edit questions to make them your own.

Part 4Recall Shared Challenge

Recall Shared Challenge lets you share a quiz with anyone. Students don't need a Recall account to take it. This is useful for pre-class reading checks, revision before exams, group study, or class warmups.

Recall Shared Challenges make learning more competitive and social. You can create a Recall Shared Challenge from course material, share it, and see how students compare on the leaderboard.

Part 5Recall Review

Recall Review is the spaced repetition layer. It uses two learning techniques, active recall and spaced repetition, to build a personalized review schedule.

If students keep getting something wrong, they'll see it more often. If they keep getting it right, they'll see it less often. Questions added to Recall Review are shuffled into their schedule, and the intervals adapt based on how well they answer.

Students can also filter review questions by due date, type, difficulty, and tag, so they can review one course or topic at a time.

Part 6Streaks and settings

Recall also helps students build the habit. They can track streaks, switch from daily to weekly streaks if that fits their schedule better, enable email and push notifications, and turn on timed questions for a bit of pressure while answering.

They can also see their all-time stats and look back historically to understand their overall learning progress.

Part 7Take the Recall Shared Challenges

The video ends by inviting viewers to try the live challenges in the video description. It's a simple way to test how much they paid attention and how much they actually learned.

You can use the same idea for your class: make a challenge from a lecture or reading and share it with students.

The teaching workflow, step by step

Build your source library, guide research, generate questions, share challenges, and support retention. Expand any step to see what it looks like.

Part 1Build a trusted source library

Start by saving the material you actually want students to learn from: lecture recordings, PDFs, articles, textbook chapters, YouTube explainers, podcasts, or your own notes.

Save course material: upload PDFs, paste links, or capture articles and videos with the browser extension as you build your reading list.
Organize by class or module: tag sources by course, topic, or week so students can find the right material quickly.
Add your own notes: include your lecture notes and guidance alongside the sources, so your thinking is part of the knowledge base too.

This solves one of the biggest problems with AI for research: students often ask generic AI tools and get answers from unknown sources. In Recall, the workflow starts from the sources you trust.

Example: You save twelve readings, three lecture recordings, and your own weekly notes for a module, all tagged History 101 / Week 4, so students have one trusted library to work from.

Part 2Guide research without replacing thinking

Students can use global chat (click the AI icon in the left panel) to ask questions across assigned material, but the point is to help them understand the sources, not bypass them.

Good prompts for students:

What are the key arguments in this reading, and where does the author provide evidence?

What are three questions I should be able to answer after reading this chapter?

Where do these two sources agree and disagree?

This keeps AI inside the learning process: students still engage with the material, compare sources, and form their own understanding.

Example: A student asks across two assigned articles where the authors disagree on climate policy, and gets an answer grounded in those readings with citations they can verify.

Part 3Generate practice questions

Use Quiz 2.0 to turn any reading, lecture, video, or set of notes into practice questions in minutes.

Open the source (or a note) and go to the Quiz tab.
Click Generate Questions to open the generate modal. Pick the question types depending on your learning goal:
- Multiple choice for quick checks
- Short answer for explanation
- Ordering for timelines and processes
- Matching for terms and definitions
- Flashcards for core concepts
Set number, difficulty, and explanations: include explanations when you want students to understand the reasoning behind each answer.
Refine the set: edit any AI-generated question to sharpen it, or click Create to add your own questions by hand.

Example: From a 30-page reading you generate ten mixed questions with explanations, ready to share as a pre-class check in five minutes.

Part 4Share Recall Shared Challenges

Turn a quiz into a Recall Shared Challenge when you want students to test themselves or compete in a low-stakes way. Students can take a Recall Shared Challenge without signing up, so it works as a lightweight teaching resource.

Open a card that already has questions generated, and go to the Quiz tab.
Click Share Challenge to generate a shareable link. (You can also click Challenge Someone on the results screen after taking the quiz yourself.)
Share the link with your class, in your LMS, a class chat, or by email. No Recall account is required to take it.
Track results: students enter a display name, can review the study material first, take the quiz, and appear on a leaderboard ranked by score, with time as the tiebreaker.

This works well for:

Pre-class reading checks
Revision before exams
Group study sessions
Class warmups
Homework follow-up

Level the playing field

Share the study material link first so students can review the source before they attempt the challenge. This keeps the focus on learning, not just scoring.

Example: You share a challenge link in the class chat before a seminar; students take it on their phones without creating an account, and you see who is ready to discuss the reading.

Part 5Use active recall and spaced repetition

Active recall asks students to retrieve information from memory. Spaced repetition schedules that retrieval over time. This combination is much stronger than rereading notes or rewatching lectures.

With Recall Review, questions can come back when they are most useful. Students see weak areas more often and strong areas less often, which helps them spend review time where it matters.

Example: After a midterm, students add weak topics to Recall Review and get a short daily quiz that resurfaces the concepts they missed until they stick.

How your class materials become part of your second brain

For a teacher, the most valuable asset is the curated material you’ve built over semesters, and the easiest thing to lose is scattered across folders and platforms. In Recall, every lecture, reading, video, and note you save joins one connected library: tagged, searchable, and ready to quiz from. Your course material compounds: each semester’s sources and questions make the next one easier to run. See how it all fits together in the AI Second Brain guide.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best AI for teachers?

The best AI for teachers is one that helps you create better learning loops, not shortcuts for students. Recall lets teachers curate trusted sources into a class knowledge base, generate practice questions from that material, share Recall Shared Challenges without requiring signup, and support active recall and spaced repetition so students retain what they learn instead of consuming it once.

Can students take a Recall Shared Challenge without signing up?

Yes. Recall Shared Challenges can be shared with a link, and students do not need a Recall account to take them. This makes Recall a lightweight teaching resource for pre-class reading checks, revision before exams, group study, class warmups, and homework follow-up.

How is Recall different from ChatGPT in the classroom?

ChatGPT answers from the open internet and makes it easy for students to skip the hard parts of learning. Recall starts from the sources you trust: lectures, PDFs, videos, and readings you save into a class knowledge base. Students chat and quiz within that material, so AI supports understanding and retention instead of replacing it.

Can I generate quizzes from my course material?

Yes. With Quiz 2.0 in Recall you can generate practice questions from a reading, lecture, video, PDF, or set of notes. Choose question types like multiple choice, short answer, ordering, matching, or flashcards, include explanations, and turn any quiz into a Recall Shared Challenge to share with your class.

Can Recall help students research from trusted sources?

Yes. Teachers can build a trusted source library in Recall and guide students to ask questions across assigned material instead of generic AI tools. Students engage with the sources you chose, compare them, and form their own understanding, with chat grounded in your class knowledge base first.

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