Group Study
Host or join real-time group quiz sessions to study with friends and classmates
Group Study turns solo studying into a social, competitive experience. Host a quiz session from your notes, a PDF, or any topic, invite friends with a 6-character code, and compete in real time with timed questions, a live leaderboard, and a final podium.
What Is Group Study?
Group Study is a multiplayer quiz feature built into Notesmakr. One person hosts a session, and everyone else joins to answer the same questions at the same time on their own devices.
The host picks the content (a study note, a PDF, or pasted text or a topic) and the AI generates a quiz from it when the host starts the game. Everyone answers against a countdown timer. At the end, a podium shows the top 3 finishers and everyone sees the full standings.
Finding Group Study
Group Study is the 4th of the 5 tabs (Home, Study, Flashcards, Group Study, Settings). On a phone it sits in the bottom bar. On iPad it is an icon in the sidebar, and its label shows when the sidebar is expanded.
The Group Study tab has:
- Host a Session — "Create a quiz from your notes, a PDF, or any topic"
- Join a Session — "Enter a code to join a live quiz session"
- Recent Sessions — your sessions, split into Active and Past tabs
How It Works
The host picks content, sets the number of questions, time per question and difficulty, and taps Create Session. A 6-character join code is generated and the host lands in the lobby.
Friends join with the code or a shared link, from the app or from a web browser.
In the lobby, every player taps Ready. When at least two people are connected and all players are ready, the host can tap Start Game.
The quiz is generated, a 3-2-1 countdown plays, and questions appear one at a time with a timer bar.
After the final question, everyone sees a podium with the top 3, their own rank and score, and the full standings.
Key Features
- Real-time multiplayer — everyone plays at the same time on their own device
- AI-generated quizzes — from your notes, a PDF, pasted text, or a plain topic
- 6-character join codes — share the code, a link, or a QR code
- Countdown timer — 10 to 60 seconds per question, in 5-second steps
- Live leaderboard — a side strip that updates as answers come in
- Review between questions — optional result card with the correct answer, explanation and leaderboard
- Podium results — top 3 on a podium, plus full standings you can share
- Session history — your active and past sessions in one list
Who Can Host and Who Can Join?
- Hosting is part of a paid plan. If you're on the free plan, tapping Create Session takes you to the upgrade screen.
- Joining is free. You don't need a subscription, only the code.
What's Covered
- Hosting a Session — create a session, choose content, configure settings
- Joining a Session — join with a code or link
- The Lobby — share the code, ready up and start the game
- During the Game — answer questions, timer, scoring, leaderboard
- Results & Leaderboard — podium, stats, sharing
- Web Experience — play from a browser without the app
Next Steps
Ready to get started? Learn how to host your first session or join one.