You know the feeling. It's Sunday evening, you've got a summative due Monday, and you're staring at a blank document trying to write criterion-tagged questions from scratch. There's no MYP question bank to pull from. No shYou know the feeling. It's Sunday evening, you've got a summative due Monday, and you're staring at a blank document trying to write criterion-tagged questions from scratch. There's no MYP question bank to pull from. No shortcut. Just you, the subject guide, and a growing sense that this shouldn't take as long as it does.
We built the Koncepts MYP Assessment Generator tools because we've watched too many teachers spend their weekends doing work that should take minutes, not hours. The Question Generator and Rubric Maker work together to get you from "blank page" to "ready-to-print assessment" faster than you thought possible.
Here's exactly how they work.
Why We Built This
Let's be honest about the problem. No standalone MYP question bank exists. AssessPrep lives inside ManageBac, and if your school doesn't use ManageBac, you're out of luck. Most MYP teachers create 70–90% of their assessment materials from scratch, every single unit, every single year.
Writing one task-specific rubric takes 45–60 minutes when you're doing it properly. And the IB requires task-specific clarifications for every summative assessment. You can't just reuse generic descriptors. Every task needs its own language.
That's why the Koncepts MYP Rubric Generator is built around Criteria A–D and achievement levels 1–8 rather than treating an IB rubric like a generic grading table.
We wanted to solve this in a way that helps the whole community. Every question you accept feeds a growing shared question bank. The more teachers use it, the better it gets for everyone.
The Question Generator: How It Works
Step 1: Set Your Parameters
When you land on the tool, your subject and year level are already pre-filled from your profile. No setup needed.
You enter your topic (e.g., "Ratios and Proportional Relationships" or "Chemical Reactions"), then select the criteria you want to assess: A, B, C, D, or any combination.
You can optionally pick command terms, or leave that to the AI. When you don't select command terms manually, the tool auto-selects them using the official IB command term mappings for your subject and level. It knows which terms belong at which achievement level.
Step 2: Choose Your Settings
Pick your achievement levels: 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, or Mixed (a spread across all bands). Choose question types: MCQ, Short Answer, Extended Response, or Data Processing. Set how many questions you want, from 1 to 20.
Step 3: Upload Source Content (Optional)
This is where it gets useful. You can upload a PDF or PPT file, like your textbook chapter or your class slides, and the questions will be generated directly from your materials. The content stays relevant to what you've actually taught, not some generic topic overview.
Step 4: Generate
Hit Generate (or press Cmd+Enter) and questions stream in one card at a time.
Each card shows you everything you need:
- Question stem
- Criterion tag
- Command term
- Achievement level
- Marks
- Answer and marking notes
It looks something like this: Q1 [Crit A][MCQ][Level 1-2][1 mark]
Step 5: Keep, Edit, or Regenerate
You've got three actions per card:
- Keep (green border appears) — the question is good to go
- Edit — make inline changes to the question, answer, or tags
- New — regenerate just that one question without touching the others
A running counter at the top shows your progress: "5 kept · 1 edited · 1 replaced". You always know where you stand.
Keyboard shortcuts make this fast: K to keep, E to edit, N to regenerate.
Test Paper Mode
Once you've kept 3 or more questions, Test Paper Mode unlocks.
Add a title, instructions, and time limit. Then export two PDFs:
- Student Version — questions with appropriate answer space, clean formatting, no answers visible
- Teacher Version — questions plus answers, marking notes, and criterion tags for each question
That's your assessment, ready to print or upload to your LMS.
The Rubric Maker: How It Works
Starting Point
You can arrive at the Rubric Maker directly from the menu, or through the connected workflow from the Question Generator (more on that below). If you come from the Question Generator, your task and criteria are already pre-filled.
Step 1: Describe Your Task
Enter your assessment task description. Select the criteria you're assessing. Optionally, emphasise specific strands within each criterion that you want the rubric to focus on.
Step 2: Generate
Hit Generate (or Cmd+Enter) and full criterion tables stream in, one per criterion.
Each table has columns for strands and rows for achievement bands (1–2 through 7–8). Every cell contains AI-rewritten descriptors specific to your task. Not generic IB language copied from the subject guide. Actual task-specific clarifications that describe what achievement looks like for this particular assessment.
Step 3: Student Version Toggle
Here's something teachers love. Toggle to the Student Version, and the rubric transforms:
- Language becomes simpler and more direct
- Written in "you" voice ("You explain two connections..." instead of "The student explains connections...")
- Achievement bands are renamed to be less intimidating: Getting Started, On Track, Strong, Exceptional
This version is designed to hand to students at the start of the task. It tells them exactly what to aim for at each level, in language they actually understand.
Step 4: Export
Export options:
- PDF (Teacher Version)
- PDF (Student Version)
- PDF (Both versions together)
- Word document (for further editing)
The Connected Workflow
This is where the two tools become more than the sum of their parts.
Generate your questions in the Question Generator. Keep the ones you want. Then click "Generate Rubric" and everything carries over: your criteria, your topic, your questions. The Rubric Maker already knows what you're assessing and writes descriptors that match.
The full chain looks like this:
Questions → Test Paper → Rubric → Export as one bundle
You can download a single PDF containing the test, the answer key, and the rubric. One file, ready to go.
Quick Tips for Getting the Most Out of It
Upload your actual teaching materials. The questions are significantly more relevant when generated from your textbook chapter or slides rather than a generic topic. Students will recognise the context.
Use the strand filter in the Rubric Maker. If you're only assessing strands i and ii of Criterion C, say so. The rubric will focus there instead of spreading across all strands equally.
Share the Student Version at the start. Don't wait until after the assessment to show students the rubric. The student-friendly version is written specifically to be shared before the task begins. It's a teaching tool, not just a grading tool.
Learn the shortcuts.
K,E, andNfor question cards.Cmd+Enterto generate. They save more time than you'd think when you're reviewing 15–20 questions.
Go Try It
We built this because we're tired of teachers spending Sunday nights rewriting criterion descriptors from a subject guide PDF. Assessment design should be a professional judgment call, not a formatting marathon.
The tools are live now. Generate a set of questions, build a rubric, and see how it feels. If something's off, if the questions miss the mark or the rubric language doesn't quite fit your context, tell us. Every piece of feedback makes these tools sharper for the next teacher who uses them.
Your time is better spent planning great MYP lessons than formatting rubric cells. We hope this helps you get some of that time back. ortcut. Just you, the subject guide, and a growing sense that this shouldn't take as long as it does.
We built the Assessment Generator tools because we've watched too many teachers spend their weekends doing work that should take minutes, not hours. The Question Generator and Rubric Maker work together to get you from "blank page" to "ready-to-print assessment" faster than you thought possible.
Here's exactly how they work.
Why We Built This
Let's be honest about the problem. No standalone MYP question bank exists. AssessPrep lives inside ManageBac, and if your school doesn't use ManageBac, you're out of luck. Most MYP teachers create 70–90% of their assessment materials from scratch, every single unit, every single year.
Writing one task-specific rubric takes 45–60 minutes when you're doing it properly. And the IB requires task-specific clarifications for every summative assessment. You can't just reuse generic descriptors. Every task needs its own language.
We wanted to solve this in a way that helps the whole community. Every question you accept feeds a growing shared question bank. The more teachers use it, the better it gets for everyone.
The Question Generator: How It Works
Step 1: Set Your Parameters
When you land on the tool, your subject and year level are already pre-filled from your profile. No setup needed.
You enter your topic (e.g., "Ratios and Proportional Relationships" or "Chemical Reactions"), then select the criteria you want to assess: A, B, C, D, or any combination.
You can optionally pick command terms, or leave that to the AI. When you don't select command terms manually, the tool auto-selects them using the official IB command term mappings for your subject and level. It knows which terms belong at which achievement level.
Step 2: Choose Your Settings
Pick your achievement levels: 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, or Mixed (a spread across all bands). Choose question types: MCQ, Short Answer, Extended Response, or Data Processing. Set how many questions you want, from 1 to 20.
Step 3: Upload Source Content (Optional)
This is where it gets useful. You can upload a PDF or PPT file — like your textbook chapter or your class slides — and the questions will be generated directly from your materials. The content stays relevant to what you've actually taught, not some generic topic overview.
Step 4: Generate
Hit Generate (or press Cmd+Enter) and questions stream in one card at a time.
Each card shows you everything you need:
- Question stem
- Criterion tag
- Command term
- Achievement level
- Marks
- Answer and marking notes
It looks something like this: Q1 [Crit A][MCQ][Level 1-2][1 mark]
Step 5: Keep, Edit, or Regenerate
You've got three actions per card:
- Keep (green border appears) — the question is good to go
- Edit — make inline changes to the question, answer, or tags
- New — regenerate just that one question without touching the others
A running counter at the top shows your progress: "5 kept · 1 edited · 1 replaced". You always know where you stand.
Keyboard shortcuts make this fast: K to keep, E to edit, N to regenerate.
Test Paper Mode
Once you've kept 3 or more questions, Test Paper Mode unlocks.
Add a title, instructions, and time limit. Then export two PDFs:
- Student Version — questions with appropriate answer space, clean formatting, no answers visible
- Teacher Version — questions plus answers, marking notes, and criterion tags for each question
That's your assessment, ready to print or upload to your LMS.
The Rubric Maker: How It Works
Starting Point
You can arrive at the Rubric Maker directly from the menu, or through the connected workflow from the Question Generator (more on that below). If you come from the Question Generator, your task and criteria are already pre-filled.
Step 1: Describe Your Task
Enter your assessment task description. Select the criteria you're assessing. Optionally, emphasise specific strands within each criterion that you want the rubric to focus on.
Step 2: Generate
Hit Generate (or Cmd+Enter) and full criterion tables stream in, one per criterion.
Each table has columns for strands and rows for achievement bands (1–2 through 7–8). Every cell contains AI-rewritten descriptors specific to your task. Not generic IB language copied from the subject guide. Actual task-specific clarifications that describe what achievement looks like for this particular assessment.
Step 3: Student Version Toggle
Here's something teachers love. Toggle to the Student Version, and the rubric transforms:
- Language becomes simpler and more direct
- Written in "you" voice ("You explain two connections..." instead of "The student explains connections...")
- Achievement bands are renamed to be less intimidating: Getting Started, On Track, Strong, Exceptional
This version is designed to hand to students at the start of the task. It tells them exactly what to aim for at each level, in language they actually understand.
Step 4: Export
Export options:
- PDF (Teacher Version)
- PDF (Student Version)
- PDF (Both versions together)
- Word document (for further editing)
The Connected Workflow
This is where the two tools become more than the sum of their parts.
Generate your questions in the Question Generator. Keep the ones you want. Then click "Generate Rubric" and everything carries over: your criteria, your topic, your questions. The Rubric Maker already knows what you're assessing and writes descriptors that match.
The full chain looks like this:
Questions → Test Paper → Rubric → Export as one bundle
You can download a single PDF containing the test, the answer key, and the rubric. One file, ready to go.
Quick Tips for Getting the Most Out of It
<aside> 💡Upload your actual teaching materials. The questions are significantly more relevant when generated from your textbook chapter or slides rather than a generic topic. Students will recognise the context.
</aside> <aside> 💡Use the strand filter in the Rubric Maker. If you're only assessing strands i and ii of Criterion C, say so. The rubric will focus there instead of spreading across all strands equally.
</aside> <aside> 💡Share the Student Version at the start. Don't wait until after the assessment to show students the rubric. The student-friendly version is written specifically to be shared before the task begins. It's a teaching tool, not just a grading tool.
</aside> <aside> 💡Learn the shortcuts. K, E, and N for question cards. Cmd+Enter to generate. They save more time than you'd think when you're reviewing 15–20 questions.
Go Try It
We built this because we're tired of teachers spending Sunday nights rewriting criterion descriptors from a subject guide PDF. Assessment design should be a professional judgment call, not a formatting marathon.
The tools are live now. Generate a set of questions, build a rubric, and see how it feels. If something's off if the questions miss the mark or the rubric language doesn't quite fit your context tell us. Every piece of feedback makes these tools sharper for the next teacher who uses them.
Your time is better spent planning great lessons than formatting rubric cells. We hope this helps you get some of that time back.
