What Happened to Quizizz? The Wayground Rebrand Explained

Quizizz was rebranded as Wayground. As of July 2026, quizizz.com/pricing redirects to wayground.com/pricing and the product is presented as "Wayground, formerly Quizizz". Existing accounts, libraries and saved activities carried over to the new brand, so nothing was deleted. If you are searching for Quizizz today, the tool you are actually evaluating is Wayground.

That is the whole answer, but the rebrand surfaced a few things worth knowing if you are choosing an assessment tool this semester, because most comparison articles you will find still describe the product under the old name and the old feature set.

What actually changed

The brand and the domain changed. The core model did not. Wayground is still a delivery platform: you build or import a set of questions, students play or complete it, and the platform records the results. The gamified elements teachers picked Quizizz for, including the power-ups, redemption questions and retakes, are still part of the product.

The practical effect of the rename is mostly on searching and on documentation. Support articles now live under wayground.com, and older bookmarks, district procurement documents and PD materials referencing Quizizz still resolve but display the new brand. If your school has Quizizz in a written technology plan, the name is now stale even though the license is not.

The file upload limits that catch teachers out

Wayground's documentation is unusually specific about generating questions from a document you upload, and the specifics matter more than the rebrand does. Its own help center states you can upload PDF, PPTX, DOC, DOCX, PNG or JPG files, one file at a time, and that only the first 16,000 characters of the file are processed.

Sixteen thousand characters is roughly 2,500 to 3,000 words. A dense textbook chapter routinely runs three to five times that. So when you upload a full chapter and the generated questions all seem to come from the opening pages, that is the cap doing exactly what it says it will do. The problem is that the omission is invisible: you get a plausible looking quiz with no warning that two thirds of the reading was never read.

To be fair to them, publishing that number at all puts Wayground ahead of most of the field. Several competitors say "upload any file" and never document a limit, which does not mean there is not one. When we compared nine tools for our best AI quiz generator comparison, only four publicly documented document upload at all, and Wayground was the only one that named a character cap.

What Wayground costs in 2026

Wayground publishes a free Basic plan at $0, which stores 20 assessments, lessons and flashcard sets with a 14 day expiry. The paid Individual plan is $18 per month, billed annually at $216, with a 7 day free trial. School and university pricing is quote based through their sales team.

Two details are easy to miss in the tier table. LMS integration is not included on the free plan at all and is listed as limited on Individual, with full integration reserved for School and District licenses. Session participant limits also apply: 100 participants per session on Basic and Individual, rising to 1,000 on School plans. If you are running a lecture hall rather than a classroom, that ceiling arrives sooner than the price does.

Should you switch after the rebrand?

A rename on its own is not a reason to move. The honest question is whether the product was ever solving your actual bottleneck. Wayground is very good at delivering a quiz to a room of students and recording what happened. It is a delivery platform with a generator attached, and the generator carries the caps above.

If your bottleneck is delivery and engagement, stay. If your bottleneck is the hour you spend writing forty questions from this week's reading before you can deliver anything, the generator is the part you should be evaluating, and a 16,000 character ceiling is a real constraint on it. That is the gap our Quizizz alternative page covers in detail, including a feature by feature table.

Plenty of teachers run both, which is the sensible answer more often than switching. Generate the question set from the full chapter somewhere that reads the full chapter, then paste or import it into Wayground for the live round. You keep the engagement and lose the typing.

Frequently asked questions

Is Quizizz shutting down?

No. Quizizz was renamed to Wayground, not discontinued. The product continues to operate, accounts carried over, and quizizz.com redirects to the new domain. Nothing you built was deleted as part of the rebrand.

Do I need a new account for Wayground?

No. Existing Quizizz logins carry over to Wayground. Your saved activities, classes and library move with the account, so there is no migration step for individual teachers.

Why did Quizizz change its name?

The company repositioned the product beyond the quiz format it was named for, since it now covers lessons, flashcards and broader classroom activities. A name built around one activity type constrains a product that has grown past it. That is the usual reason for this kind of rename.

Can Wayground read a whole textbook chapter?

Not in one pass. Its documentation caps processing at the first 16,000 characters of an uploaded file, roughly 2,500 to 3,000 words. Longer chapters need to be split into sections and uploaded separately, or generated somewhere without that cap.

Where this leaves your planning

Update the name in any written material your school keeps, check whether your plan actually includes the LMS integration you assumed it did, and test the upload cap against the longest document you realistically use before you commit a semester of assessments to it. If you also need those same source documents turned into teaching slides rather than questions, you can turn the reports and PDFs into a presentation from the same files instead of rebuilding the deck by hand.

Whichever tool you land on, the deciding feature is rarely the one on the pricing page. It is how much of your material the thing will actually read. Start there and the comparison gets a lot shorter. You can test that in about a minute with the PDF to quiz tool using the longest chapter you have.