BQSuite Help Center

Create an account

1. Each user needs their own account with a unique email address. If your child does not have an email address, you can create a free Google Gmail account and choose the “For my child” option.
2. Register for an account using that email address.
3. Log in to your new account.
4. After logging in, purchase either a monthly subscription or full quiz season access from the Subscribe page.

Subscriptions

Monthly subscription

If you purchased a monthly subscription and still see the Subscribe page when you log in, close the app completely and/or log out, then log in again. It can take a few minutes for the purchase to activate automatically.

Quiz season subscription (access until July 27, 2027)

• If you purchased quiz season access and do not see your purchased code(s) on the Subscribe page, close the app completely and/or log out, then log in again. It can take a few minutes for your codes to appear. When they appear, you can use one of the codes to activate your own account. Follow the on-screen instructions to give quiz season access to each user/code.
• If someone else purchased quiz season access for you, log in and scroll down on the Subscribe page to Activate Subscription. Enter the code you were given and click Submit Code.

Add BQSuite to your Home Screen

BQSuite is both a website and an app. To make it look and act like an app, add it to your device Home Screen.

Chrome, Edge, and Android

Some browsers show an “Install” icon in the address bar. Select it and accept the prompt to install the app.

iPhone and iPad (Safari)

1. Tap the Share icon.
   
2. Scroll down past your contacts and suggested apps and tap Add to Home Screen.
   
3. You will return to your Home Screen, where the BQSuite app icon now appears.

Check your profile settings

Before you start, click the profile icon in the upper-right corner of your dashboard and choose Edit Profile. Make sure your quiz division and other settings are correct. Edit Profile is also where you change your password, add coaches, and (for coaches) add quizzers to monitor.

Forgot your password?

On the login page, click Forgot Password? in the lower left, then check that email account. If the reset email does not arrive within a couple of minutes:

• Check your Spam/Junk folder and the “Other,” “Promotions,” or “Updates” tabs. Search your inbox for the sender noreply@bqsuite.firebaseapp.com and the subject “Reset your password.”
• Add noreply@bqsuite.firebaseapp.com to your Contacts/Safe Senders, then request another reset.
• If you use Microsoft 365/Outlook, check Quarantine and Message Trace (admin) or your Safe/Blocked senders. Office 365 sometimes blocks these emails aggressively.
• Wait a little and avoid requesting several resets within a minute, because mail systems may throttle them.

Quizzer dashboard Quizzer

The quizzer dashboard gives quick access to every section and summarizes your leaderboard rankings, XP earned, and achievement badges. Heat maps show how well you know your material and let you practice your weak spots.

• Learn – memorize verses and learn chart work.
• Games – play the many BQSuite games.
• Quote – daily quoting.
• Toolbox – audio player, interruption practice, scorekeeping, and material lookup.

Daily Challenge

Each day every quizzer gets one attempt at the two daily challenges. Leaderboards are available for yesterday, today, and the last 7 days.

Memory Plan

The Memory Plan shows exactly which verses to memorize today and tomorrow. Check off a verse as learned right in this section. Click Show Verses Learned Settings to make larger adjustments to your verses learned, or Show Goal Settings to change your goal.

Goal settings

Set the verse you want to learn through, the date to learn it by, and up to two skip days per week. BQSuite calculates how many verses per week you need to learn.

Verse Progress Chart

A visual chart of your progress learning the material. The chart can be printed.

Task List

Shows what you have done in BQSuite over the last 7 days and your tasks for today. Items are checked off automatically as you work, and quick links take you straight to your next task. Coaches can assign tasks.

More Stats

Click Show More Stats to see more about your BQSuite use and mastery of the material: recently missed practice and game items, quote progress for every verse (BQSuite tracks every quote session and uses a star rating for each verse), and chart-work progress, so you know exactly where your strengths and weaknesses are.

Calendar

Click Show Calendar to see your calendar of past progress and future goals. Events your coach adds, like practices and tournaments, appear here too. Click the printer icon to print the calendar. See How to set up and print your schedule.

Heat maps: How well do I know my material? Quizzer

The quizzer dashboard has heat maps that show at a glance how well you know your material. Choose a tab to see a different category: Quotes, Verse Beginnings, Verse Endings, 1x Words, 2x Words, or 3x Words.

Reading a heat map

• Range – the top right shows which verses are included: from the start of your material through your last learned verse, plus 10 verses ahead.
• Summary – how many items you have tried, your average star rating, how many are strong (4+ stars), and how many need work (under 2 stars).
• Colors – each tile is colored from red (0 stars) to green (5 stars). Gray tiles have not been tried yet.
• Scrolling – the map opens where you need work. Scroll up for earlier (perfected) items, or down for more.

On the word tabs (1x, 2x, and 3x Words), each tile shows the word, its reference, and its star rating.

Practice from a heat map

Every heat map has two ways to choose what to practice. The verses or words chosen are outlined on the map.

• Practice my weak spots – picks a random mix of items marked weak, some not tried yet, and a few already strong (to keep them strong). After the first set, the button changes to Pick a new set so you can draw a different mix.
• Next 10 in order – picks the first 10 weak items from the beginning of the material, so you can perfect your earliest learned verses that are still marked weak.

Quotes heat map. After choosing your set, pick how to work on it:

• Play BQSpeed – polish up misquotes in a fun, interactive way that builds recall and speed.
• Start Quote Drill – re-quote the selected verses. A quote drill updates your star ratings.
• Open as verse cards – study the color-coded verse cards, the Memory Grids, or the BQLearn interactive method for learning verses. The cards are saved to your Study Stacks so you can come back to them.

Verse Beginnings, Verse Endings, and 1x/2x/3x Words heat maps. Play one of six BQSuite games over your selected items (Bubble, Choice, Match, Whack, Frog, or Toad Hop), click Surprise me to let BQSuite pick a game, or click Open as study cards to study them as a new Study Stack, which is also saved for later.

Coach dashboard Coach

Select a division to see how much time each quizzer in that division has spent in BQSuite over the last 7 days. To add quizzers, see How to add quizzers to monitor.

Printable practice tools

• Practice Check-in – prints a sheet to fill in as quizzers arrive at practice. For each quizzer it shows the latest verse recorded in BQSuite, when it was recorded, and space to write the latest verse they have memorized.
• BQSuite Usage – prints a summary for each quizzer to send home, showing parents how much their quizzer did in BQSuite this week. A great motivational tool.
• Weekly Schedule – prints a weekly schedule of verses to learn for each quizzer, based on what they know now and what they need to learn to reach their goal verse by their goal date.
• Spot Checks – prints a list of random verses for each quizzer to quote. Choose how many with the “number of random” menu in the Overview section (default 10). The range is based on how far each quizzer knows.
• Goal Checks – select a team goal in the Overview section, then print a different set of random verses for every quizzer using that end verse and number of verses. Because each quizzer has their own set, teammates can quote each other.

Quizzer settings in Overview

You can set the last verse learned for each of your quizzers, whether or not they use BQSuite.

Quick Quote (QQ) and Goal Quote (GQ)

Click QQ next to a quizzer to start a quick spot-check quote in BQQuote over a few random verses that quizzer knows. Click GQ to create a quick quote based on your team goal settings.

Event calendar Coach

On the coach dashboard, click Show Calendar, then click the add button to add events like quiz practices, fundraisers, and tournament dates. Events appear automatically on the calendars of your quizzers and co-coaches. Add quizzers and coaches to your account in Edit Profile (upper-right corner of your dashboard).

Learn New Verse

Click the stars to remove a few letters at a time. After each click, say the verse without hesitating before clicking the next star. When the last star is clicked the screen is blank, and you should be able to quote the verse from memory. It works much like the 15-method of memorization, but is more interactive. Click the image button in the header to open the Memory Grid for that chapter.

• Type to Learn – type the first letter of each word, then the reference. This reinforces word order and ties the reference to the verse.
• View Verse Card – jump to the color-coded card for the verse and back again.
• Audio – BQSuite can read the verse aloud and highlight each word (great for young readers), or play the verse’s song from the Audio Player.

Color-coded Verse Cards

Flip through interactive verse cards in order or at random, over a range or a specific set of verses. You can include Memory Grid images or show the back of the card first. Your stack is saved (see Study Stacks) so you can pick up where you left off. You can also mark a card as missed.

• Front: reference, verse ID, Memory Grid image, and VB (shows the unique verse beginning) and Hint (shows a unique word or phrase) buttons.
• Back: the color-coded verse. Click a 2x or 3x word to see its other references; seniors can click underlined pronouns for their identification.

Verse information button

Verse Analyzer and verse info

The Verse Analyzer breaks a verse into its probable answers to basic question words: who, what, when, where, why, how long, how many, and what kind of. Click a question category to highlight its answer(s). Use it to see what questions could be asked about a verse. Everything known about the verse (cross references, unique and repeated words and phrases) is included, and you can add your own notes. Official Points of Interpretation appear in the notes when released.

Reference Builder

Given a unique verse beginning, build the reference by selecting the book, chapter, then verse (single-book material fills in the book automatically). If you make a mistake, the correct answer flashes and you restart the reference, and the verse goes back in the stack for extra practice. You get credit for review time, but Reference Builder does not affect your verse beginning stats.

Timed Practice

Practice recalling verse beginnings, references, verse endings, 1x/2x/3x words, cross-reference phrases, and more. Choose a range or a specific set of verses and set the time to answer (3 to 30 seconds). Think of the answer, click Show, then mark whether you got it or missed it. Missed prompts go back in the stack.

List Verses

List color-coded verses in study order, Bible order, alphabetical order, or horizontal order (all verse 1s, then all verse 2s, and so on). Hover or click 2x and 3x words for references; seniors can toggle identified pronouns. Click the info icon beside a verse to open the Verse Analyzer.

Advanced Study Cards

Flip through cards over common chart work: verse beginnings and endings, missed VBs, 1x/2x/3x (and 4x for Int/Exp) words, cross-reference phrases, question words (Beg/Jr), and pronouns (Int/Exp). Hints are available, and every stack is saved in Study Stacks. This is untimed, casual review.

Cover and Check

A scrollable question-and-answer list with the answers covered. Uncover each one and mark the row right or wrong. It is untimed, so quizzers can work at their own pace, and selections are saved in Study Stacks.

Write to Memory

Writing out a verse is one of the best ways to memorize it. Type, use a stylus, or draw by hand a selected or random verse. Check your work yourself, or, if typed or written with a stylus, let the tool show what you missed.

Study Stacks

A Study Stack is created automatically whenever you create a Verse Cards stack, an Advanced Cards stack, or a Cover and Check list, or open verse or study cards from a dashboard heat map. Think of them like stacks of paper verse cards, except the same verse can be in many stacks and stacks can cover any kind of chart work. Your place in each stack is saved. Advanced and Cover and Check stacks can be studied either way: as cards or as a list.

Memory Grids and Grid Builder

A Memory Grid helps with fast recall of verses and references. The simple picture triggers the verse, and its position in the grid triggers the reference. Memorize the grid for a chapter and you will know the verse beginning and reference for every verse in it. Grids default to your division; coaches can choose any division. Print them with Full Page or Half-Page Booklet (highly recommended).

Grid Builder helps you memorize each chapter’s grid. Practice building the grid with text first, then without text.

Individual games Quizzer

• BQBubble – a bubble-popping game.
• BQChoice – a multiple-choice game.
• BQMatch – a matching game.
• BQSpeed – a fill-in-the-blank game with Easy, Medium, and Hard levels for every verse, to solidify memorization.
• BQWhack – whack as many correct answers as you can in this 2-minute game, similar to Whack-A-Mole.

Group games Coach

Games where each quizzer uses their own device

BQBattle is a leaderboard game similar to Kahoot. The coach sets up the battle and clicks Start Battle. Quizzers join by scanning the QR code or entering the coach’s email. When everyone has joined, the coach clicks First Battle Question. Questions are multiple choice; rankings are based on correctness and speed, with a leaderboard after every question and overall winners at the end.

BQTreasure, BQRace, and Toad Hop (1–4 players) are also multiplayer online multiple-choice games the coach sets up and hosts over any range of verses. Quizzers don’t need to be in the same room, so coaches can schedule games outside practice to keep quizzers engaged during the week.

Games that only need the coach’s device

BQJeopardy works like regular Jeopardy. Choose up to five categories from chart work or question categories, add the players, and create the board. The player whose turn it is picks a square (for example, 1x words for 300); read the prompt, and any quizzer can buzz in. The player or team with the most points wins.

BQSpin is set up the same way. On each turn a quizzer spins the wheel and answers the prompt. Play continues until all prompts are answered.

BQBingo (printable, no device needed) Coach

Create bingo games ahead of practice. Select the verses and category, then choose how many bingo cards and callout sheets to print. More cards and callout sheets can be made later with the same Game ID, so one set of printed cards can be reused for many games.

Create a quote session or drill

• Create New Drill – create a quote session or a drill over verse beginnings, verse endings, or 1x, 2x, or 3x words. Quote sessions have many options:

• Create Drill from Recent Missed – a quote session over just what was recently misquoted, or a drill over recently missed verse beginnings.
• Spot Check – print a spot-check quote list.

Quick Quote

Quoter view, quizzer view, remote and self quoting

During a live session the quoter view and quizzer view stay synced in real time. The parent/coach/guest quoter view tracks time and whether each verse is quoted perfectly. The optional quizzer view shows the quizzer the reference, and if the verse beginning is missed it appears there too.

• Remote quoting – quote a quizzer over FaceTime, a phone call, or any audio/video call. The quoter and quizzer can even be logged in to the same account from different places.
• Self-quote – a quizzer can quote on their own, and speech-to-text helps verify the quote.

Using BQQuote (older video, still useful)

Practice what was missed

After any quote session you can re-quote the missed verses or practice them in BQSpeed, BQChoice, or Reference Builder.

BQLookup (material lookup)

Select the division and end verse, then look up verses by reference and/or words and phrases. Use a slash (/) to look up several items at once, which is handy for following along as questions are read. Click the help button in BQLookup for detailed instructions and shortcuts. Results are interactive: hover or click underlined pronouns for their identification, 2x and 3x words for their other references, and the info button for everything known about the verse.

BQScore (scorekeeping)

Keep score on any device, including phones, the same way as the BQTournament software. Anything that can happen in a quiz can be tracked. Built-in material lookup is color-coded and works like BQLookup.

Buzzer (virtual buzzer system)

The Toolbox has an individual buzzer for working with one quizzer on interrupting, and a 6-quizzer virtual buzzer system for when you are traveling or a wireless/USB buzzer system isn’t available.

Prompt Generator Coach

Want to use your own games, like relay races, ring tosses, or basketball shots? The Prompt Generator creates printable question/answer slips from the verse range, categories, and number of prompts you choose. A list of game ideas for using the prompts at practice is included.

Audio Player

Attach audio to every verse. Use songs from BQSongs, QuizJams, or any provider that allows file download, use your own recordings or read verses, and mix sources so each verse has the audio you like best. Study the verse card while you listen, choose a range, play in order or at random, and loop playback even with your screen locked.

How to use the Audio Player (Dashboard → Toolbox → Audio Player)

BQQuest for coaches Coach

Open Toolbox → BQQuest. Question sets you buy from participating writers are imported automatically, usually within a week of purchase, when you order with your BQSuite login email.

• Exact Quiz – use a quiz exactly as written.
• Random Quiz – build a random quiz from one or more selected sets, over a range of verses.
• Question Types – filter by point value (10, 20, 30), question type, keyword(s), and how many times a question has been used.

Quizzes from several writers can be combined, and quizzes can be printed or exported to PDF. For example, you can create a random quiz over the first 67 verses using only 2-part, 20-point questions containing the word “why” that you have used no more than twice: focused practice on common question patterns and perfect interruptions.

BQQuest for quizzers Quizzer

Quizzers listen to questions read aloud, buzz in, answer, then check their answer. Questions a coach shares appear under Shared by my Coach, where you can pick the reading voice and speed and click Practice.

Interruption University training

BQQuest integrates the Interruption University guide from the Bible quizzing ministry of Christian Life Center, Heath, Ohio (Jay Lytle, CLC BQ Director), used with permission. See clcheath.com/biblequizzing.

Coaches

Interruption color-coding is on by default (click Hide Interrupt Colors to turn it off). Every question is color-coded by where a quizzer should interrupt. Click a question’s info icon to see why, taken directly from the guide, so you can explain whether an interruption was too early or too late.

Quizzers

Click Start, choose your usual buzzer position, and set the reader stop delay (200 ms is a good default; it mimics how long a quizmaster keeps talking after a buzz). Press Click when Ready; the question is read aloud. Buzz in at the best spot, answer, then click Check Answer (a self-check).

BQSuite shows the word where you buzzed and colors the background: red = too early, yellow = risky, green = ideal, blue = safe, with feedback from the guide.

Getting set up

• Create an account and subscribe
• Add BQSuite to your Home Screen
• Reset a forgotten password

Coaches

• Add quizzers to monitor
• Assign tasks to a quizzer
• Get question sets in BQQuest
• Share purchased question sets with your church
• Share questions with quizzers for practice
• Practice questions containing a keyword
• Open a saved BQScore scoresheet

Quizzers

• Set up and print a schedule calendar
• Practice missed items from a quote session
• Practice your weak spots from the dashboard heat maps

Troubleshooting

I open BQSuite and only see a blank screen

This sometimes happens after an update. Clear your browser’s cache. On iPhone/iPad: Settings → Safari → Clear History and Website Data. On desktop Safari: Develop → Empty Caches. On Chrome: Settings → Clear Browsing Data.

BQSuite is stuck on “Loading…”

Either you don’t have an internet connection, or your device’s parental/security settings are blocking the connection.

I paid but still see the Subscribe page

Close the app completely and/or log out, then log in again. It can take a few minutes for a purchase to activate. See Subscriptions.

My purchased season codes don’t appear

Close the app and/or log out and back in; codes can take a few minutes to appear on the Subscribe page.

I click Subscribe (or Manage Subscription) and nothing happens

Be patient; it can take several seconds to connect to the payment site. If the problem continues, contact us.

I didn’t get the password reset email

See Forgot your password? for where to look and how to whitelist the sender.

My purchased question sets don’t show up in BQQuest

Allow up to a week after purchase. Switch to a different division and back to force a refresh. If you ordered with an email other than your BQSuite login, contact ruth@upcquiz.com to link the order.

As a coach, I can’t see a quizzer’s progress

Add the quizzer’s BQSuite login email in Edit Profile. See How to add quizzers to monitor. Make sure the quizzer’s division is set correctly in their profile.

A keyword filter in BQQuest isn’t working

After typing the keyword, press Enter/Return so it turns into a tag. Then click Start.

I get an error message

Please contact us. Screenshots or a short video of the problem are very helpful.

Frequently asked questions

Is BQSuite an app or a website?

Both. BQSuite resizes for your device and can be added to your Home Screen so it looks and acts like an app. It requires an internet connection.

Does each person need an account?

Yes. Each user needs their own account with a unique email address.

Can I try BQSuite before subscribing?

There is no free trial, but bqsuite.com has details, sample dashboards, and screenshots you can view first.

How much does BQSuite cost?

Current monthly and quiz season rates are listed at bqsuite.com.

Does BQScore work with my buzzer system?

Not currently. BQScore does not work with any buzzer system, including the USB buzzer system. The Toolbox includes a virtual buzzer.

Where do I get songs for the Audio Player?

From BQSongs, QuizJams, or any provider that allows downloading files. You can also use your own recordings. See Audio Player.

What replaced the old website tools?

BQSuite replaced BQLookup, Flashcard Decks, the Spot Check Tool, BQ Games, and MyQuizChart from the UPCQuiz website.