Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your QZ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert QZ to another file type
To convert QZ Archives to another format, you need QuizCreator or other Data software.
Convert a file to QZ
To convert other file formats to the "Quiz or Archive File" file type, you need software like QuizCreator or a similar tool.
About QZ files
The .QZ file is primarily used as an XML-based quiz container encoded in UTF-16 (LE) by e-learning software like Question Writer and QuizCreator. Alternatively, it serves as a compressed data file generated by the QuickLZ qpress utility or QuickZip, which relies on GZIP algorithms. It is also occasionally seen as a diagnostic log snapshot for Progress WhatsUp Gold. The major disadvantage of .QZ quiz files is their closed, proprietary nature. They are locked to specific educational platforms, requiring specialized, often expensive software to open, and they cannot be natively viewed in standard web browsers. Compressed .QZ files present similar frustrations because native operating systems (like Windows or macOS) do not support the extraction of qpress archives out-of-the-box. When managing quiz data, converting a .QZ file to XML, CSV, or TXT is highly recommended to extract the raw question banks for use in standard LMS systems like Moodle, though interactive media elements will be lost. For the compressed variants, converting to standard ZIP or 7Z ensures universal accessibility. Standard online converters almost always fail to process .QZ files because the extension shares multiple conflicting binary and text-based structures.
Convert.Guru analyzes your QZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert QZ file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use QuizCreator or similar software from the "Quiz Data and Compressed Archives" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to QZ, try QuizCreator or another comparable tool in the "Quiz Data and Compressed Archives" category.
The QZ Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our QZ converter.