Moving From Posting Worksheets to Teaching With Them

Posting a PDF and asking everyone to "work through it quietly" hands out the work and leaves out the teaching. The pages land in front of pupils, but the explaining, the modelling and the live "watch this bit" all go missing. A digital classroom platform built around live annotation closes that gap: instead of handing a worksheet over and walking away, you teach with it. You upload your PDF, annotate it on the board while the class follows on their screens, then turn the same pages into practice that marks itself. This post walks through that change, from sharing files to teaching from them at the front of the class.

Teach the page, don't just hand it over

The first change is where the worksheet lives. Rather than a static file pupils open alone, the PDF becomes the surface you teach on.

Upload your PDF and present it full-screen on the smart board, then write straight onto it with pressure-sensitive, calligraphy-style ink.
Pupils who switch to your board view see your pen strokes as you write, so a child at the back sees the same working you do at the front.
"Follow-me" page sync keeps pupils who have the same PDF open on the page you are on, and continuous vertical scroll keeps a long document in one column instead of separate slides.

That is the difference between posting pages and teaching them: the class watches you work through the worksheet, one annotation at a time, instead of facing it alone.

Work the first question together, then release

Modelling matters most on the opening question. Because the board and the pupil screens show the same page, you can demonstrate before anyone works alone.

Annotate question one live, talking through your thinking while pupils watch the ink appear in the board view.
Build questions from the same material three ways: type them by hand, bulk-import the Question Bank spreadsheet template, or let the AI draft questions for you to review and approve one by one.
Run that set live or self-paced; multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, matching and jumbled-sentence questions are supported, with maths in LaTeX and images attached where you need them.

Objective answers auto-mark the moment a pupil submits, so the page you taught from becomes practice you never carry home to grade. Note that ClassKite has no worksheet generator, and the AI drafts questions only: it does not read your PDF's contents or write lesson plans.

Start teaching with your next PDF and turn a file you would have posted into a lesson the whole class follows.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a paid plan to annotate a PDF live on the board?

No. Live PDF annotation, smart-board teaching, writing questions by hand and running practice with instant feedback are all on the free Teacher Basic plan. Pupils join free in the browser with a join code. AI drafting, unlimited bulk import and class analytics such as reports are on the paid Teacher Plus and School plans, and a department can be covered together through school plans. Compare the options.

Does the platform mark the worksheet for me?

It marks the questions you add to it. Every question type is marked on submit, so pupils get instant feedback and you skip that marking. On Teacher Plus and the School plan, the Gradebook then keeps a running grade worked out from those marks.

Can pupils see my annotations on their own devices?

Yes. Pupils who switch to your board view see your pen strokes as you write, and follow-me sync keeps pupils on the same PDF on the page you are teaching from.