Moving From Posting Worksheets to Teaching With Them

Posting a PDF and asking everyone to "work through it quietly" is distribution, not 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, keep every screen in step, then turn the very same pages into practice that marks itself. This post walks through that shift, from file-sharing to genuine front-of-class teaching.

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.
Your pen strokes stream live to every pupil device, so a child at the back sees the same working you do at the front.
"Follow-me" page sync keeps everyone on the page you are on, and vertical continuous scroll means long documents stay one smooth column instead of a slideshow.

That is the difference between posting pages and teaching them: the class watches the worksheet come alive, annotation by annotation, rather than facing it in silence.

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 as the ink appears on every device.
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, jumbled-sentence and more 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. A quick note: 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 class code. AI drafting, bulk import and class analytics sit on the paid Teacher Plus and School plans.

Does the platform mark the worksheet for me?

Objective question types auto-mark on submit, so pupils get instant feedback and you skip that marking. ClassKite is not a gradebook; it does not store ongoing grades on your behalf.

Can pupils see my annotations on their own devices?

Yes. Your live pen strokes stream to every joined device, and follow-me sync keeps each screen on the page you are teaching from.