How to Create Digital Practice from a PDF

You already have the worksheets, past papers, and textbook pages your students need. The slow part is turning them into something students can do — not just read. Here's how to turn any PDF into live, interactive practice in a few minutes with ClassKite.

Why start from a PDF?

Most teaching material already lives in PDFs: exam boards publish them, textbooks export them, and your own worksheets are a print away. Rebuilding all of that inside a new tool is wasted effort. ClassKite keeps your original PDF as the page students see and lets you add questions on top — so the material your students recognise stays exactly as it was.

The ClassKite section editor: a drag-and-drop area to upload a PDF or PPT, with worked examples and an uploaded sample.pdf listed below. — Drop in your worksheet PDF, then build the practice — worked examples and questions sit alongside your material.

Step by step: from PDF to practice

Create a class and a topic. Each topic groups the practice for one lesson or unit.
Upload your PDF. Drag in the worksheet or past paper. The pages render exactly as printed, so diagrams and layout are preserved, and students can annotate directly on them.
Build the questions. Add the questions students work through alongside your PDF — multiple choice, short answer, or fill-in — each paired with your material.
Set the answers. Mark the correct response so ClassKite can score automatically as students work.
Start a live session. Students join, work through the PDF, and you teach from the same pages on the smart board.

Create a free teacher account and turn your first PDF into practice.

Before and after

Before: you photocopy a worksheet, students fill it in, you collect 30 copies and mark them that evening — and only then find out half the class missed the same step.

After: the same worksheet is live on screen, scored as students go, and you can see the common mistake while the lesson is still happening.

A common mistake to avoid

Don't recreate the whole worksheet as separate questions and drop the original page. The PDF is the context — keep it, and anchor questions to it. Students stay oriented, and you keep the layout, diagrams, and wording you trust.

The student view of a shared section: a 'Practice is open' banner and the worked examples and questions students work through. — What students see — your shared practice, with the questions they work through and your PDF material attached.

Tip: reuse across classes

Once a PDF is set up with questions, you can run it with every class you teach. Build it once; use it all week.

Try it with a PDF you already use →

Written by the ClassKite team and reviewed by a practising teacher.