PDF Tools for Teachers

Teaching generates a steady stream of PDF work outside the classroom itself: turning a chapter or article into a quiz, marking up submitted assignments, preparing handouts and worksheets, and getting permission slips or forms ready to send home. PDFly's tools are built to handle this without asking a school to buy a site license or a teacher to create yet another account.

The Quiz Generator is the tool teachers reach for most: upload a reading or textbook chapter and get a multiple-choice quiz based on its actual content, which is far faster than writing questions from scratch for every unit. Annotate PDF and Highlight PDF let you mark up submitted student work directly on screen with comments and highlights, without printing anything out. When you need students to fill in details on a worksheet or permission slip digitally, Fill PDF Forms handles that, and Redact PDF is useful when sharing student work or records externally and certain names or details need to be hidden first.

For the more administrative side of the job, Merge PDF combines multiple worksheets or handouts into a single packet to print or send home, Organize PDF lets you reorder pages in a multi-page handout before distributing it, and Compress PDF shrinks a large scanned packet so it fits within a school email system's attachment limit. If you need to sign a form or approval yourself, Sign PDF covers that directly in the browser as well.

Every tool here is free, and most process files locally in the browser rather than uploading them to a server, which matters when the files in question are student work or records. There's no account required, so a tool can be used on a shared classroom computer or a personal laptop without any setup. For AI-specific tools like summarizing or explaining a reading before building a lesson around it, see the full AI PDF Tools hub, and for the student-facing side of these same tools, see our PDF tools for students page.