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We use the Apple Schoolwork app regularly at our school and with the recent update we've lost the ability to assign PDFs and collaborate on the [PDF] document with students. It works like it used to with other documents, just not PDFs. PDFs can be assigned in the new 'send & collect' section but they're not collaborative like Keynote and Pages documents are in the 'collaborate' section. Any work arounds? Thanks!
Apple Classroom: Share Documents
Sharing PDF to Schoolwork and uploading to Canvas
Pages for iPad: Collaboration
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October 07, 2025 .
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Yes, this is such an irritating development. Being able to view my students’ annotations in a PDF document was one of the key advantages of using Schoolwork. I guess I can distribute worksheets as collaborative Pages docs, as I originally create all my PDFs in Pages, but this doesn’t resolve the issue with original PDFs, such as downloaded research papers.
PDFs can be opened in Preview (or sent to a PDF reader e.g. Notability or PDF Expert), but they lose their original title and are given a meaningless title, e.g. file_16741d84-b3eb-4fc2-afcd-9db20f836900, which will be a nightmare for organisationally-challenged high-school students.
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