Paper Canva
Compose print-ready question papers on a true-to-print canvas — sections, page breaks, alternative questions — or let AI draft the whole paper from a chapter PDF, then publish to print, Online Exam, OMR or Answer Sheet.
What it is
Paper Canva is Edukali’s print-first paper builder. You assemble a question paper on a true-to-print A4 canvas — what you see on screen is exactly what comes off the printer, down to numbering, marks placement and page breaks. Pull questions from a bank of 1,000,000+ ready questions, drag them onto the page, or let AI draft an entire paper from a document (PDF, image or pasted text). A Word-style ribbon across the top — Home, Layout, Design, Header, Footer, Review, Export — gives you fine control over every aspect of the printed sheet. When the paper is ready you export a clean A4 PDF (or Word file) with a separate answer key, or convert the same paper into an Online Exam or Offline (OMR) exam.
Who it's for
Built for teachers and parents who set classroom tests, and for org admins / owners who curate paper libraries across a school. Students do not see Paper Canva — it is a teacher-side authoring product. It is purchase-gated: the product shell shows a buy screen until your tenant is entitled, and each paper carries a small paper-credit cost (1 credit per 50 questions) drawn from your wallet.
Key capabilities
- AI paper generation — draft a full paper "from a document" (PDF / image / pasted text), Bloom’s-tagged and difficulty-tiered, with worked solutions inline. - Drag-and-drop canvas with sections, marks, page breaks and alternative ("or") questions. - 15+ question types — MCQ, case-based, match, numerical, fill-in-the-blank, assertion–reason, comprehension, long-answer and more. - Tiptap rich-text editor with KaTeX math, tables, code blocks and images. - Word-style ribbon (Home · Layout · Design · Header · Footer · Review · Export) for typography, page setup, branding, header/footer fields and a pre-print audit. - Bilingual papers (English + a regional language) in a paired two-column layout. - Print-ready A4 PDF with a separate answer key, plus Word and LMS (Moodle / Canvas / Blackboard) export. - One-click convert to an Online Exam or Offline (OMR) exam, or Assign straight to a class.
Setting the scope
Every paper you start From scratch begins on the Scope screen — the same picker Online Exam, OMR and Rank Booster use, so the flow is identical wherever you create questionwork. You choose a board, a class and one or more subjects, then tick the chapters the paper may draw from. That choice is then locked into the paper: the docked Question Library, its filters, random add and the blueprint builder only ever offer questions from the chapters (or topics) you picked, so a Class 10 paper can never quietly pull in a Class 9 question.
Pick Board, Class and Subjects at the top — subjects are multi-select. The Chapters panel below fills in as you go: a Full syllabus grid (questions from every source) for each subject, plus a separate grid for each individual source — a textbook or exam set — the bank holds. Every chapter card shows its live question count in brackets; chapters with no questions yet are greyed out and cannot be ticked. Type in Search chapters to jump to one by name, or use Select all — the number beside it is how many questions that grid would bring in.
The Paper Studio scope screen: Board, Class, Subjects and Search chapters across the top, with a grid of chapter cards and question counts below
Board → Class → Subjects → chapters, with a live question count on every chapter and on Select all.
To mix syllabi in one paper, click Add another scope. A second block appears with its own board, class and subjects — for example CBSE Class 12 Mathematics in the first block and JEE Main Mathematics in the second, so a single paper carries both the board syllabus and harder entrance-style questions. You can stack up to four scopes. Each extra block gets a Scope 2 / 3 / 4 badge with Collapse and Remove controls, and the footer keeps a running tally: scopes, subjects, chapters, topics and total questions in scope.
The scope screen with a second scope block added below the first, carrying its own board, class and subject pickers and Collapse and Remove controls
"Add another scope" stacks another board or class into the same paper — up to four.
To take only part of a chapter, click the chevron on its card. The chapter expands into a checklist of its topics, each with its own question count, fetched the moment you open it. Tick just the topics you want: the chapter’s tick becomes a dash and its count reads like (24 of 96), meaning the paper draws from those topics only. Tick every topic — or the chapter box itself — to put the whole chapter back in scope.
A chapter card expanded into an indented checklist of topics with question counts, several topics ticked, and the chapter itself showing a partial-selection dash
Expand any chapter to pick topics — a partly-ticked chapter contributes only the topics you chose.
Topics with no questions are hidden from the checklist altogether, so everything you can tick will actually put questions on the paper. If a chapter opens to "No topics with questions in this chapter", its questions simply are not topic-tagged yet — leave it ticked as a whole chapter.
Chapters ticked under a source grid are always taken whole, and the paper is then restricted to that source — the footer says so (e.g. "NCERT only"). Topic narrowing lives in the Full syllabus grid only; if you tick the same chapter in both places, the source pick wins and the chapter is taken in full.
The scope is fixed when the paper is created — the canvas has no scope editor, so you cannot widen it later. Add every board, class, chapter and topic you might want while you are still on this screen. If you do run short afterwards, start a new paper with the wider scope (or Duplicate and rebuild).
Quick start
Open Papers (the product home tab) and click + New paper → From scratch for a blank paper, or From a document to let AI extract questions out of a PDF, image or pasted text.
From scratch opens the Scope screen first. Pick a board, a class and one or more subjects, then tick the chapters this paper may draw from. Use Add another scope to mix a second board or class into the same paper, and the chevron on a chapter card to narrow that chapter to individual topics. When the footer shows the questions in scope, click Create Paper. The Setting the scope section below walks through it in full.
Give the paper a title, then add a section header for each part of the exam (e.g. "Section A — MCQ").
Open the docked Question Library — it is already limited to the chapters and topics you scoped — narrow further by type or difficulty, and drag questions onto the page. Or use the Home ribbon’s AI Generate to draft a full set.
Set marks per question, insert page breaks (Layout tab) where you want a new printed page, and add alternative questions where students get a choice.
Walk the ribbon: Layout (page setup), Design (branding, numbering, marks display), Header / Footer (the fields printed at the top and bottom).
Open Review to audit totals and balance, then Approve to publish. Finally use Export to download a print-ready PDF (with answer key) or Word file — or Assign / convert to an Online or Offline exam.
Every ribbon tab — Home, Layout, Design, Header, Footer, Review, Export — has its own micro-level guide documenting each button, toggle and spinner. Open the Paper Canva ribbon guides for a fully labelled parts list.
The sub-nav tabs
Your paper library — drafts and published papers with question count, marks and last-edited time. Create, open, duplicate, assign, share, export or delete papers here.
The unified hub for everything you have assigned — Papers, Online, OMR and Answer Sheet — with status (draft / published / active / completed / graded / archived).
Reusable exam blueprints (JEE Main/Advanced, NEET, CBSE Term, ICSE, Quick/Weekly Test, Practice, Custom) — start a new paper from a saved structure instead of a blank page.
Browse, preview and fork community papers and question collections; publish your own as listings.