Papers
Your paper library — every draft and published paper, with create, open, assign, duplicate, publish, export and (permission-gated) delete actions.
What this screen shows
The Papers tab is the home of Paper Canva — your whole paper library in one workspace. Each card (or list row) is a paper showing its title, a Draft or Published status badge, Questions and Marks counts, the subject chips and chapter coverage, and the updated date. A folder tree down the side groups papers by Board › Class › Subject › Chapter. Use this screen to start a new paper, jump back into one you are editing, or act on existing papers without opening them.
Top toolbar
Opens a small menu with two ways to begin a paper — From scratch (you choose the syllabus scope, then build on a blank canvas) or From a document (AI extracts the questions for you).
- … From scratch
Opens the Scope screen, where you set what the paper is allowed to cover before the canvas appears: a board, a class, one or more subjects, then the chapters — each shown with its live question count, searchable by name, with Select all per grid. - Add another scope stacks a second board or class into the same paper (up to four), so one paper can mix, say, CBSE Class 12 Mathematics with JEE Main Mathematics. - The chevron on a chapter card expands it into a topic checklist; tick a few topics and the paper takes only those (the card then reads "(24 of 96)"). Topics with no questions are hidden. Create Paper then opens the blank print canvas, locked to that scope — the Question Library, filters, random add and blueprint only offer questions from it.
- … From a document
- Opens the content-import flow: drop a PDF, image or pasted text and AI extracts the questions into a new paper for you.
- Filters the library by free text — searches across paper title, subject and chapter ("Search papers, subjects, chapters…").
- Opens a popover to narrow the list by board, grade and subject.
Shows or hides the folder tree sidebar that groups papers by Board › Class › Subject › Chapter. Click a folder to scope the list to it.
- Switches the library to a card grid — richer per-paper detail at a glance.
- Switches to a compact list — more papers per screen, easier to scan long libraries.
Status tabs
- Every paper in the current folder/filter, with a live count.
- Work-in-progress papers (amber accent) that are still editable on the canvas.
- Approved papers (emerald accent). Published papers are read-only — duplicate one to edit it again.
Per-paper actions (card footer + ⋯ menu)
Each paper exposes its actions in the card footer and an overflow (⋯) menu; clicking the card opens a detail drawer with the same actions laid out as a button grid plus a stats panel and a danger zone.
- Opens the paper on the print canvas to keep editing. (For a published paper this opens it read-only — duplicate to make changes.)
- Assigns the paper to a class, batch or set of students as graded work; the assignment then appears under the Assessments tab.
- Create Online Exam
- Converts the paper into a timed Online Exam — carrying its questions and sections across so you only set the schedule and proctoring.
- Publish to Marketplace
- Lists the paper on the Marketplace so other educators can preview and duplicate it.
Clones the paper (structure + questions) into a new editable draft — the fastest way to spin up next term’s test or to edit a published paper. Removes the paper. Drafts delete cleanly; a paper linked to an Online Exam asks for confirmation and may need a permission-gated force delete (see the warning below).
Bulk actions (when papers are selected)
- Duplicate (bulk)
- Clones every selected paper in one go.
- Delete (bulk)
- Deletes every selected paper. If any are linked to exams you are asked once to confirm the force-delete for the whole batch.
Common tasks
- Click + New paper → From scratch to start blank, or From a document to AI-extract from a PDF/image/text.
- Use Search, Filters and the Folders sidebar (or the Draft / Published tabs) to find an existing paper.
Click a paper to open the detail drawer, then Open & Edit, Assign, Create Online Exam, Duplicate or Publish to Marketplace — or open it straight onto the canvas.
- Select several papers to Duplicate or Delete them in bulk.
- Delete stale drafts to keep the library tidy.
Gotchas
Deleting a paper that is linked to an Online Exam is blocked first: Edukali returns a conflict listing the blockers (how many exams, attempts and certificates depend on it) and asks you to confirm a force delete. A force delete unlinks the dependent exams (sets their paperid to null) and removes the paper — the exams, student attempts and certificates are preserved. Force-deleting requires the papers:delete permission; teachers can only delete papers they own, while admins/owners can delete any paper. A Published paper is read-only on the canvas. To change a published paper, Duplicate it, edit the copy, then re-publish — the original stays intact for anyone it has already been assigned or shared to.
If a question in a saved paper is later marked Out of Syllabus (from anywhere in Edukali), reopening that paper shows an "OOS — replace" badge on the affected question so you can swap it — use the question’s Replace action on the canvas — before you print or assign the paper. The paper itself is never silently changed; the badge just flags what to fix.