Schoology Bug With PDFs

mjohnsondux — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:49:56 GMT

Hello,

We had a teacher report a potential bug with PDFs and we wanted to share.

I created a practice test in Google docs and downloaded it as a PDF.
Then, in Preview on my laptop, I added a bunch of text boxes with
answers to create a key.
I saved that PDF with the text boxes and uploaded it to Schoology,
but when viewed in Schoology, none of the text boxes are there, only
the underlying questions from the original Google doc.
When downloaded from Schoology, the text boxes reappeared, so I can
tell they were never deleted, but somehow refused to display.
I went back to Preview and this time went the "File>Print>Save as PDF"
route.
That new "printed" version does display correctly when uploaded to
Schoology.

Thank you.

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