At first glance, knowing how too embed a PDF may not seem like a relevant teaching tool. I know it wasn’t to me when I first came across it. But the more I use it, the more I find it a useful aid for students, teachers, and parents. As the world of education increasingly moves towards online integration, this skill will save us all a lot of time.
Some of the benefits:
- Adding PDFs to class websites is an easy way to distribute downloadable forms to students.
- Parents can download permission slips.
- You can upload scanned student materials for the class to see.
- This can be an easy way to showcase that Google Doc you worked so hard on available to the world.
How to do it:
I’m going to go over the easiest way to do this that I have found.
- Start by opening Google Drive and going to your desired PDF. (If you don’t have a Google account, just make one it’s free and easy to use. Once you’ve uploaded your PDF to the Drive, come back here.)
- In the top right corner you will see three dots, click on them to reveal a drop down window.
- Click open in a new window.
- Click the three dots in the top right corner again. (I know it seems repetitive.)
- Click embed.
- Copy the link that shows up, and head on over to your own website.
- Switch over the to text option.
- Past your link into the bottom of your text file, update your webpage, and you’re done!
Congrats you’ve embedded a PDF!
If you want to see an example of what it will look like when you are done, click HERE.
