Add an AI-made HTML quiz or game to Padlet so students can open it

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot made your class a review game as one .html file, and it runs when you open it on your computer. Now it has to go on the class Padlet, where students open it on Chromebooks and iPads. There are 2 ways to put it on a board: attach the file to a post, or post a link to the page. This guide compares them and gives the steps for the link. Padlet's help pages quoted here were read on November 7, 2026.

Attach the file or post a link: what students get

Padlet's help is clear about the link and silent about the .html file. A link to a published page opens the page itself, so a quiz's buttons and a game's script work on any device with a browser. When students click a link on a padlet that leads to an outside site, Padlet's help says it runs a safety check and shows a warning screen for a link it judges dangerous.

Can you paste HTML code into a Padlet post?

Padlet's help gives no way to run code pasted into a post. The formatting it describes for a post's text is bold, italics, strikethrough, hyperlinks, highlights, math in LaTeX, and lists. A post's body holds up to 10,000 characters. So a quiz needs to live at a web address, and the post carries that address.

What students see when you upload the .html file

Padlet's FAQ on adding a post says it accepts “almost all file formats,” and its upload limits page gives 20MB per upload on the free Neon plan, 500MB on Platinum, and 1GB on Team Gold, Classroom, and Padlet for Schools. Neither page says what a student sees when they open an attached .html file: the working page, its code, or a download.

We didn't test it, because that takes a Padlet account. If you try an attachment, open the post on a student's Chromebook or iPad before class and press a button in the quiz. A page that looks finished but does nothing when tapped is a page whose script isn't running.

Publish your HTML and post it on Padlet as a link in 5 steps

The box at the top of this page turns the file into a page with its own address. Students then open it from the board with no Convika account.

1. Drop the file or paste the code in the box

In the upload box, drop one .html or .htm file (up to 2 MB) under Upload a file, or switch to Paste code and paste the code from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot. Click Get my preview link. You don't need an account or an email for this. The preview is for checking only: it works for 3 minutes, with scripts and forms off, so the quiz's buttons won't respond yet. Don't post it on the board.

2. Keep the page and check that it runs

Click Keep this page — free, no card and sign up. The page moves into your account as you uploaded it, and its scripts run there. Click Open preview and play the quiz through once.

3. Publish the page

Click Publish page. Under Who can open this page?, choose Public and click Next. The first time you publish, Convika shows Publish free, and under it Publish without the Convika bar, which opens an order for Pro monthly (1 day free with a card, then $12 a month). To publish on Free, click Publish free. Students open a Public page without an account or a password, and it may show up in search results and in Convika's gallery, whatever the board's own privacy setting is. To keep it out of both, choose Private link (Pro) instead.

4. Copy the address

Click Copy next to the Live URL. The address looks like yourpage.convika.page and stays the same until you click Unpublish. To project it as well, click Show QR code next to it.

5. Post the link on the board

On the board, click + Post (or double-click the board), choose the link (🔗) button, and paste the address. Add a title, such as “Fractions review game,” and click Publish. Padlet makes a preview image for a link. To change it, click the pencil icon in the image's bottom-right corner, pick an image, and click Done, as Padlet's help describes.

If you can't post a link on the board

• No + Post button. Padlet's help says the board's owner may not allow posting. On your own board, check that you're signed in to the account that owns it.
• No link button. Open the board's settings with the cog icon (⚙️), go to Posts, then Post fields, and click Attachment. Turn the attachment types you want on, and click Save. In a Classroom or Padlet for Schools account, an admin can set an attachment type to Disabled, which removes it from the menu for everyone.
• Students should post their own links. Padlet's FAQ gives Share > Visitors with a link > Writer.
• The page doesn't open on school devices. A school web filter can block a site it doesn't know yet. Open the link on one student device before class, and ask whoever runs the filter to allow the address if it's blocked.

Test the post as a student

Padlet's help doesn't describe a student view. Open the board on a student's Chromebook or iPad, or in a private browser window where you're signed out, and click the post. If the board needs students to sign in, use a student device. Check 3 things: the page opens, a button in the quiz responds, and the page fits the screen.

When the page shows as an empty box

A published Convika page refuses to be shown inside another site's frame. Padlet's help doesn't say whether a link post shows the site inside Padlet or opens it in its own tab. If students click the post and see an empty box where the page should be, the page is being shown in a frame, and it can't load there. Put the address in the post's text too. Padlet's help says “URLs, email addresses and telephone numbers are automatically hyperlinked,” so students get a plain link to tap as well. A QR code from Show QR code works too: students scan it with the iPad's Camera app.

Fix a question without reposting

On the page's screen in Convika, under Update from an HTML file, click Upload a new version, drop the corrected file, and click Upload as a new version. Check it with Open preview, then click Publish v2 at the same link. The post on the board stays as it is, and its link opens the fixed page. The QR code stays the same too.

Next week's quiz. Free keeps 1 published page live at a time. One page can hold several quizzes picked from a menu: ask the AI to add each new quiz to the same file, then upload it as a new version. A separate quiz page is a second publish. If Convika takes it for a new version of the live quiz, click Publish it as another page. For a Public page, the choice is then Light ($3 a month on top of Free, for up to 5 live pages; the Convika bar stays), through Publish this page too, with Light, or Swap it in for the live page (free), which puts last week's quiz back to a draft and stops its link on the board. This is the rule for workspaces created on or after October 23, 2026 (Japan time). Pricing lists each plan.

Frequently asked questions

Can you upload an HTML file to Padlet?

Padlet's help says it accepts “almost all file formats,” up to 20MB per upload on the free Neon plan. It doesn't say how an attached .html file looks to students or whether its scripts run. To be sure the quiz works, publish the file at its own address and post that address with the link (🔗) button.

How do I add a link to a Padlet post?

Click + Post on the board, choose the link (🔗) button, paste the address, and click Publish. To change the preview image, click the pencil icon in its bottom-right corner, pick an image, and click Done. If the link button is missing, turn it on under the board's settings cog (⚙️) > Posts > Post fields > Attachment.

Can I embed HTML in Padlet?

Padlet's help describes no way to run HTML code inside a post, and a published Convika page refuses to be shown inside another site's frame. Post the page as a link instead. Students click it and the page opens with its scripts running.

Why won't my HTML file work on Padlet?

If you attached the file, Padlet's help doesn't say whether it shows as a page, as code, or as a download. If you posted the preview link from the box on this page, it stops working after 3 minutes and runs no scripts. Post the address under Live URL after you click Publish page.

Do students need an account to open the page?

No Convika account is needed to open a published page. Padlet's own sign-in depends on the board: Padlet's FAQ says posting without an account works, and the post shows as anonymous. A board set to Secret - Log in asks visitors to sign in to Padlet first.

Sources

• Add a post to your board (Padlet Help) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Upload limitations for different plan types (Padlet Help) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Format text in a post (Padlet Help) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Customize your post's thumbnail image (Padlet Help) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Disable tools and attachment types (Padlet Help) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Padlet privacy options (Padlet Help) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Why can't I post on padlet? (Padlet Help) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Blocking spam links (Padlet Help) (read on November 7, 2026)