Add an AI-made HTML quiz or game to a Seesaw activity as a link students tap

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot made a counting game or a phonics quiz for your class as one .html file, and it runs when you open it on your computer. Your students use Seesaw, often on shared iPads, and they can't be asked to save a file and open it in a browser. This guide shows what Seesaw does with each way of adding the game, and the steps for a link students tap. Seesaw's help pages quoted here were read on November 7, 2026.

Upload, Note, or Link: what students get

A link is the one way of the 3 that Seesaw's help describes for a web page. The quiz then runs in the device's browser, the same on an iPad, a Chromebook, or a phone at home.

Can you paste HTML code into Seesaw?

Seesaw's help describes the Note tool as a lined page where you type, to “write and publish text notes.” It describes no way to run HTML or a script inside a post or an activity. Pasted code stays a note for students to read, not a game for them to play.

Can you upload an HTML file to Seesaw?

Seesaw's help on supported file types lists photos, videos, audio, and PDFs: .jpg, .jpeg, .m4a, .mov, .mp3, .mp4, .ogv, .pdf, .png, .svg, .wav, and .webm. It says Seesaw “will automatically convert files into PDFs” for work made in Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets. .html isn't on the list, and no help page we read says what happens if you try to upload one. We didn't try it, because that takes a Seesaw account.

Publish your HTML and add it to Seesaw 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 Seesaw 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 game's buttons won't respond yet. Don't add it to Seesaw.

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 game through once, ideally on an iPad like your students'.

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. To keep it out of both, choose Private link (Pro) instead. Keep students' names off the page.

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. Seesaw's Link tool asks for a link you've copied, so this puts it on your clipboard.

5. Add the link to an activity

In Seesaw, tap the green +Add button and select Create Activity. Enter the activity name. Under Student Response Template, choose Create from Scratch, which opens the Creative Canvas. Tap More Tools, which Seesaw's help says holds links, add a link, and paste the address when Seesaw asks for it. Add instructions, such as “Tap the link and play the game,” tap Save, then Assign, pick the class and students, and tap Assign Now.

To put the link in students' journals instead, select the Journal tab, tap the green +Add button, then Add to Student Journal, choose Link, paste the address, and tap the green Check.

How students open the link on an iPad or a Chromebook

Seesaw's help doesn't say whether a link tapped in Seesaw opens in Safari or inside the Seesaw app on an iPad, or in a new tab on a Chromebook. Wherever it opens, it's the page's own address, not a file, so there's nothing to save first. In our iPad test on October 24, 2026 (iPadOS 26.5 in Apple's iPad Simulator, described in How to open an HTML file on an iPad), a published Convika page opened from its address in Safari ran its scripts. We didn't test Seesaw itself.

Two things can stop a link on school iPads:

• Websites limited in Screen Time. Seesaw's iPad tips use Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > App Store, Media, Web & Games > Web Content to approve the Seesaw app's local address (localhost). If your iPads limit websites there, the page's address needs to be on the same approved list.
• A school web filter. A filter can block a site it doesn't know yet. Open the link on one student iPad before class, and ask whoever runs the filter to allow the address if it's blocked.

For a class that starts from the board, put a QR code on the board instead. Click Show QR code next to the Live URL, then Download PNG. How to turn an HTML file into a QR code covers scanning it with the iPad's Camera app.

Test the activity as a student

Seesaw gives you 2 ways to see what students will see:

• Preview as Student. While you create an activity, Seesaw's help says you can “tap Preview as Student to view the Activity in Student Mode.”
• Sample Student. Once the activity is assigned, tap Add Response on it and select Sample Student to respond as a test student.

Tap the link and play for a minute: the game should open, a button should respond, and the page should fit the iPad's screen. Then try it once on a real student iPad, because the school's settings live there.

Does Seesaw show the page inside the activity?

Seesaw's help names one embed, for YouTube videos on the Creative Canvas, and nothing for other websites. Its 2024 product notes say a YouTube link shows its feature image “rather than a webpage screenshot,” so another link gets a picture of the page, not the page itself. Schools can turn off link previews for links students add. None of the tools Seesaw's help describes shows another site's page inside the activity.

A published Convika page refuses to be shown inside another site's frame. If you ever see an empty box where the game should be, the page was put in a frame, and it can't load there. Add it as a link, as in the steps above.

Fix a question without reassigning the activity

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 link in the Seesaw activity stays as it is, and it opens the fixed game. A QR code you printed keeps working too.

Next week's game. Free keeps 1 published page live at a time. One page can hold several games picked from a menu: ask the AI to add each new game to the same file, then upload it as a new version. A separate game page is a second publish. If Convika takes it for a new version of the live game, 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 game back to a draft and stops its link in Seesaw. 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 Seesaw?

Seesaw's list of supported file types has no .html: it lists photos, videos, audio, and PDFs. To give students an HTML game, publish the file at its own address and add that address with Seesaw's Link tool, in an activity or a journal post.

How do I add a link to a Seesaw activity?

Copy the address first: Seesaw's Link tool asks you to paste a link from your clipboard. Then tap the green +Add button, select Create Activity, choose Create from Scratch, add a link from More Tools on the Creative Canvas, and paste the address. Tap Save, then Assign.

How do students open a link in Seesaw on an iPad?

They tap it. Seesaw's help doesn't say whether it opens in Safari or inside the Seesaw app. A published Convika page ran its scripts when opened in Safari in our October 24, 2026 iPad test. If the iPads limit websites in Screen Time, add the page's address to the approved list.

Can you embed a website in Seesaw?

Seesaw's help describes an embed for YouTube videos only. For other links, the Creative Canvas shows a preview picture of the page. A published Convika page can't be shown inside another site's frame anyway, so add it as a link students tap.

Why won't my link work in Seesaw?

Check 3 things. Seesaw's help says it keeps “an expansive list of restricted words” for links, without saying what happens to a link that matches one, so a word in the address may be the cause. A school filter or Screen Time's website limits can block an address they don't know. And a preview link from the box on this page stops working after 3 minutes, so add the address under Live URL.

Sources

• File types supported by Seesaw (Seesaw Help Center) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Creative Tools (Seesaw Help Center) (read on November 7, 2026)
• How to use the Creative Canvas (Seesaw Help Center) (read on November 7, 2026)
• How to create, edit, and assign Activities and Assessments (Seesaw Help Center) (read on November 7, 2026)
• How do students and teachers add posts to Seesaw (Seesaw Help Center) (read on November 7, 2026)
• How to use Sample Student (Seesaw Help Center) (read on November 7, 2026)
• iPad Best Practices (Seesaw Help Center) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Seesaw Product Updates 2024 (Seesaw Help Center) (read on November 7, 2026)