Scanning a class set

Before you scan

• Take out staples and paper clips.
• Pages can go in any order, upside down or sideways. Blank sheets are fine: Paper Loop leaves them out.
• Put a torn or crumpled sheet on the glass by itself, or take a phone photo of it instead.

Copier settings

The names vary. Look under Scan, Scan to Email, or Send.

• File type: PDF, all pages in one file (“multi-page PDF”).
• Resolution: 300 dpi.
• Color: black and white. Light pencil? Use grayscale.
• Sides: two-sided only if the worksheet is.
• Size: Letter (or Auto), at 100%. No “fit to page”.

Too big to email?

Many copiers and school email accounts stop at 10 to 25 MB. A class set in black and white is usually a few MB; grayscale can be ten times that. If the email doesn’t arrive:

• scan in black and white, or
• scan in batches of 10 to 15 pages. Give Claude all the batches together; Paper Loop puts the pages back in order.

Getting it to Claude

• From email or Google Drive: download the PDF, then drag it into your Claude chat, or into the class’s folder if you use Cowork. Say “Mark this.”
• Several files for one class (batches, or fronts and backs): give them all at once.
• Several classes: one file each, and tell Claude which class is which.
• Name files by class, worksheet and date: P3 water cycle 2026-11-04.pdf. Never a student’s name.

No copier? Use a phone

• iPhone: in the Notes or Files app, choose Scan Documents. It makes one PDF of many pages.
• Android: in the Google Drive app, tap +, then Scan.
• Each page flat, in good light, with all four corner squares in the picture and no glare on them.

What happens to the scan

Paper Loop finds each page by its corner squares and the code beside the title. Claude looks only at the ID numbers and the answer boxes, not the rest of the page. Any page it can’t use comes back on a short list, with the reason.