Downloading and Printing Assessments (SCHOOLS) – Ponder Support

Last Updated: April 2026

Intended Audience: For schools who print Ponder Paper assessments.

Context: Printing Ponder Paper assessments require a special tool because each assessment is unique to each student. Therefore, to help staple the assessments correctly and efficiently, we created the Ponder Paper Print Tool app. The app has the ability to read the embedded information within each PDF link and automatically staple the assigned number of pages when printing.

FIRST TIME USER ONLY:

Follow this article on how to download and install the Print Tool app

Printing Ponder Paper assessments

To navigate to the Downloading PDF Page, login to Paper, select School view
Enter the school name and assessment name, click Generate PDFs for printing
You should see the generated assessments in blue. Click the Download button on the top-right hand corner to go to the Download page.
On the Download Page, copy the link of the PDF you want to print.

Important note about expiring download links:

For security reasons, we currently set the default for download links to expire after 30 days.
For example, if someone were to access a tracker with links after the exams have been printed, they could open the PDFS and view student names, school info, etc.
To help mitigate that risk, we chose a 30-day expiration period.

If you need to extend the expiration period, links should be re-copied from the Downloads page, which automatically gives them a new 30-day window.
Open the print app. Make sure the version is 0.8.3 or above. Click Print a PDF.
Select the printer you've previously added. To add a new printer, go to the top of this article.
Paste the link by right-clicking on the print app [note: do not use the Ctrl+V keyboard shortcut, use your mouse or trackpad only]
Select Test to test printing 2 packets first. Confirm the printer received and completed this test print job.
Next, use one of two options to print: select the Chunk or All option.
- Use the "Chunk" option if you want your printer to print a certain number of packets at a time. This option is helpful if the PDF is too large to print in 1 print job. This will instead send multiple mini print jobs to the printer all at once (e.g. for IAs)
- Use the "All" option if you want your printer to print all packets in one print job. This option is helpful if the PDF is smaller and can be printed in 1 print job (e.g. PPQs)
Repeat Step 4-9 for all the packets you need to print.
Once printed make sure of the following:
- Check that the first page of first packet matches the listed QR code
  - This is to verify that the correct assessment is being packed
- Check that the first page of the second packet matches the listed QR code
  - This is to verify that the substapling is done at the correct pages
- Check that the last page of the last packet matches the QR code
  - This is to verify that we have completed the print job for the assessment