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DuckyHelper in Blackboard

DuckyHelper sees Blackboard on your screen and, in early access, works in it with its own cursor to manage courses and course content, post announcements, update gradebook grades, run discussion forums, and enroll users. It's built to ask before it sends or pays, and explains or draws on Blackboard when you want to learn it.

Try asking
  • “List the courses and create a course announcement”
  • “Delete a user in Blackboard”
  • “Show me how to create a new course”

Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask out loud. Doing the work for you is early access on Mac.

Courses in BlackboardDone in 7sExample
List the courses and create a course announcement
  1. Listed the courses in Blackboard
  2. Created a new course
  3. Create a course announcement

It's ready in Blackboard. Nothing goes out until you press Send.

Blackboard
BlackboardNew announcementNeeds your OK
Written from what you asked for. It goes out only when you press Send.

Drawn from Blackboard's own actions · early access on Mac

WHAT TO ASK

Things you can ask it to do in Blackboard

Each one is something Blackboard itself lets you do, said the way you'd ask. Questions about your screen work today; having it do the job is early access on Mac.

Ask about it

Works today

It sees your screen, answers out loud and draws on it.

  • “Explain this course to me”
  • “Where do I find the announcements in Blackboard?”
  • “Show me how to create a new course”
  • “What does this button do?”
  • “Walk me through this screen”

Read and find

Early access

It opens Blackboard and looks things up for you.

  • List the courses
  • List the announcements
  • List the course group users
  • List the gradebook columns
  • List the child courses for a given course
  • List the course gradebook columns
  • Look up the courses for a category
  • Look up the course content
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  • Look up the course contents
  • List the users in a course group
  • Look up the user courses
  • List the course group sets
  • Look up the users from a course
  • List the child nodes
  • List the gradebook columns for users
  • Look up the course nodes
  • Look up the course details
  • Look up an announcement
  • Look up the course task details
  • Look up the course child details
  • Look up the courses for an institutional node
  • Look up a course announcement
  • Look up the course meeting details
  • Look up the gradebook attempts
  • Look up the gradebook column details
  • Look up the course rubric associations
  • Look up a user
  • Read the discussion messages for a course
  • Look up the course gradebook categories
  • List the grade notations for a course
  • Look up a user course
  • Look up the course meetings
  • Look up the course gradebook column attempts
  • Look up the course groups
  • Read the course discussion threads
  • Look up the users in an institutional node
  • Look up the gradebook attempt files
  • Look up the course resources
  • Look up the course content groups
  • Look up the course group sets
  • Look up the course group information
  • Look up the goal sets
  • Look up the toc items
  • Look up the course content children
  • Look up the course content group details
  • Look up the course resource children
  • Look up the course gradebook periods
  • Look up the category details
  • Look up a course category
  • Look up the calendar items
  • Look up the content collection resources
  • Look up the pronouns information
  • Look up a gradebook category
  • Look up the category type details
  • Look up the course gradebook group attempts
  • Look up the goal set categories
  • Look up the coursediscussion details
  • Look up the rubric evaluation details
  • Look up the course alignments
  • Look up a course gradebook attempt
  • Read a discussion message reply
  • Look up the content collection resources children
  • Look up the institutional hierarchy nodes
  • Look up a course list
  • Look up the attendance records
  • Look up the rubric associations for a gradebook columns
  • Look up a user in a course group
  • Look up a user from a course group
  • Look up a course group
  • Look up the institutional node tool information
  • Look up a course attempt file
  • Look up the course message folders
  • Look up the user observers
  • Look up a course grade notation
  • Look up a course resource
  • Look up the children goals
  • Look up the learning goals
  • Look up the lti placements
  • Look up a user gradebook column
  • Look up the user sessions
  • Look up the participants of course message
  • Look up a goal set
  • Look up a course rubric
  • Look up the system info
  • Look up a hierarchy node
  • Look up a course content release criteria
  • Look up the goal set category goals
  • Look up a course content attachment
  • Look up a cross list set
  • Look up a users list
  • Look up a rubric association for a course
  • Look up the catalog category children
  • Look up a goal set category
  • Look up the node admins
  • Look up the user meetings in a course
  • Export a course gradebook attempt file
  • Look up the user grades for a course column
  • Look up the loginas sessions
  • Look up the course content adaptive release rules
  • Look up the calendars
  • Export a course content attachment
  • Look up the proctoring services
  • Look up an attendance record
  • Look up a terms list
  • Look up the observees of user profile
  • Look up a rubric list for a course
  • Look up a goal
  • Look up the goal alignments by goalid
  • Look up the types of goal sets
  • Look up a data source list
  • Look up the learning session data
  • Look up a data source
  • Look up an assessment question
  • Look up a term
  • Look up a lti placement
  • Look up a course meeting download url
  • Read the messages for a course id
  • Look up a last changed grade column for a user
  • Look up the course roles information
  • Look up a rubric evaluation by association
  • Look up a course content adaptive release rule criterion
  • Look up a contentcollection resource
  • Look up a user gradebook for a course
  • List the system roles
  • Look up a task
  • List the institution roles
  • Look up a user avatar by userid
  • Look up a proctoring service
  • Look up a user pronunciation audio
  • Look up an attempt receipt
  • Look up a user criteria from a course content rule
  • Look up a rubric evaluation for an attempt
  • Look up a course content adaptive release group criteria
  • Look up the course column logs
  • Look up the course gradebook logs
  • Look up the system version information
  • Look up the course performance content review status
  • Look up a course role
  • Look up the user nodes for a user id
  • Look up a gradebook entry for a user in a course
  • Look up a rubric evaluation for a group attempt column
  • Look up the upload settings
  • Look up the review status of user in a course content
  • Look up the lti domain details by domainid
  • Look up the assessment questions by course and assessment id
  • Look up the gradebook periods by course and period id
  • Look up a gradebook column by course and column ids
  • Look up a grade attempt by course and column id
  • Look up a system role
  • Look up the privacy policies
  • Look up the lti domain listings
  • Look up a sis dataset log
  • Look up a calendar item by type and id
  • Look up the admin info by nodeid and userid
  • Look up a gradebook schema for a course

Write and send

Early access

It's built to ask before anything is sent or paid.

  • Create a new course
  • Create a class course
  • Create a course announcement
  • Create a system announcement
  • Add a course gradebook column
  • Create the child content in a course
  • Create the course content in a course
  • Copy a course by courseid
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  • Create a course meeting
  • Create a course group
  • Create a group in a course
  • Post a course assessment question
  • Update a child course in a parent
  • Add a course content attachment
  • Post the pronouns details
  • Update a gradebook column
  • Update the course content
  • Add a new gradebook column for a course
  • Create a rubric association in a course
  • Update a course toc item
  • Add a catalog category by type
  • Create a course rubric with details
  • Post a discussion message in a course
  • Copy a course with a specific options
  • Create calendar items
  • Create an institutional hierarchy node
  • Post a discussion message reply
  • Update a course primary node association
  • Post a course message with a bbml support
  • Create a discussion forum in a course
  • Submit a gradebook attempt
  • Create a course group in a course
  • Create a group set
  • Create a rubric evaluation for a course
  • Create a data source
  • Update the course details
  • Post a grade notation to a course gradebook
  • Update the course information
  • Create a new lti placement
  • Add a child node in a hierarchy
  • Update the announcement details
  • Update the course rubric details
  • Update the course meeting details
  • Update a content group association
  • Update the course category details
  • Update the course discussion details
  • Create a grading period in a course gradebook
  • Post the group attempts for a gradebook column
  • Update the system announcement details
  • Update an institution node
  • Update the course information by courseid
  • Create a new user profile
  • Add an adaptive release rule to a course content
  • Update an attendance record
  • Update the course group details
  • Update a grade notation for a course
  • Create an assignment in a course contents
  • Update a rubric evaluation
  • Create new uploads
  • Update the course group information
  • Update a data source
  • Update an assessment question
  • Create an adaptive release criteria by rule
  • Update an adaptiverelease criterion
  • Update the lti placement details
  • Update the term details by termid
  • Update the category details by type
  • Upload a file to an attempt in a gradebook
  • Update the attendance records
  • Create a term with availability and description
  • Update a course content adaptive release group criteria
  • Update the grading period info
  • Create a course gradebook schema
  • Update the discussion message status
  • Update the course message read status
  • Update the course primary node status
  • Update the course content review status
  • Create the lti domain configuration
  • Update the pronoun status
  • Update the attempt status in a gradebook
  • Update a calendar item by type and id
  • Update the group details by course and group id

Manage

Early access

It tidies up and changes things in Blackboard.

  • Delete a course
  • Delete an announcement
  • Delete a course by courseid
  • Delete a course announcement
  • Delete the course content
  • Delete a user
  • Delete a user from a course
  • Delete a course from a category list
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  • Delete a gradebook column
  • Delete a specific course node
  • Update a user in a course group
  • Delete a child course association
  • Delete a course message
  • Delete a discussion message
  • Delete a course meeting
  • Delete a user from a course group
  • Delete a course group
  • Delete a user from a course meetings
  • Delete a course grade notation
  • Delete a group in a course
  • Delete a gradebook attempt file
  • Delete a user from an institutional node
  • Delete a course content group
  • Delete a gradebook period
  • Update an institutional hierarchy user node
  • Delete a course assessment question
  • Delete a course rubric
  • Delete a gradebook column in a course
  • Delete a course content attachment
  • Delete a rubric association
  • Update the user information
  • Update a user observer
  • Delete the user course meetings
  • Delete an attendance record
  • Delete all records in meeting
  • Delete a group set in a course
  • Delete a user observer
  • Delete a data source
  • Delete a lt i placement
  • Delete a term by termid
  • Delete an adaptive release rule criterion
  • Update a user criterion in an adaptive rule
  • Update the user grade details by course
  • Update the grade information for a user
  • Delete a course content adaptive release rule
  • Delete a pronoun
  • Delete an institutional hierarchy node by nodeid
  • Delete a user criterion from a course content rule
  • Update a user enrollment in a course
  • Update the user meeting attendance status
  • Update the admin node roles
  • Delete a category by type and id
  • Delete a calendar item by type and id
  • Delete a lti domain
  • Delete an institution node admin
  • Update the rubric association settings
  • Update the hierarchy node tool settings
  • Update the lti domain configuration
BUILT TO ASK FIRST

It's built to wait for your OK in Blackboard.

When a job ends in “Create a course announcement”, it does the work, and is built to stop with it ready. You see exactly what it wrote and where it goes, then Send, Edit or Deny.

It works in Blackboard signed in as you. If it hits a sign-in, you sign in yourself: it's built not to type your passwords or card numbers.

BlackboardNew announcementNeeds your OK
Written from what you asked for. It goes out only when you press Send.

Example draft · early access on Mac

Why Use DuckyHelper?

Works in Blackboard like you do

  • Early access: it sees Blackboard on your screen and works in it with its own cursor, while you keep using yours
  • Nothing to set up: it works in Blackboard signed in as you
  • Finishes multi-step jobs across Blackboard and your other apps

Built to ask before it sends or pays

  • Built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything
  • Built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you
  • It listens and looks only while the pill is open

Shows you, not just tells you

  • Explains Blackboard out loud and draws right on your screen
  • Works it out with you on a blackboard when you want to learn it

Always there, in every app

  • Press one key in any app and ask out loud: fn on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux
  • Runs jobs on a schedule (early access)
  • For Mac, Windows and Linux

Want it in every app you use?

One account works in every app on your computer. Try it for 10 minutes, no card, then pick a plan.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

On your screen, the way a person at your computer would. Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask about what you see in Blackboard: it answers out loud and can draw on Blackboard to show you where things are. In early access on Mac it also works in Blackboard with its own cursor, signed in as you, while you keep using yours.

For example: “List the courses and create a course announcement” and “Delete a user in Blackboard”. Or ask about what you see: “Show me how to create a new course”. Doing the work for you is in early access on Mac.

No. Open Blackboard and sign in yourself, the way you always do. DuckyHelper works in the window you have open, signed in as you. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you.

It's built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything, and to wait for your yes. It may not recognize every send or payment, so keep an eye on tasks that involve messages or money.

In Blackboard, a job that ends in “Create a course announcement” is built to stop there for your OK: Send, Edit or Deny.

Yes. Press one key and ask out loud. It answers out loud while you keep working, draws on your screen to show you where things are, or works it out with you on a blackboard.

Yes. DuckyHelper works in any app on your computer, so one job can move between Blackboard and the other apps and pages you use.

Doing the work for you is new and in early access on Mac. Asking out loud, drawing on your screen and the blackboard work today on Mac, Windows and Linux.

No. It listens and looks only while the pill is open. When the pill is closed, nothing is heard or seen.

No, there is no charge per app. Try DuckyHelper for 10 minutes with no card. Plus is $20 a month, $14 a month for your first 3 months. See pricing.

Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later), Windows and Linux. Download DuckyHelper.

No. DuckyHelper is made by MingLLM, Inc. and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blackboard. It works in Blackboard the same way you do, on your screen.

Try it in Blackboard.Press one key and ask.

It sees Blackboard, explains it out loud and does the work with you.Try it for 10 minutes, no card.

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Questions and jobs

Do anything

Ask it a question or hand it a job, in any app.

Doing jobs for you is in early access on Mac. Asking works on Mac, Windows and Linux.