--- title: "Open your homework with Eddy | DuckyHelper" url: "https://duckyhelper.com/features/homework-files/" description: "Open your worksheet, slides or a photo of your homework in Eddy. You both see the same page; Eddy writes a hint beside the question and checks your answer." updated: "2026-10-09" --- Eddy, in the Mac app # Open your homework with Eddy Bring the actual worksheet. In Eddy, click Open a file and pick your homework: a PDF, a Word file, slides, a spreadsheet or a photo of the page. It opens as a page you and Eddy both see. Eddy reads the questions, writes a short hint beside the one you are on, and checks what you write. It gives hints first and never just says the answer. [Download for Mac](https://duckyhelper.com/download/)[See every feature](https://duckyhelper.com/features/) Hints beside the question ## A hint where you need it. Say let's look at question 3, or just start on it. Eddy reads the question on your page and writes a short hint right beside it, in handwriting, like a tutor leaning over your desk: which one changes on the Moon? Ask for more and the hints get bigger. The answer is yours to write. [Guide: Work on your homework with Eddy](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/eddy/homework/) Open it three ways Open a file on Eddy's start page, or Cmd + O. The + in the bar: Work on it with Eddy, then Open a file or Take a photo. Or drop or paste a file, or a Google link, into Eddy. A photo of a paper worksheet Take a photo of a page of your homework and it opens the same way, ready to write on. A Google Doc from class Paste the link. The file has to be shared with anyone who has the link, so Eddy can open it. You answer, Eddy checks ## You write it. Eddy checks it. Write your answer on the page, by typing or with the pen. Eddy reads what you wrote and tells you if it holds up: yes, mass stays the same on the Moon. If it does not, you get the next hint, not the answer. Files it opens ## The homework you actually have. Not a retyped question, the page itself, with your teacher's wording and diagrams. ### PDF and Word Worksheets, problem sets and essay drafts. ### Slides and sheets Lecture slides and spreadsheets. Charts and SmartArt inside slides are left out. ### Photos Take a photo of a paper worksheet, or open a picture of one. ### Google files Paste the link of a file shared with anyone who has it. On the page ## Write on it like paper. Both of you see and write on the same page. ### Pen and highlighter Write, circle and highlight, then undo or erase. ### Text Type your answer right on the page. ### Zoom, rotate, find Get close to a small diagram, turn a sideways photo, find a word. ### Ask Eddy Select any part of the page and ask about it. ## Open it. Try it. Check it. How homework with Eddy goes. 1. 1. Open your file Open a file, Cmd + O, or take a photo. 2. 2. Start on a question Eddy reads it with you. 3. 3. Get a hint beside it Short, written next to the question. Never the answer. 4. 4. Write your answer Eddy checks it and tells you why. Files up to 50 MB. Old.doc,.ppt and.xls files are refused with how to save them in the newer format. ## Hints first, on purpose. An answer you copy is gone by the test. A hint that gets you to write it yourself is not. That is why Eddy writes the hint beside the question and leaves the answer to you, on every file you open. The learning science behind it: [Show a worked example first](https://duckyhelper.com/research/principles/worked-examples/). [Hints first, not answers](https://duckyhelper.com/features/hints-not-answers/) ## How to use it ## Frequently asked questions ### Can I upload my homework PDF to an AI tutor? Yes. In Eddy, click Open a file, or press Cmd + O, and pick your PDF. It opens as a page you and Eddy both see and write on. Eddy reads the questions, writes a hint beside the one you are on and checks what you write. ### Will Eddy just give me the answers? No. Eddy gives hints first, writes a short hint beside the question, and checks what you wrote. It never just says the answer. If you are still stuck, the next hint goes a bit further, and the writing stays yours. ### What files can I open? PDFs, Word files, slides, spreadsheets and photos, up to 50 MB each, plus Google files shared with anyone who has the link. Old.doc,.ppt and.xls files are refused, with how to save them again. Charts, SmartArt and video inside slides are left out. ### Can it help with an essay in Google Docs? Yes, if the doc is shared with anyone who has the link: paste the link into Eddy and it opens as a page. Eddy reads it with you, answers your questions about it and gives hints, but the writing stays yours. [Essay writing help](https://duckyhelper.com/for/essay-writing-help/) has more. ### Does it work on a school Chromebook? Not right now: DuckyHelper is a Mac app (macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon). There is no Chromebook or web version. On a Mac, open a file from your Downloads or Drive in the Eddy tab, or a photo of a paper worksheet. ## More features ### Eddy writes and draws step by step in time with its voice, then hands you a your-turn Eddy works it out on a blackboard, writing and drawing step by step in time with its voice, then gives you a your-turn and checks your answer. ### A picture made for your question, labelled as Eddy explains; tap any part to ask about it Ask Eddy to show you and a picture made for your question comes into focus, labelled as Eddy explains. Tap any part to ask about it, or change it. ### Wikipedia, books and science pages in a clean reader; Eddy quotes only what it read, with numbered sources Read Wikipedia, classic books and science pages with Eddy in a clean reader. Eddy quotes only paragraphs it read, with numbered sources, and reads aloud. ### Replay any Eddy lesson exactly as it happened, at any speed, then pick it up again Replay any Eddy lesson from History exactly as it happened, at 1x, 1.5x or 2x, then ask Eddy about it and pick up from there. Your own voice is never kept. ### Eddy opens a page in a tab and points, highlights, scrolls and clicks where you can watch Ask Eddy to open a site and it opens in a tab where Eddy points, highlights, scrolls and clicks with its own cursor while you watch. School sites work too. ### Say quiz me: tap, type math or answer true or false, and every miss comes with why Say quiz me and DuckyHelper writes a quick quiz on what you are learning: tap, type math or answer true or false, and every miss comes with why. ## Keep reading ### Homework help: one hint at a time, and your own work checked Homework help in any subject that leaves the work to you: a tutor that points at your mistake, gives one hint at a time and checks what you wrote. ### Essays: feedback on your own draft, never the essay written for you Essay help that keeps the writing yours: a tutor reads your draft, asks about your thesis, marks what is unclear and helps you plan. It never writes it for you. ### Eddy: the voice tutor in the DuckyHelper Mac app's Eddy tab Eddy is the voice tutor in the DuckyHelper Mac app: talk out loud and it teaches on a blackboard, with labelled pictures, quizzes and your own homework file. ## Bring tonight's homework Open the Eddy tab in the Mac app, click Open a file and start on question 1. [Download for Mac](https://duckyhelper.com/download/) [See what it does](https://duckyhelper.com/features/) The Mac app needs Apple silicon and macOS 14 Sonoma or later. There is no Chromebook, Windows or web version right now.