Integration · Education
AI agents for Blackboard Learn
Work with a school's Blackboard Learn site: find courses and users, see who is enrolled in a course and which courses a person takes, read a course's content outline, grade columns and a student's grades.
- Actions
- 9
- Read
- 8
- Write
- 1
Actions
What your agents can do in Blackboard Learn
Work with a school's Blackboard Learn site: find courses and users, see who is enrolled in a course and which courses a person takes, read a course's content outline, grade columns and a student's grades, and post course announcements, through a REST application the Learn administrator has approved.
Read 8
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Find courses
Finds courses (and organizations) by part of the name or course ID, by term or availability.
Get a course
Reads one course by its primary ID or another ID with its type, like courseId:MATH101 or externalId:abc: name, description, term, availability, enrollment settings, Ultra status and access link.
List a course's members
Lists who is enrolled in a course, optionally by course role (Student, Instructor, TeachingAssistant, CourseBuilder, Grader, Guest).
Find users
Finds Learn users by part of the user name or family name: each user's id, userName, studentId, name (given, family), contact.email, institutionRoleIds, availability and lastLogin.
List a person's courses
Lists the courses one user is enrolled in, by user ID or userName:jsmith: each membership's courseId, courseRoleId, availability and lastAccessed, with the course's name in course.
List course content
Lists the top-level content of a course (folders, documents, links, assignments, tests).
List grade columns
Lists a course's Grade Center columns (assignments, tests, totals): each column's id, name, displayName, score.possible, grading (type and due date), contentId and availability.
Get a student's grades
Reads one student's grades in a course: for each grade column, the columnId, status, score, displayGrade, text, exempt, feedback and notes.
Write 1
Create, change or send.
Post a course announcement
Posts an announcement to a course's members, with a title and a body (plain text or Blackboard's markup), or saves it as a draft.
A person can approve first
Any write action can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs, so an agent asks before it changes anything.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Enter the sign-in details Blackboard Learn gives you for its API.
What you enter
- Application key
- Secret
Settings
- Learn address
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your Blackboard Learn data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can find courses, get a course or list a course's members in Blackboard Learn, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Let an agent update Blackboard Learn
Have the agent post a course announcement in Blackboard Learn as part of a larger task. Turn on approval and a person signs off on each change first.
- 03
Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Blackboard Learn and Slack: it can find courses in Blackboard Learn and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
Works well with
More Education tools
- Canvas LMS10 actionsList courses, students and teachers, read and create assignments, read submissions and grade or comment on them, post course announcements and send Canvas inbox messages in an institution's Canvas LMS.
- Moodle10 actionsSearch courses, list a course's participants, assignments, submissions and grades, find users, grade assignments and send Moodle messages on an institution's own Moodle site, through its REST web services.
- Google Classroom9 actionsWork with a teacher's Google Classroom classes: list classes, their students and teachers, assignments and student submissions.
- Teachable10 actionsList and read courses, look up students and their course progress, create students, enroll or unenroll them, and read sales transactions in a Teachable school, through the school's Admin API key.
- Thinkific10 actionsList courses and products, find and create students, enroll them in courses, read and change enrollments (progress, completion, expiry), and read orders in a Thinkific school, through the site's Admin API key.
FAQ
Blackboard Learn and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Blackboard Learn?
Yes. The Blackboard Learn connector has 9 actions: 8 read and 1 makes changes. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Blackboard Learn?
Enter the sign-in details Blackboard Learn gives you for its API. You'll need: Application key and Secret. The connection also asks for: Learn address. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Blackboard Learn without asking?
Only if you let it. Its one action that changes data can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs.
Can I use Blackboard Learn in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Blackboard Learn action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Blackboard Learn to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.