BlackBoard Bot
  • 18th May 2020 •
  •  1 min read

This is a Python bot I made to automatically join my online classes on the Blackboard Collaborate Ultra platform.

I made it to avoid a really boring class of mine where the teacher almost never asked us questions.

It works using the Selenium Webdriver to emulate a student actually using a web-browser to join the class.

It is kinda rough around the edges since all the steps to join a class are hardcoded i.e. popups that may occur are not accounted for. If it fails to find an element, there is no failsafe. However, "it works for me".

I used said bot in conjuction with a cronjob to run it everytime I had class.

Checkout the code here.