Learn Helperbird
Turn on learn mode and the site becomes the training ground. Work the tools on a real page, and watch the page notice you doing it.
There is no multiple choice and no pass mark. You prove you can work the tool by working the tool, on this page, with the extension you already have.
Everything here stays in this browser. Your name, your answers and your progress are saved in this browser's local storage on this device. They are never sent to Helperbird or to anyone else — there is no account, no upload and no record of your progress anywhere but this computer. This page can see Helperbird features running on Helperbird pages you have open; that is how a challenge ticks itself. It can see nothing at all on any other website, and it sends nothing anywhere.
An action you take on another website is invisible to this page. That is why every challenge either happens on a Helperbird page or is marked as self-reported — and the certificate prints which is which.
Step 2 · optional
These go on your certificate and nowhere else. Leave them blank if you would rather write them in by hand after printing.
Step 3 · this is the start button
Turn this on and a progress bar follows you across the site while you work. Turn it off any time; nothing is lost.
Built for a desktop or laptop browser with the Helperbird extension. On an iPad or phone the challenges still run, but the page cannot watch the extension work there, so checks switch to confirm-it-yourself.
7 challenges 600 XPFree plan
Checks by: Detected
Confirm Helperbird is installed and running in this browser.
Firefox and Safari give every profile a different, random address for an extension, so there is no fixed file this page can ask for. On those browsers this one is self-reported, and the certificate says so.
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Checks by: Detected
On this page, switch the font to OpenDyslexic or Lexend, then open up the letter spacing. Watch the page change under you.
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Checks by: Detected
Put a color overlay over this page, then bring up a reading ruler or line focus and run it down a paragraph.
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Checks by: Detected
This one sends you away. Open Reading Mode on the help article that explains Reading Mode — the bar comes with you and ticks the moment it happens. Or stay here and hide the images instead; either finishes it.
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Checks by: Detected
Open the Getting started guide, then come back and start one of the training videos on this page.
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Checks by: Self-reported
Select a paragraph on this page and have Helperbird read it aloud. Then tell us one word the voice got wrong — hearing where synthetic speech fails a reader is the real skill.
Why this one is self-reported: Read aloud plays through the browser's own speech engine, not through this page. We cannot hear it, so we will not pretend to.
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Reflection · gates the certificate
No XP for this one. You cannot print without it.
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6 challenges 600 XPHelperbird Pro
Level 2 uses Pro features. You can still finish every challenge here by watching how it works instead — that earns half the points and an Observed stamp on your certificate, and it is a real way to finish. If you would rather run them yourself, Helperbird Pro is $30 a year. See what Pro includes.
Checks by: Detected
Highlight two separate sentences on this page, then leave one sticky note on it.
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Checks by: Self-reported
Summarize a long article with Helperbird, then paste its first line into the box here.
Why this one is self-reported: Summarize runs in the extension's own popup and reader window. Nothing it does is written into this page.
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Checks by: Detected
Turn on Word Prediction, then click into your Reflection box below and type a few words to see the suggestions appear.
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Checks by: Witnessed
Dictate your name into the name field with Voice Typing instead of typing it.
Why this one is witnessed, not detected: This page sees text land in the field, but not how it got there. Dictation, a paste and fast typing all look the same to us — so dictating earns Witnessed, and the button below only ever earns Self-reported.
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Checks by: Self-reported
Open Settings, then Beta, and turn on "Make Google Slides readable". Open a Slides deck and see it work.
Why this one is self-reported: This happens in the extension's own settings and then on docs.google.com. Neither is this page, and this page can see neither.
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Reflection · gates the certificate
No XP. You cannot print the Level 2 certificate without it.
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0 of 1200 XP
| Standard | XP |
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| Foundation | 0–399 |
| Proficient | 400–799 |
| Advanced | 800–999 |
| Expert | 1000–1200 |
Printing uses your browser's own print dialog, so you can send it to a printer or choose Save as PDF. Nothing is uploaded to produce it.
Finish Level 1 and its reflection to print.
Helperbird Academy
Certificate of Completion
This certifies that
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Academy Learner| Challenge | Evidence | Result |
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No certificate yet. Finish Level 1 and its reflection on helperbird.com/academy/, then print from that page.
Your name, your answers and your progress live in this browser's local storage on this device only. Nothing is sent anywhere, and we hold no copy to restore.
The challenges in this course were designed by Elisa Wern, Lead Occupational Therapist and AT Specialist, RESNA-certified, Alachua County Public Schools.