Intelligent Agents
#Intelligent Agents

Intelligent Agents

Intelligent Agents monitor a course to find an activity that matches certain criteria set by an instructor.

You can set monitoring criteria, such as login activity, course activity and release conditions.  You can set intelligent agents manually or set them to run on a schedule. A few examples uses  of Intelligent Agents are:

  • Emailing users with grades below a certain level.
  • Checking for users that have not logged in within a specified number of days.
  • Sending an email to students that have completed a checkpoint in the course.

Access the Intelligent Agents tool by clicking Course Admin on the course navbar and select Intelligent Agent. 

Create an Intelligent Agent:

  1. On a course navbar, click Course Admin.
  2. Click Intelligent Agents.
  3. On the Agent List page, click New.
  4. On the New Agent page, enter a name.
  5. Expand the Edit Description label and enter a description.
  6. If you want the agent to be active, select the Agent is enabled check box.
  7. Under Criteria > Role in Classlist, do one of the following:
    • If you want the intelligent agent to be applicable to all roles in the Classlist, select the All users visible in the Classlist check box.
    • If you want the intelligent agent to be applicable to select roles, select the Users with specific roles check box and select the respective roles.
  8. If you want your agent to target users’ login habits, under Criteria > Login Activity, enter your criteria. Note: Login activity refers to logins at the platform level.
  9. If you want your agent to target users’ course habits, under Criteria > Course Activity, enter your criteria.
  10. If you want your agent to run when a specific existing condition has been met, under Criteria > Release Conditions, click Attach Existing. Select the check box for any condition you want to attach and click Attach.
  11. If you want your agent to run when a specific new condition has been met, under Criteria > Release Conditions, click Create and Attach. Select a Condition Type from the drop-down list. Complete any additional Condition Details that appear and click Create.
  12. Under Actions > Repetition, select how often you want the agent to take action.
  13. If your role has the Use Agent Enrollment Actions and Perform Unenroll permissions, you can set your agent to perform an enrollment or unenrollment action:
    • Under Change User Enrollments, select the Change user enrollments when the criteria are satisfied check box.
    • From the Enrollment Action drop-down list, select the action you want your agent to perform and select the course.
    • If you want to Enroll user in a course, select an available course from the dialogue. Only courses you have permission to enroll in will be shown.
    • From the New Role drop-down list, select what role the user will be enrolled with when the agent criteria is satisfied.
  14. If you want the agent to send an email when the set criteria are satisfied, under Actions > Send an Email, select the Send an email when the criteria are satisfied check box and enter your email details and relevant attachments.
  15. If you want to schedule how frequently Brightspace Learning Environment evaluates the agent criteria, under Scheduling, select the Use Schedule check box. Click Update Schedule and set your scheduling details.
    Note: Scheduled intelligent agents stop running and are automatically disabled if the course is inactive, past its end date, or deleted. You can still set up a practice run or a manual run of an intelligent agent at any time in a course with a passed end date.
  16. Click Save and Close.

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