Intelligent agents allow instructors to generate reports and communicate with students in regards to various tasks and activities completed on a Brightspace course site. Intelligent agents can track criteria such as log-in activity, course activity, and any options offered by release conditions (Learn more about Release Conditions from our Release Conditions in Brightspace documentation). While this can be helpful for keeping track of student activity in a large course, intelligent agents should not be misconstrued as a way to monitor student engagement within a course.
Creating an Intelligent Agent
The Intelligent Agents area can be accessed by clicking Course Tools on the navbar, and selecting Intelligent Agents from the drop-down menu. From here, new Intelligent Agents can be created for the course site.
Click the New Agent button.
Choose a name for the agent, most likely something to do with what you will have the agent checking.