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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.

  1. Click the New Agent button.

  2. Choose a name for the agent, most likely something to do with what you will have the agent checking.

  3. Add a description and give the agent a category at your own discretion. Both are optional and used for organization purposes.

  4. CPI recommends that the agent be left disabled until it has been through a test-run, so please consider leaving “Agent is enabled” unchecked for now.

  5. Under Scheduling, choose whether the agent will run on a certain schedule or if it is only set to run once.

  6. Select the criteria required for the agent to follow. Options are explained below:

 Click here to view Critera Options

Criteria Options

Role in Classlist - Instructors can choose whether the agent checks every person in the classlist, or can specify a role for the agent to check (i.e. Every student in the class or every TA)

Take Action on Activity - This is where instructors decide what they are having the agent check and report on. The two main options are Login Activity and Course Activity.
Login Activity refers to when someone last logged into Brightspace.
Course Activity refers to when someone last went on the specific course site the agent is in.

Release Conditions - On top of login and course activity, agents can track progress in specific areas of the site by making use of release conditions. For example, agents can be paired with the No submission to folder release condition to gather a report of student who haven’t submitted to a particular assignment. To learn more about Release Conditions and their options, please see Release Conditions in Brightspace

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