{"id":2525,"date":"2017-11-01T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/?page_id=2525"},"modified":"2022-10-04T18:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:03:04","slug":"intelligent-agents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/intelligent-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class='content-column one_third'><div id=\"bellows-main-intelligentagents\" class=\"bellows bellows-nojs bellows-main bellows-source-menu bellows-align-left bellows-skin-vanilla bellows-type- bellows-expand-current\"><ul id=\"menu-intelligent-agents\" class=\"bellows-nav\" data-bellows-config=\"main\"><li id=\"menu-item-26787\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-home bellows-menu-item-has-children bellows-menu-item-26787 bellows-item-level-0\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Welcome to the Technology Resources Site<\/span><button class=\"bellows-subtoggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Submenu\"><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-expand fa fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-collapse fa fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/button><\/a>\n<ul class=\"bellows-submenu\">\n\t<li id=\"menu-item-26789\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-has-children bellows-menu-item-26789 bellows-item-level-1\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/brightspace-guides\/course-admin\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Course Admin<\/span><button class=\"bellows-subtoggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Submenu\"><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-expand fa fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-collapse fa fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/button><\/a>\n\t<ul class=\"bellows-submenu\">\n\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-26791\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-has-children bellows-menu-item-26791 bellows-item-level-2\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/intelligent-agents\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Intelligent Agents<\/span><button class=\"bellows-subtoggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Submenu\"><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-expand fa fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-collapse fa fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/button><\/a>\n\t\t<ul class=\"bellows-submenu\">\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-27309\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-27309 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/intelligent-agents-creating-agents\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Creating Agents<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-27311\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-27311 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/intelligent-agents-email-settings\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Modyfying Email Settings<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-27315\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-27315 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/intelligent-agents-replace-strings\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Using Replace Strings<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-27313\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-27313 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/intelligent-agents-practice-run\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Practice Run<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-27389\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-27389 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/intelligent-agents-use-scenarios\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Use Scenarios<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div><br><div class='content-column two_third last_column'><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Are &#8220;Intelligent Agents&#8221;?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Intelligent Agents are a Brightspace tool that instructors can use to monitor students&#8217; course activity without having to check on each student\u2019s progress manually. Intelligent agents can automatically identify students who have (or have not) completed certain course tasks and can send personalized emails to those students. They can be used to both recognize student achievement (e.g., a high score on a quiz) and warn of potential problems (e.g., lack of online activity or poor performance on a quiz). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To create an agent, instructors need to specify the type of student activity they want the agent to monitor, schedule the agent to run, and decide whether the agent should send out emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Can I Use Them in My Course? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructors can use intelligent agents to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Welcome students to the course when they log in for the first time,<\/li><li>Reach out to students who have not accessed the course in x number of days,<\/li><li>Remind students that they have not yet viewed a particular content topic,<\/li><li>Inform students that they missed a deadline on an assignment or a quiz,<\/li><li>Congratulate students on a high grade on a quiz or an assignment,<\/li><li>Contact students who achieved a low grade on a quiz or assignment and remind them of office hours and other available supports,<\/li><li>Acknowledge participation in a discussion forum, or<\/li><li>Send a congratulatory message to students who have completed the last module or quiz in a course.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Are the Benefits of Using Agents? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Using intelligent agents can be beneficial for both instructors and students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Agents are an efficient way of monitoring course activity (no need for manual checks on student progress).<\/li><li>They allow instructors to easily identify students who may need extra support.<\/li><li>Using agents allows instructors to devote time to other course activities and tasks, such as providing individualized feedback to students, where needed.<\/li><li>Because emails sent by agents can be personalized, they can boost student engagement (for information on how to personalize emails, see section on Replace Strings).<\/li><li>Agents can be created at the beginning of the semester, and then \u2018act\u2019 on behalf of the instructor throughout the term.<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","page","type-page","status-publish"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27407,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2525\/revisions\/27407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}