Desire2Learn 9.0

Intelligent Agents

The Intelligent Agents tool allows you to let your students (and you) know how they are doing in your class. For example, you can set up an intelligent agent that emails students who have not logged into your course for a certain period of time, or one that emails students with grades below a certain level.

Creating an Intelligent Agent
Editing an Intelligent Agent
Deleting an Intelligent Agent
Running an Intelligent Agent

Creating an Intelligent Agent

From the Course Home page, on the Navigation bar, click EDIT COURSE
The Course Administration page appears.
In the Tools section, click INTELLIGENT AGENTS
The Agent List pane appears.
Click NEW AGENT
The New Agent pane appears.
In the Agent Name text box, type a name
OPTIONAL: In the Description text box, type a description of the agent.
To have the agent monitor login activity,
1. Select Take action when the following login criteria are satisfied
  HINT: An option is selected when a checkmark appears before it.
2. Select one of the Login Activity options
  HINT: An option is selected when the circle before it is dark.
3. In the text box of the selected option, type the desired number of days
To have the agent monitor something else,
1. In the Release Conditions section, click CREATE AND ATTACH
  The Create a New Release Condition dialog box appears.
2. From the Condition Type pull-down menu, select a condition type
  More options will appear in the Condition Details section.
3. Make the desired Condition Details selections
4. Click CREATE
  The dialog box closes; the newly created release condition appears in the Release Conditions section.
Select an action repetition option
To have the intelligent agent run automatically,
1. Select Use Schedule
  NOTE: If you do not select this option, you will have to manually run the agent.
2. Click UPDATE SCHEDULE
  The Update Agent Schedule dialog box appears.
3. In the Repeats Every text box, type a number
  NOTE: To use a unit of time other than days, select one from the Repeats pull-down menu.
4. In the Repeats Every text box, type a number
  NOTE: To use a unit of time other than days, select one from the Repeats pull-down menu.
5. OPTIONAL: To have the agent start running after a certain date, select Has Start Date » choose a date
6. OPTIONAL: To have the agent stop running after a certain date, select Has Stop Date » choose a date
  HINT: Choose a date at the end of the semester.
7. Click UPDATE
  The dialog box closes; the Schedule section reflects your changes.
Type the desired text for the email
Click SAVE
The Edit Agent pane appears.

Editing an Intelligent Agent

Once you have created an intelligent agent, you can change how often it runs, the email, and its criteria.

From the Course Home page, on the Navigation bar, click EDIT COURSE
The Course Administration page appears.
In the Tools section, click INTELLIGENT AGENTS
The Agent List pane appears.
Click on the name of an agent
The Edit Agent pane appears.
Make any desired changes
HINT: See Creating an Intelligent Agent for options.
Click SAVE
Your changes are saved.

Deleting an Intelligent Agent

After an agent has served its purpose, you may want to delete it.

From the Course Home page, on the Navigation bar, click EDIT COURSE
The Course Administration page appears.
In the Tools section, click INTELLIGENT AGENTS
The Agent List pane appears.
For the agent you wish to delete, click DELETE
A confirmation dialog box appears.
Click DELETE
The agent list refreshes.

Manually Running an Intelligent Agent

Although you can schedule an intelligent agent to run automatically, you can also run intelligent agents manually.

From the Course Home page, on the Navigation bar, click EDIT COURSE
The Course Administration page appears.
In the Tools section, click INTELLIGENT AGENTS
The Agent List pane appears.
For the desired intelligent agent, click RUN
A confirmation dialog box appears.
Click RUN
The Manually Run Agent Confirmation pane appears.
NOTE: When the agent has finished running, you will receive an email with the subject line Agent Completed.