new intelligences for intelligent agents - webinar slides
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New Intelligences for Intelligent Agents
September 2016
Barry Dahl, Sr. Community Manager
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Resources for Intelligent Agents
Community wiki: bit.ly/D2Lagents
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What’s New with Intelligent Agents?
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Definitions of Intelligent Agents
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What is an Intelligent Agent?
• An intelligent agent is a software that assists people and acts on their behalf.
• Intelligent agents work by allowing people to delegate work that they could have done, to the agent software.
• Source: Hanh Tran & Thaovy Tran
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What is an Intelligent Agent in D2L?
Intelligent Agents can assist instructors, administrators, and students by providing an automated notification when defined activity occurs in a course (or not) or when there is a lack of login or course entry.
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Creating an Intelligent Agent in D2L
I assume that you already know how to create an agent.If not, go to this URL to learn how:
bit.ly/D2Lagents
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"Not" Release Conditions
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Release Conditions• Definition: Release conditions are conditional
requirements that restrict access or visibility to specific content, resources or areas within the Brightspace Learning Environment. Users must satisfy the conditions before the restrictions are removed.
• New! Additional release conditions have been added for students who have NOT satisfied certain restrictions.
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Wait. What? • Starting with the February 2016 release (10.5.6),
the new NOT release conditions are available to institutions on Continuous Delivery• Sorry, they won’t be available to users with older versions of
the Learning Environment.
• If you’re on Continuous Delivery (monthly updates), you won’t see the new conditions until your institution puts 10.5.6 into production.
• New release conditions are ON by default.
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Variables that can trigger the release of something else • Awards earned • Checklist completion• Checklist item• Classlist enrollment• Competencies
• Including Learning Objectives• Content topics
• Discussion topics• Dropbox• Grade items• Quizzes
• Including score on specific questions
• Rubric scores• Surveys
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Items that can be released
• Awards• Checklist• Content modules • Content topics• Custom widgets• Discussion forums • Discussion topics
• Dropbox• Grade items• Grade categories• News items• Quizzes• Surveys
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Examples Using NOT Conditions in Intelligent Agents
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Example 1: Intelligent agent formissing an assessment deadline
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Example 1: email to instructor as notification
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Example 2: Intelligent agent for doing one thing but not another
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Example 2:
email to student as notification of missed activity
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Example 3: Alert to possible suspicious activity
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Example 3: email to instructor with student info
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Caution: Newly developed Release Conditions might not include the NOT option
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Added in March 2016, Version 10.5.7
• Release conditions related to Awards – Badges and Certificates
• Example: Release Content, News, etc. for someone who has earned a particular badge or certificate.
• NOTE!! This does NOT include release conditions for someone who has NOT earned a particular award.
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Example 4. Intelligent Agent emails student about Award earned – Step One, Create Award
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Example 4. Intelligent Agent emails student about Award earned
Step Two, Attach Award Release Conditions
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Example 4. Intelligent Agent emails student about Award earned – Step Three, Create Intelligent Agent
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Example 4. Intelligent Agent emails student about Award earned – Step Four, Write Intelligent Agent Email
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Example 4. Intelligent Agent emails student about Award earned
Step Five, Run Intelligent Agent
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New Features for Intelligent Agents
“New” is a relative term, so let’s be specific.
These seven features were included in the August 2016 LE release, or 10.6.4
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New Feature 1 of 7
Not sure what your agent will do? Take it out for a spin – or Practice Run
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New Feature 2 of 7
Want to see who has triggered it in the past? Check out the History Page (includes Practice Runs)
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New Feature 2 of 7 – Longer History
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New Feature 3 of 7
Results of Last Run displays on Agent home page
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New Feature 4 of 7
Customizable From: name
and
Reply-To: email addresses
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New Feature 5 of 7
• Previously a 4,000-character limit on email text. • Now unlimited.
No graphic needed – I think you get it.
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New Feature 6 of 7
• The Agent Name field in an Intelligent Agent previously truncated to 50 characters.
• It now has an available length of 128 characters.
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New Feature 7 of 7Users can now copy Intelligent Agents within the same course from a new context menu item for each agent listed in the Agent List.
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These changes implemented at least ten PIE items
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Current PIE Items
• D2835 - Intelligent Agent notifications to include {MatchingCriteria} as a replacement string (17)
• D858 - "Digest" Email for Intelligent Agent Completion (for instructors) (16)
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Sanity Check – Does it Make Sense?
• Use Intelligent Agents when there isn’t a better way of communicating:
• Can a D2L Notification work better?• Can a News Announcement work better?• Can a personally crafted email work better?• Would a discussion board posting work better?
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The End is Near
Q & A