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Automate intelligent agents - Desire2Learn Tutorial
From the course: Desire2Learn: Advanced Techniques
Automate intelligent agents
- [Instructor] One of the most useful features of D2L is the Intelligent Agents tool. Intelligent Agents are actions that you configure to happen automatically, once certain conditions occur. For our demo, we'll set up an Intelligent Agent to automatically email students if they haven't logged into the class for a week. To set up an Intelligent Agent, start on the Course Administration page and then scroll down to the Communications section, where you'll see an icon for Intelligent Agents. Give it a click. To create a new agent, select New. The first step is to give your agent a name, such as, in this case, Sample Agent. After this, you can give it a brief description, if you'd like, which is useful if you plan to have many different agents for different purposes. To activate the agent, make sure Agent is enabled is selected, though you might want to wait on that step until you've set up the agent's specifics. Next, set up the Login or Course Activity criteria. Login Activity…