About Intelligent Agents

Intelligent agents monitor an org unit to find activity that matches criteria that you set. The criteria that the agents search for are:

• Login activity.
• Course activity.
• Release conditions in Learning Environment.

You can use existing release conditions, or create new ones for your agents. The agent then sends a separate email to the user that created the agent when it finds users matching its criteria.

You can run agents manually or set them to run on a schedule; daily, weekly, monthly, or annually.

When you run an agent manually, it sends a confirmation email to the user that requested or set up the agent. This email lists the following information:

• Org unit code and name.
• Which agent ran.
• Time and date the request was submitted.
• Time and date the request was finished.
• Whether the agent took action.
• Any error text.

Example uses for intelligent agents include:

• Email for users with grades below a certain level.
• Check for users that have not logged in within a specific number of days.
• Check for users that view a specific content topic.

Access the Intelligent Agents tool

Do one of the following:

• Click Intelligent Agents in the Course Administration widget.
• Click Edit Course on the navbar, then click Intelligent Agents.

Intelligent Agents help topics

Teaching

• Creating, running, editing, and deleting intelligent agents
• Replace strings for intelligent agents