Tuesday, August 16
11:20 am – 12:20 pm
Make Your Course “Smart”: Save Time and Engage Your Students Using
Automation Tools in D2L
Do you wish you had more time? Or that your students read your emails? This workshop will introduce Intelligent Agents, a powerful tool inside D2L that can both save you time and personalize course communications for your students. Intelligent Agents can automatically identify students who meet certain criteria in your course and send them a message tailored to their current learning needs in the course. For instance, you can set an IA to identify students who scored below a particular threshold on an assignment. It will then automatically send a message with helpful resources or reminders about course grading policies to students who meet those
criteria. You can even set up IAs to send messages of praise for a job well done! While writing each of these emails on your own would normally take hours, IAs allow you to add a greater sense of personal care and connection to your online course, with minimal time invested.
Join us to learn how to:
• Set up Intelligent Agents,
• Script Intelligent Agent messages, to improve student motivation and
engagement,
• Streamline or automate other course communications.
Workshop Organizer: Dr. Anna Everett, Online Learning
