CloudDeakin is Deakin University’s cloud learning environment. The Intelligent Agents tool sits within the main learning management system in CloudDeakin. Intelligent Agents allows staff to automatically generate a personalized email to various conditions that may result from within your unit. Intelligent Agents has proven to contribute to assisting with student retention and engagement. This is a practical session where participants will engage in hands-on design and set up of intelligent agents based on good practice examples and to effectively use intelligent agents to support their teaching in the cloud environment.

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By completing this session, staff should be able to:

• Identify potential uses of Intelligent Agents as one of many techniques for assisting with student retention and engagement.
• Identify and activate good practice Intelligent Agent examples in CloudDeakin unit sites.
• Understand the steps required to set up Intelligent Agents.
• Understand the various conditions that could be used send out Intelligent Agents.
• Understand how to personalize Intelligent Agent emails.
• Manage Intelligent Agents in a CloudDeakin unit site including creating, activating, modifying and removing agents.
• Know where to get help and support.

Useful Resources

• Deakin Teach Assist website Intelligent Agents
• Faculty of Business and Law CloudDeakin Minimum Standards (pdf) 2017