Share Paper: Using Intelligent Agents as an Outreach Tool on Brightspace LMS

  1. Galia Fussell, Purdue University Global, United States
  2. Barbara Green, Purdue University Global, United States
Thursday, March 21 4:15-4:30 PM Wilshire A

Abstract: Purdue University Global (PG) is an online public university that focuses mostly on adult learners, who already have extensive life and work experiences and are ready to pursue their educational goals. It is an adult-serving university, and most of the programs are geared toward career-building programs that are delivered online by using Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS). Brightspace has many user-friendly teaching and learning tools, but it also has an automated outreach tool, known as Intelligent Agents (IAs), and this tool helps a professor create customized automated messages to the students, who meet certain criteria that are established by the ...