Instructure recently released its IgniteAI Agent for Canvas Admins, and will soon be making it available to teachers of Canvas courses. I wanted to have a conversation with this upcoming feature update, so I made a screen recording.
Couple of things to keep in mind:
This is a 17-minute video without narration. You’ll see a lot of mouse wiggling as I attempt to emphasize important information. I recommend you view this video full-screen on a large monitor. You might not enjoy the small mobile phone viewing experience.
This is a raw recording of my conversation and IgniteAI Agent’s responses. There was no AI manipulation (ha!) of what you see in the video.
The Canvas Beta instance is a bit slower than our usual Canvas Production environment. Thus, the Agent’s “Thinking” was taking quite some time in some cases. The jumps you see in the video are me pausing recording until it completed thinking…then I resumed the screen recording.
I’m a fan of Erik Satie’s Trois Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes.
Topics I asked IgniteAI Agent about:
Student participation in my demo course.
Creating an announcement.
Creating a Group Set and adding students to groups.
Hiding unpublished assignments in the gradebook.
Providing a student additional time for a quiz.
…and other questions.
Thanks very much for your time and checking out this lengthy video,
-Chris
