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My agent listed every empty course before the semester and caught one open too early

He directs academic tech at a university. Every semester some instructors never set up their courses, so students walk into empty course pages. A day after signing up, he had the AI build a CSV of upcoming courses with no content, or where the instructor has never entered the course. The list also told him one course was already open to students when courses should not be open yet, so he closed it.

How it works

  1. The AI checks upcoming courses in the system
  2. Builds a CSV of courses with no content or an instructor who never entered
  3. Flags one course already open to students too early
  4. He closes that course

Why it’s worth knowing

It flagged a problem he had not asked about: a course open to students before it should have been.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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