Bryon Carpenter 🦋 (@bryoncar.bsky.social)

Creating AI Agent Safeguards (for now) through Strategically Designed Strategies to Deliver Assignments and Assessments As you prepare your syllabus for the upcoming semester, a question I’ve explored before looms large. In a previous post, "The Death of the LMS in Higher Ed," I argued that its role as a simple repository for assignments is becoming obsolete. With AI agents now ubiquitous, how do we prevent the LMS from becoming a mere drop-box for bot-generated work from an autonomous AI Agent? The solution isn't to fully abandon the LMS (for now), but to evolve its purpose and create humanizing instructional barriers in the tasks and assessments we deliver to our students. This post presents a few practical strategies (I am implementing this term in my own graduate-level course) to revitalize our courses by shifting the focus from the final product, which AI can generate in seconds, to the learning process, which it cannot. This is going to my attempt to defend against students utilizing AI Agents. While I know this may not be one-hundred percent effective, I do have a hunch it will mitigate AI Agents to a degree, at least for the time being, this semester. http://matthewrhoads.com/2025/08/05/creating-ai-agent-safeguards-for-now-through-strategically-designed-strategies-to-deliver-assignments-and-assessments/