# Module 2 Overview

## Theme

Robotic process automation basics

## Essential Question

How do rule-based and AI-assisted automation differ?

## Module Components

- `Book prose`: conceptual framing, domain scenario, methods, and failure modes
- `Assignment`: evidence-backed production of a specific artifact
- `Slides`: presentation sequence for seminar or lecture delivery
- `Narration`: spoken version of the slide flow
- `Instructor notes`: facilitation plan, discussion prompts, and grading cues
- `Rubric`: criteria for evaluating the module artifact
- `Notebook`: executable lab aligned with the module theme using synthetic process-event records with cycle time, exception flags, queue age, and rework indicators

## Module Artifact

automation readiness memo with workflow map, exception policy, control points, and ROI estimate focused on robotic process automation basics: Design a simple RPA task and exception path.

## Professional Setting

Students work as if advising an operations team deciding whether to automate part of a high-volume administrative workflow. Their work must be intelligible to process owner, operations analyst, frontline staff lead, and risk/control reviewer.