  We explore glassy dynamics of dense assemblies of soft particles that are
self-propelled by active forces. These forces have a fixed amplitude and a
propulsion direction that varies on a timescale tau_p, the persistence
timescale. Numerical simulations of such active glasses are computationally
challenging when the dynamics is governed by large persistence times. We
describe in detail a recently proposed scheme that allows one to study directly
the dynamics in the large persistence time limit, on timecales around and well
above the persistence time. We discuss the idea behind the proposed scheme,
which we call activity-driven dynamics, as well as its numerical
implementation. We establish that our prescription faithfully reproduces all
dynamical quantities in the appropriate limit tau_p goes to infinity. We deploy
the approach to explore in detail the statistics of Eshelby-like plastic events
in the steady state dynamics of a dense and intermittent active glass.
