College of Social Sciences

Introduction to GenAI for Learning and Teaching

Tuesday 20 January 12 - 1:00pm

Discover how Microsoft Copilot, the university-approved GenAI tool, can help you generate ideas and resources for lesson planning, rubrics, and generating quizzes from lecture content. This webinar will show you how to use generative AI to spark new ideas, generate resources, and design activities that support diverse learning needs.

You will also learn how to make a Moodle MCQ quiz based on your PowerPoint lecture slides or a transcript in as little as fifteen.
Whether you're short on time or looking to refresh your approach, Copilot offers practical tools to enhance your teaching. Join us for a hands-on session where you can leave with real examples and ideas you can apply immediately.

Introduction to Power Automate

Thursday 22 January 13 - 14:00

This webinar will introduce you to the practical uses of Microsoft Power Automate. You’ll see demonstrations of how to use a SharePoint List Form to gather data and trigger automatic emails and notifications, automate Planner task creation, use SharePoint List to track and report data, and visualise the data in PowerBI.

We’ll also demonstrate how Power Automate integrates with SharePoint Lists for data management and PowerBI for reporting, helping you streamline processes and improve productivity.

Miro: Brainstorming and planning for students and staff

Monday 26 January: 13 - 14.00

Miro is an interactive collaborative whiteboard that offers exciting benefits for student engagement, workplace collaboration, and presentations.

You can use it to create multimedia rich environments that allow real time interaction, annotation and brainstorming among students. It can also be used for project brainstorming and planning with colleagues.

This webinar will show you how to use Miro to enhance student engagement, foster a dynamic and inclusive learning environment, and explore its other features.

Please note: to benefit fully from this webinar, you should first register for a licence from the university.

Introducing Reassessment Management in MyGrades

Wednesday 28 January: 13 - 14.00

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Wednesday 11 February: 12 - 13:00

The UofG MyGrades application has been enhanced with a new Reassessment Management feature to support grade aggregation where resubmissions are enabled. This webinar will provide an overview of the feature, demonstrate its functionality, and explain how it can assist with reassessment processes and grade aggregation for course administrators.

Practical Copilot for Educators: Create, Customize, Engage

Tuesday 03 February 12 - 13:00

This webinar is for participants who are already familiar with the basics of Copilot. Please attend the Introduction to GenAI for Learning and Teaching webinar first if you are not familiar with Copilot or GenAI.

Copilot helps you to create lesson plans, rubrics, and more. This webinar will show you how to create a detailed plan for an interactive lecture and tutorial that creates and integrates digital content, tools and in-class activities to engage students. In this hands-on session, you will be asked to follow along with the demonstration to create a plan and activities for your own teaching content.

Build a Flow with Power Automate

Thursday 05 February 13 - 14:00

This webinar is for participants who are already familiar with the basics of Power Automate. Please attend the Introduction to Power Automate webinar first if you are not familiar with Power Automate.

Starting with the creation of a Power Automate flow for Approvals, this webinar will guide you through the steps for creating a Power Automate flow by starting with a template, then customising and adding actions, and connecting the flow to a SharePoint List to gather data for tracking and reporting.

Student Engagement with Mentimeter

Monday 09 February 13 - 14:00

This webinar introduces Mentimeter, a dynamic presentation tool that boosts student engagement in both in-person and remote settings.

Learn how to create interactive slides, run polls and quizzes, gather feedback, and review student responses.

Mentimeter can also be embedded in PowerPoint.