College of Social Sciences

AI Basics with CoPilot

Tuesday 31 March - 11.30-12.30

Whether you're processing grades, managing Moodle content, or supporting academic teams, Copilot can give you a working hand that will impress you.

This introductory webinar will walk you through how to access and manage your Copilot, create effective prompts and profiles, and use it to support tasks like analysing spreadsheets, drafting meeting minutes, and generating ideas for announcements.

We'll also cover key security considerations and show practical examples tailored to administrative workflows. No prior experience with GenAI needed – just bring your curiosity and a few tasks you'd love to make easier!

Introduction to GenAI for Learning and Teaching

Thursday 2 April - 13-14.00

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

Monday 6 April - 12-13.00

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.

Practical Copilot for Educators: Create, Customize, Engage

Wednesday 8 April - 13.30-14.30 & Wednesday 22 April - 13-14.00 

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

Tuesday 14 April - 13.30-14.30

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

Thursday 16 April - 12-13.00

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.

Introduction to Power Query and Power BI

Monday 20 April - 13-14.00

This new webinar introduces the powerful data tools Power Query and Power BI.

You will be introduced to the basics of how to clean, transform, and combine data using Power Query, and create interactive dashboards and reports in Power BI.

This session is ideal for anyone looking to enhance their data skills for teaching, administration, or research.