Staff development: Spring term 2026
This term the CSM Digital Learning team have a range of sessions to help support staff and students at CSM. Scroll down for further details. Remember to check back as there is more to come!
Topics include:
- Digital learning induction
- Mentimeter – introduction and active learning
- Lecture capture – how to capture live lectures and store in Panopto
- AI – academic integrity workshop and ethics panel discussion
- Creating accessible learning materials
Sessions:
Lecture capture: Classroom to Moodle, in 3 easy steps
These sessions are part of a series and a collaboration between the Digital Learning Team and Learning & Teaching Services
Part 1: Recording your lecture in the classroom
- Date to be confirmed
Join our hands-on sessions to learn how you can lecture capture – record, edit, and share your sessions effortlessly with Panopto. Enhance accessibility and support for students learning through flexible, on-demand viewing.
Aims of the session:
- Learn about the lecture recording benefits for students
- Set up classroom equipment to record your session.
- Simple folder management: Move your video from your Panopto personal folder to your course folder so that students can access your recording directly from your Moodle page.
Part 2: Simple video and caption editing using Panopto
- Date to be confirmed
In this session we will ease any technical concerns by showing you how to make simple edits to your live recordings and edit captions to improve accessibility for students.
Aims of the session:
- Simple folder management (review): Move your video from your Panopto personal folder to your course folder so that students can access your recording directly from your Moodle page.
- Edit your recording: Delete unwanted footage, add titles, annotations and overlays.
- Edit your captions and add chapters.
Digital learning new staff induction
- Wednesday 28 January 1.30-2.30pm (online)
- Monday 9 February 1-2pm (in person at Kings Cross)
This session is intended for all new academic and course admin staff, or current staff who feel they would benefit from an introduction to Moodle and other Digital Learning platforms. Please note, we are keen to support all new staff in the academic teams and there is limited funding available for HPLs to attend.
AI at CSM
AI and ethics – Panel discussion
Details to be confirmed.
AI and Academic Integrity workshop
Details to be confirmed.
Mentimeter
Introduction to Mentimeter
- Thursday 8 January 1-2pm (online)
- Monday 23 February 1-2pm (online)
Join us for an introduction to using Mentimeter, our new digital learning platform, which is used to gather real-time feedback, questions, comments and reflections from participants. We’ll cover the basics, from logging in, creating slides, going live and sharing results.
Supporting active learning, using Mentimeter
- Friday 27 February 12-1 (online)
- Wednesday 25 March 3-4pm (online)
Do you wonder what students are thinking? What have they understood? What do they need help with? What are their ideas? We know that active participation and engagement supports learning, so why not come along and see how Mentimeter can help?
As part of our Blended Learning Initiative, this session follows on from Introduction to Mentimeter and looks in more detail at how Mentimeter can be used in class. We will think about what good teaching looks like, and how Mentimeter can be used to dig deeper into our students’ responses and ideas.
Creating accessible learning materials
To support UAL’s commitment to creating an inclusive learning environment, we have two sessions to support you to create learning materials that all students can access.
Part 1: Designing Word and PowerPoint documents for everyone
- Tuesday 10 February – 2-3.15pm (online) – Booking link to follow.
In Part 1, we will look at Word and PowerPoint and show you the fundamentals of accessible design, including; formatting, heading structure, alternative text and use of images, reading order and using the built-in accessibility checkers.
Part 2: Ensuring your PDFs are accessible
- Tuesday 24 February – 2-3pm (online) – Booking link to follow.
Following on from Part 1, if you decide to convert your documents to a PDF, we will show you how to do a final check in Adobe Acrobat pro to ensure your documents are fully accessible before you upload them to Moodle.
As always, we are also happy to organise bespoke training or workshops, or to plan a longer term project with course and admin teams.
Please let us know if you have any requests, or just get in touch for a chat.