Staff Development: Autumn 2025
This term we are focussing on getting everyone refreshed and ready with our digital learning tools and welcoming new starters with our Digital Learning Staff Induction.
Struggling with how to handle AI? We also have AI at UAL: Introduction to Guidance and Resources.
Take a look at our Staff Development week sessions and the Autumn term sessions below.
Staff development week 15-26 September
Moodle: setting up submission areas (Programme Admin teams)
Friday 12 September 12-12.45pm
Come along to this session for a recap on how to format the new Moodle Submission areas in use at CSM. Hopefully this will save you time and energy, and a space to ask any questions.
What’s new in Miro?
Monday 15 September 2-3pm
In this refresher session we will demonstrate Miro’s new features useful for teaching and learning, including Talktrack, Summary Catch-up, interactive slides, AI features and more.
Introduction to Padlet
Friday 19 September 12-1pm
We will cover all the basics, logging in, setting up a board, sharing settings as well as some of the great new features for presentation and collaboration.
Using Moodle announcements confidently
Monday 22 September 2-2.45pm
Do you feel anxious sending emails to the whole course? Want to know how to select a group of students? Or just want a refresher on using the Announcements tool? Come along to this session and we’ll demystify Moodle communications.
AI at UAL: Introduction to guidance and resources
Tuesday 23 September 2-3pm
As well as the ‘UAL Position statement on AI’, there are now resources looking at ‘AI in teaching and learning’ and ‘AI in assessment’, as well as the ‘UAL Student guide to generative AI’.
In this session we will look at the guidance together, share ideas and strategies and consider how to open up this conversation with students.
Digital learning new staff induction
Wednesday 24 September 2-3pm (online)
In this session we will introduce you to Moodle at CSM, including; navigation, course pages, communication and where to find support. Based on attendees’ interests we will also look at the other Digital learning platforms used at CSM: Miro, myblog, Padlet, Workflow, Panopto and MS Teams.
Autumn term:
Part 1: Designing Word and PowerPoint documents for everyone
Monday 13 October 12-1.15pm
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
Monday 20 October 12-1pm
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.
Teaching on MS Teams
Wednesday 15 October 2-3pm
In this session we will look at the various tools provided by MS Teams for teaching: Powerpoint live, breakout rooms, reactions, Q&A, polling, app integration such as Miro and recordings availability.
How to set up a VR exhibition
Friday 7 November 10.30-12 (Bookings in 30mins slots – max of 4 people in each)
Ever wanted to run an exhibition but lack the space or time? Using low cost services such as spatial.io, this session will explain how to go about creating a virtual space and display digital artefacts that can be explored using traditional computers and mobile devices as well as VR headsets.
Supporting students with live captions
Wednesday 5 November 2.30-3.30 (in-person – Kings Cross)
In this session, we will discuss the value of adding captions to live teaching (face-to-face and online) based on student feedback and research. We will also take a look at some different captioning tools, and how to use them. Digital learning staff induction
Digital learning new staff induction
- Friday 17 October 12-1pm (Online)
- Tuesday 18 November 2-3pm (In-person)
These sessions are for all new or current academic and course admin staff, who feel they would benefit from an introduction to Moodle and other Digital Learning platforms. Please note, there is limited funding available for HPLs to attend.
In this session we will introduce you to Moodle at CSM, including; navigation, course pages, communication and where to find support. Based on attendees’ interests we will also look at the other Digital learning platforms used at CSM: Miro, myblog, Padlet, Workflow, Panopto and MS Teams.
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.