Staff development: Summer term 2026
This term the CSM Digital Learning team have a range of sessions including Lecture capture, Mentimeter, Padlet, Copilot and AI panel discussions. All sessions are open to academic and professional services staff.
Sessions that may be of particular interest to Professional Services staff:
- Using Copilot at UAL
- Mentimeter – great for instant responses and feedback in meetings.
- Padlet – useful for sharing ideas, resources and questions.
- Digital learning staff induction – come and find out what platforms are available to use in your work.
- AI and Sustainability panel discussion – useful for anyone thinking about the ethics of using AI.
Sessions:
Introduction to Copilot at UAL
Thursday 2 July 10-11am (online)
This session aims to introduce Microsoft 365 Copilot chat and how it can be used at UAL. Participants will be invited to follow along and explore possible uses including working with documents, web sources and Copilot agents.
Sustainability and AI – Panel discussion
NEW PROVISIONAL DATE: Friday 5th June 11am-12pmFriday 8 May 11am-12pm (online, booking on Eventbrite)
Join us to explore how AI technologies intersect with questions of sustainability, responsibility and the future of creative practice.
Educator’s Toolkit on Art, Design and AI workshop
Wednesday 1st July 10.30am-1pm
Workshop led by Ruth Powell (Head of Digital Learning Practice at UAL) using the new Art, Design & AI: Educator’s Toolkit, guiding staff through practical activities, discussion cards and creative AI workflows. The session aims to help educators explore ethical questions and develop reflective, responsible approaches to integrating AI into art and design teaching.
Digital learning new staff induction
- Wednesday 3 June 1-2pm (online)
- Tuesday 30 June 2.30-3.30pm (online)
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.
Mentimeter slide showing participant responses.
Introduction to Mentimeter
- Wednesday 6 May 1-2pm (online)
- Thursday 28 May 1-2pm (Kings Cross A402)
- Wednesday 1 July 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.
Mentimeter playgroup
Monday 11 May 1-2pm (in-person)
Come along and practice presenting with Mentimeter in a safe environment where mistakes don’t matter! Either bring some silly slides, or samples, or a presentation you want to deliver, and practice sharing your menti slides either online or in person. Other participants will join in and offer feedback on the experience. No pressure, just a chance to try things out!
Using Padlet to support live and online sessions
Thursday 2 July 11am-12pm (online)
Learn how to use this collaborative platform to set up sessions for Object Based Learning, using an interactive map to place locations, book reviews, and image generation. Practise how to create your own posts, link to images, websites, etc. Learn how to comment and rate other posts, share and create breakout spaces.
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
Tuesday 30 June 11.30-12.30 (in-person at Kings Cross)
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:
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.
Learn about the lecture recording benefits for students
Set up classroom equipment to record your session.
Wednesday 1 July 11-12 (online)
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.
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.