Staff Development: Autumn term 2025
Mentimeter is here!
All staff and students at UAL now have access to Mentimeter as UAL launches a pilot for 25/26! Mentimeter is an interactive tool which can be used to enhance student participation and engagement in both face-to-face and online classes.
Visit our CSM Digital Learning blog post for more information, and sign up to one of our three training sessions this term. See below.
Autumn term and Staff Development week: December 2025
Introduction to Mentimeter
- Wednesday 5 November 1-2pm
- Monday 17 November 2-3pm
- Monday 15 December 11am-12pm
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 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 new staff induction
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.
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.
AI and Academic Integrity workshop
Wednesday 17 December 2-3pm
Explore how generative AI impacts academic integrity in this practical, discussion-based workshop. Together we will learn to identify appropriate AI use and gain strategies for talking to students about AI in assessments. This session includes useful resources for inclusive and ethical teaching.
Lecture capture: Classroom to Moodle, in 3 easy steps
Part 1: Recording your lecture in the classroom
Tuesday 16 December 11.30am-12.30pm (in-person)
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
Wednesday 17 December 11am-12pm (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.
These sessions are part of a series and a collaboration between the Digital Learning Team and Learning & Teaching Services
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.