March: Staff Development Week 18-27 March
Are you using PowerPoint live in Teams, or making the most of the integrated polling or other apps? Come and find out more in our Teaching on MS Teams session.
Do your students struggle to hear you in class? Are your teaching materials accessible for all your students? Find out more in our sessions on using live captions and creating accessible learning materials.
Plus, check out the new features in Miro and Padlet for greater interaction and collaboration.
Sessions:
From creating a slide show, to breakout rooms and polling, Padlet has lots of new features to help with raising engagement. Come and find out about them in this hands-on session.
Teaching on MS Teams
Wednesday 20 March 2-3pm
In this hour long 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.
What’s new in Miro?
Tuesday 19 March 2-3pm
In this session we will cover new exciting features in Miro, from recording a presentation of a board walkthrough with Talkback, using AI Assist to create visuals based on text prompts and other tools to help summarise and categorise content from a collaborative session.
Focussing on inclusivity:
To support CSM’s commitment to creating an inclusive learning environment, these sessions are designed to support all learners.
Supporting students with live captions
Friday 22 March 2-3pm
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.
Part 1: Designing Word and PowerPoint documents for everyone
Monday 25 March 2-3pm
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 26 March 2-3pm
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.
Developing an accessible PowerPoint template for teaching
Wednesday 27 March 11-12pm
PowerPoint templates are a very effective way to create slide decks, however PowerPoint was originally developed for business rather than teaching. Are you using a template that is primarily a business tool?
During this hour-long session, we will look at what makes a great teaching template and discuss the accessibility feature that support this. By the end of the class, you will have started your own template and created up to 5 template slides that you can either use straight away or develop further.
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.