College of Social Sciences

AI Basics with CoPilot

Wednesday 6 May - 13.00-14.00

Whether you're processing grades, managing Moodle content, or supporting academic teams, Copilot can give you a working hand that will impress you.

This introductory webinar will walk you through how to access and manage your Copilot, create effective prompts and profiles, and use it to support tasks like analysing spreadsheets, drafting meeting minutes, and generating ideas for announcements.

We'll also cover key security considerations and show practical examples tailored to administrative workflows. No prior experience with GenAI needed – just bring your curiosity and a few tasks you'd love to make easier!

Introduction to GenAI for Learning and Teaching

Tuesday 12 May - 12-13.00

Discover how Microsoft Copilot, the university-approved GenAI tool, can help you generate ideas and resources for lesson planning, rubrics, and generating quizzes from lecture content. This webinar will show you how to use generative AI to spark new ideas, generate resources, and design activities that support diverse learning needs.

You will also learn how to make a Moodle MCQ quiz based on your PowerPoint lecture slides or a transcript in as little as fifteen.

Whether you're short on time or looking to refresh your approach, Copilot offers practical tools to enhance your teaching. Join us for a hands-on session where you can leave with real examples and ideas you can apply immediately.

Introduction to Power Automate

Monday 18 May - 12-13.00

This webinar will introduce you to the practical uses of Microsoft Power Automate. You’ll see demonstrations of how to use a SharePoint List Form to gather data and trigger automatic emails and notifications, automate Planner task creation, use SharePoint List to track and report data, and visualise the data in PowerBI.

We’ll also demonstrate how Power Automate integrates with SharePoint Lists for data management and PowerBI for reporting, helping you streamline processes and improve productivity.

Student Engagement with Mentimeter

Thursday 14 May - 13-14.00

This webinar introduces Mentimeter, a dynamic presentation tool that boosts student engagement in both in-person and remote settings.

Learn how to create interactive slides, run polls and quizzes, gather feedback, and review student responses.

Mentimeter can also be embedded in PowerPoint.

Build a Flow with Power Automate

Tuesday 26 May - 11-12.00

This webinar is for participants who are already familiar with the basics of Power Automate. Please attend the Introduction to Power Automate webinar first if you are not familiar with Power Automate.

Starting with the creation of a Power Automate flow for Approvals, this webinar will guide you through the steps for creating a Power Automate flow by starting with a template, then customising and adding actions, and connecting the flow to a SharePoint List to gather data for tracking and reporting.

Use Microsoft CoPilot to Create a Moodle Quiz based on lecture content

Wednesday 20 May: 13-14.00

You can make a Moodle MCQ quiz based on your PowerPoint lecture slides in as little as fifteen minutes by using Microsoft Copilot, the Generative AI tool embedded in the Microsoft Edge browser. All UofG staff have access to Copilot, and this webinar will demonstrate how to use it, and give suggestions for how you can use the quizzes in Moodle to enhance students’ learning experience.

We will also briefly show examples of other ways to use Copilot for learning and teaching.

Introduction to Power Query

Thursday 28 May - 13-14.00

This new webinar introduces the powerful data tools Power Query.
 
You will be introduced to the basics of how to clean, transform, and combine data using Power Query.
 
This session is ideal for anyone looking to enhance their data skills for teaching, administration, or research.

 

Introduction to Power BI

Monday 1 June - 12.30-13.30

This webinar introduces Power BI as the next step in moving from data to insight. Building on earlier sessions focused on Power Query and Power Automate, it shows how prepared, reliable data can be transformed into clear visual stories that support understanding, discussion and decision‑making. Aimed at both academic and professional services colleagues, the session focuses on how PowerBI can be used in everyday contexts to explore patterns, surface insights and communicate meaning effectively. Participants will leave with a clearer sense of what Power BI can enable, how it fits into existing workflows, and how they might begin using it to tell stories with their data through a reliable process:
collect → clean → model → visualise → share.