College of Social Sciences

Practical Copilot for Educators: Create, Customize, Engage

Thursday 09 July 12-13.00 

This webinar is for participants who are already familiar with the basics of Copilot. Please attend the Introduction to GenAI for Learning and Teaching webinar first if you are not familiar with Copilot or GenAI.


Copilot helps you to create lesson plans, rubrics, and more. This webinar will show you how to create a detailed plan for an interactive lecture and tutorial that creates and integrates digital content, tools and in-class activities to engage students. In this hands-on session, you will be asked to follow along with the demonstration to create a plan and activities for your own teaching content.

 

Introduction to Power Automate

Friday 10 July - 13-14.00

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.

Build a Flow with Power Automate

Monday 13 July - 11.00-12.00

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.

Build Your Own Interactive Persona In Copilot

Wednesday 15 July 13-14.00 

Bring a new “voice” into your classroom: in this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to design and summon your own interactive persona using Microsoft Copilot – a custom AI character that can role-play experts, challenge student thinking, and support self-directed study.
 
You will then have time to adapt this structure to your own context – for example, a Law case mentor, a reflective teaching coach in Education, a business strategist, a policy stakeholder, or an environmental campaigner – and test your draft persona live.

Introduction to Power Query

Tuesday 28 July - 11-12.00

This webinar provides an introduction to Power Query, a data preparation tool built directly into Excel. It is particularly useful for anyone who regularly works with spreadsheets and wants a more reliable way to clean and organise data. 

You will be guided through the core features of Power Query, including how to tidy columns, remove inconsistencies, transform data into different formats, and combine information from multiple files. These tasks are carried out through a familiar Excel-style interface, making it accessible even if you have limited technical experience. 

The session will also highlight how Power Query records each step you take, allowing you to reuse the same process when your data updates. This reduces the need for repetitive manual work and helps ensure consistency. 

This webinar is well suited to staff in teaching, administration, or research roles who are looking to build confidence with data and develop more efficient, repeatable ways of working in Excel. 

Introduction to Power BI

Thursday 30 July - 12-13.00

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.