Set up your Moodle Gradebook for use with MyGrades

Thursday 25 September: 13.30-14.30

The Moodle Gradebook is a comprehensive and flexible tool for managing and organising student grades. It allows you to organise all assignments into summative and formative categories, and calculates course grade totals according to the relative weight of each assignment. It can also manage resit scenarios and others, such as 'drop the lowest three grades' of a group of activities.

Setting up the Gradebook properly is a prerequisite for MyGrades to work.

This webinar will review the main features of Gradebook and how to use them, and will be of relevance to anyone who is involved in managing and releasing student grades.

More information about the Moodle Gradebook (Links open in new tab.)

AI Basics with CoPilot

Monday 29 September: 13-14.00; and Friday 17 October: 13-14.00

Whether you're processing grades, managing Moodle content, or supporting academic teams, Copilot can help you work smarter.

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!

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

Wednesday 1 October: 12-13.00

Fequent formative quizzing has been shown to improve student engagement and outcomes, but making quizzes is time consuming. You can make a Moodle quiz based on your PowerPoint lecture slides or lecture transcript in as little as fifteen minutes by using Microsoft Copilot, the Generative AI tool available to all UofG staff.

Learn how to 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.

Using Moodle Logs and Reports to Explore Student Activity

Tuesday 7 October: 12-13.00

Would you like to know more about how students are interacting with your Moodle course, track activity completion, get data summaries, understand Moodle logs, and use the custom reports created by the University?

Everything that people do in Moodle is logged, and this webinar will show you how to use this data to improve the learning and teaching experience for your students.

Designing for Significant Learning: Applying Fink’s Integrated Course Design

Thursday 9 October: 13-14.30

This interactive session introduces L. Dee Fink’s Integrated Course Design—a practical framework that helps educators align learning outcomes, teaching strategies, and assessment for deeper student engagement and improved learning outcomes.

Participants will explore how to apply Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning to redesign courses that not only meet academic objectives but also foster personal growth, interdisciplinary thinking, and real-world relevance.

Whether you're revising an existing module or developing a new one, you'll discover strategies to help students demonstrate meaningful learning and connect more deeply with your subject.

Refresh Your Tutorials and Seminars with GenAI

Wednesday 15 October: 12-13.00

Discover how Microsoft Copilot, the university-approved GenAI tool, can help you plan engaging and interactive tutorials and seminars.

This webinar will show you how to use generative AI to spark new ideas, generate resources, and design activities that support diverse learning needs.

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.

Student engagement with Mentimeter

Monday 20 October: 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.