Panopto - Basic Editing of Lecture Videos
2025-09-16 10:00 - 11:30 (Europe/London) | Microsoft Teams
This session introduces you to video editing using the University’s Panopto video content management system.
What you’ll learn:

Navigating the Panopto Editor interface.
Trimming and adjusting video streams.
Enhancing videos with quizzes, YouTube content, Panopto clips, and web links.
Managing captions and audio descriptions.
Updating video details such as titles and descriptions.

Who it’s for:

Staff who use Panopto and want to edit their videos efficiently with the Panopto Editor.

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AI Lightning Talks
2025-09-24 10:00 - 12:00
AI is transforming education, and the impact is already being felt across teaching, learning, research, and student support.
This online session will showcase a series of short, engaging examples of how staff across the university are already putting AI into practice. From innovative approaches in learning and teaching, to enhancing the student experience and support, to creating resources, improving accessibility, and advancing research, you’ll hear practical, real-world insights that can inspire your own work.
Why attend?

Hear directly from colleagues across the university about how AI is making a difference in their areas.
Explore practical, transferable examples you can adapt to your own context.
Learn more about the support, training, and resources available to staff.
Join the discussion on opportunities, challenges, and responsible use of AI in higher education.

Who is it for?
This event is open to academic and professional support staff from across the university. No prior knowledge of AI is required, just an interest in learning, exploring, and sharing ideas.
Join us for a morning of short talks, inspiration, and discussion about the future of AI in education.
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Panopto - Getting Started with Lecture Capture
2025-09-24 14:00 - 15:30
In this short, introductory session, QUB staff will be introduced to the University’s video content management system, Panopto.
Panopto is a best-in-class video platform that complements the Unversity’s approach to lecture capture and video recordings. It integrates seamlessly with Canvas and can be used to capture recording from your personal laptop/desktop in your office (campus or remote) or from centrally bookable teaching spaces.

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Vevox - Getting Started with Polls | Q&A | Surveys
2025-09-26 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-10-02 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-10-06 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-10-17 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-10-20 10:00 - 11:30
Enhancing Engagement with Vevox: An Introduction to Polls, Q&A, and Surveys
Duration: 90 minutes (including Q&A)
Target Audience: All staff
Venue: MS Teams (A meeting link will be shared before the event)
Session Overview: This introductory session explores Vevox, the University’s audience engagement tool, designed to facilitate interactive polling, Q&A, and surveying in virtual, in-person, and hybrid settings. Participants will learn how to integrate Vevox into their teaching practices or at events to boost engagement and gather valuable feedback.
Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Understand the core features of Vevox, including live polling, Q&A, and surveys.
Integrate Vevox seamlessly into PowerPoint to enhance presentations.
Create and manage interactive sessions to engage students effectively.

Join us to discover how Vevox can elevate your teaching by fostering interactive and inclusive learning environments.

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Excel 1: Essentials (ECDL - Spreadsheets)
2025-09-30 11:30 - 12:30
This practical course is the essential starting point for anyone interested in learning how to produce spreadsheets using Microsoft Office Excel and forms an ideal basis for further courses in Excel. This course is also suitable for those needing to update their skills so that they can make efficient use of the latest version of this popular spreadsheets application. Excel 1: Essentials covers the basics of how to create, save and edit spreadsheets before progressing participants onto the creation of basic formulas and charts. The new cell and table styles will be introduced and participants will learn fundamental techniques such as sorting, naming ranges, find and replace, changing the page setup and renaming worksheets. This course also helps prepare you for the ICDL – Spreadsheets module test.
Aimed at: Staff with little or no previous experience of using Microsoft Excel and those taking ICDL – Spreadsheets (Module 4).
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Windows.

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Panopto - Getting Started with Lecture Capture
2025-10-01 09:30 - 11:00, 2025-10-08 09:30 - 11:00, 2025-10-15 09:30 - 11:00, 2025-10-22 09:30 - 11:00
In this short, introductory session, QUB staff will be introduced to the University’s video content management system, Panopto.
Panopto is a best-in-class video platform that complements the University’s approach to lecture capture and video recordings. It integrates seamlessly with Canvas and can be used to capture recording from your personal laptop/desktop in your office (campus or remote) or from centrally bookable teaching spaces.

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OneDrive: An Overview
2025-10-01 10:30 - 11:30
The aim of the is session is to introduce you to the key features and functionality of OneDrive to help optimise your use of the app in day-to-day work processes.
The session will focus on navigating around the OneDrive landing page (My files, Shared areas etc) and how to easily access folders/files in a SharePoint Online site and in MS Teams. The session will demonstrate the basics of managing files and folders and some of the collaborative features such as sharing, co-editing and its connectivity to other apps such as Power automate

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Introduction to Power Automate (Microsoft 365)
2025-10-03 09:30 - 10:30
Power Automate is a service that helps you build workflows that automate time-consuming business tasks across applications and services. Power Automate can be used to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and more. Power Automate is one of the Microsoft 365 suite of apps.
Course objectives:

Understand what Power Automates is and how it works
Build flows from existing templates
Build flows from scratch
Understand how to work with triggers, actions and conditions

Prerequisites: Be comfortable with exchanging data between applications.

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Introduction to Power BI
2025-10-07 09:30 - 10:30
Power BI is Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) solution for visualising and sharing data. Power BI enables you to quickly develop interactive reports and dashboards and share impactful visualisations with others.
Course objectives:

What is Power BI?
Power BI Desktop
Power BI service
Importing Files
Creating interactive visualisations
Reports and Dashboards
Row-Level Security
Sharing reports and dashboards

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Excel 2: Managing Data
2025-10-08 10:00 - 11:00
Continuing from Excel 1: Essentials, this course looks at how to arrange and display both numeric and non-numeric data in Excel to present it in a meaningful manner. Through a series of practical exercises, participants will learn about a variety of techniques which can be employed to make spreadsheets more comprehensible, such as sorting, basic and advanced filtering, conditional formatting and custom number and date formats. Excel Tables and the new data bars, colour scales and icon sets, which can be used for conditional formatting, are among the features that will be explored in this course.
Aimed at: Staff who wish to learn how to use MS Excel to store and display data and those hoping to take the ICDL Advanced module in Spreadsheets.
Prerequisites: Previous attendance at Excel 1: Essentials or a similar level of experience of using Excel.

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Build a SharePoint Online Site using Web Parts
2025-10-08 12:30 - 13:30
A SharePoint business/communication site allows you to share news, reports, status, and other information in a visually compelling format.
When you add a modern page to a site, you add and customize web parts. This course will provide some working examples of Share Point Online Communication sites and how you can build your site by adding pages and using apps/web parts to customize and enhance the visual appearance of your site, by adding text, images, files, video, dynamic content, and more using various web parts.

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Further Power Automate
2025-10-10 09:30 - 10:30
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Microsoft Planner: An Overview
2025-10-13 11:00 - 12:00
More details to follow..

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Further Power BI
2025-10-14 09:30 - 10:30
Power BI is Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) solution for visualising and sharing data. Power BI enables you to quickly develop interactive reports and dashboards and share impactful visualisations with others.

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Creating infographics and visual content
2025-10-16 09:30 - 10:30
“People expect the world to be so much more visual than it’s ever been before.” David Marcus, Facebook’s Head of Messenger
In this workshop we will practice using Piktochart, Canva and Sway, free tools which allow us to create professional, visually appealing social media posts, infographics, newsletters and more.

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Manage a Project Using M365 Apps (Part I)
2025-10-16 11:00 - 12:00
Virtual Course offered via MS Teams
This course (offered over two separate sessions – Part I (1 hour) and Part II (1 hour)) is aimed at staff who wish to become more familiar with M365 suite and how some of its cloud apps available can be used to enhance the delivery and communication of a project, task or shared piece of work.
M365 apps referenced include: Outlook, MS Teams, Planner, (Part I) OneDrive, Forms, SP Lists and Flows in Power Automate (Part II).
The course includes creating reusable Outlook content, tailoring MS Teams communications and collaboration files, designing a project plan and task management. The course also demonstrates how you can manage cloud-based files including version history, survey design and collection of feedback, organizing SharePoint lists and using flows to automate project work.

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Excel: Creating Charts
2025-10-21 09:30 - 10:30
This specialised course looks at the improved charting feature in Excel 2007 and discusses some of the different types of charts that can be created, in particular, line, scatter, pie, bar and column charts. It also covers how to edit scientific or statistical charts to include features such as secondary axes and error bars and how to format charts, both manually and by using the new chart styles available in Excel 2010. Participants will be able to practise creating and formatting different types of charts by completing a series of exercises and will also learn how to set the default chart type and how to create a chart template.
Aimed at: Staff who wish to learn more about displaying data graphically and those interested in taking the ECDL Advanced module in Spreadsheets.
Prerequisites: Previous attendance at Excel 1: Essentials or a similar level of experience of using Excel 2010.

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Microsoft Lists: An Introduction
2025-10-22 10:30 - 11:30
Microsoft Lists is a productivity app included with Microsoft 365 that allows you to organize your thoughts, create lists with your teammates, and share lists throughout the organization. In this course you will be shown how to create a list from scratch or from a template and adjust lists using a wide variety of built-in formatting options.
This course also provides an overview of how to collaborate more effectively and efficiently with colleagues. The course will explore the basics of cowriting new lists and then sharing across different areas in the organization. You will learn how to format and view lists in a table, as events on a calendar, or create custom views for your specific needs. You will also learn how to work with Lists in tandem, using other MS tools such as SharePoint and Teams.

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Microsoft Bookings: Create a Shared Bookings Page
2025-10-23 10:30 - 11:30
Microsoft Bookings is an Office 365 scheduling app that lets you configure an online booking calendar that integrates with Outlook. Use it to create a booking form that allows QUB students and staff (and external contacts), to book a service or resource. It also integrates with MS Teams, so appointments can be set up as an online Teams meeting or in-person. The online calendar allows people to books services such as:

An appointment with yourself or your team (such as academic advising hours, training workshops, professional services)
Rooms or spaces (such as labs, computer suites, conference facilities)
Equipment (such multi-media equipment)

Key features include:

A 24/7/365 online solution for booking appointments — no calls necessary
Automatic email confirmations and reminders
The ability to cancel or reschedule online
An easy way to add appointments to their calendars.
Bookings integrates with staff Office calendars to create available time slots and avoid double-booking. (Employees added as staff will get an Approve/Reject link in the email notification they receive regarding the Booking appointment)

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Excel: Introduction to PivotTables
2025-10-24 09:30 - 10:30
This is a half day course that includes a presentation and a variety of practical exercises. This is an advanced course aimed at staff who are experienced at using Microsoft Excel 2010 and are interested in finding out more about PivotTables and PivotCharts. PivotTables are a popular Excel tool for dynamically exploring and analysing large datasets in order to summarise data and make informed decisions. PivotCharts are interactive charts that can be used to visualise PivotTable reports to convey information about patterns and trends within the data. PivotTables can take their source data from within Excel or from external sources like databases, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cubes and text files, and allow users to analyse data without altering the original data source. This course will provide participants with an introduction to PivotTables and will include topics such as adding and removing fields, applying styles, filtering data, changing field settings and creating PivotCharts.
Aimed At: Staff who are experienced at using Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 and are interested in finding out more about PivotTables and PivotCharts. Also, useful for those interested in taking the ECDL Advanced module in Spreadsheets.
Prerequisites: Participants should have completed Excel 1: Essentials before attending this course or should have significant previous experience of using Excel 2007/2010.

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Excel 3: Data Analysis
2025-10-28 09:30 - 10:30
This advanced course looks at some of the data analysis tools and functions available in Excel 2010 and involves a range of practical exercises using different types of data. Participants will learn how to use a variety of what-if analysis tools that can be employed in data analysis and decision making, such as Data Tables, Scenarios, Goal Seek and Solver. In addition, the course will cover a wide range of useful functions, including text, logical, financial, lookup and date and time functions, which can be used to manipulate spreadsheet data. An introduction to the interface for creating PivotTable and PivotChart reports in Excel 2010 is also included.
Aimed at: Staff who wish to advance their knowledge of Excel or who are hoping to take the ECDL Advanced module in Spreadsheets.
Prerequisites: As this is an advanced course, previous attendance at Excel 1 and 2 or significant experience of creating spreadsheets using Excel 2007 or 2010 is recommended.

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Excel: Get and Transform
2025-10-30 09:30 - 10:30
“Power Query and Power Pivot aka Get and Transform are the best thing to happen to Excel in 20 years”. Bill Jelen, Excel MVP
How long would it take you to combine data from 15 workbooks into a single data set? A few minutes, an hour? If you’re using Get & Transform (previously known as Power Query), you could combine the data from all the workbooks in a few clicks. With Get & Transform, you can add data from almost any source e.g. files, folders, databases, web pages, organise and transform it and incorporate it in your reports.
Aimed at: As this is an advanced course previous attendance at Introduction to PivotTables or a working knowledge of creating pivot tables is recommended.

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Manage a Project Using M365 Apps (Part II) (OneDrive,Forms, SP Lists, Power Automate Flows)
2025-11-04 10:30 - 11:30
