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AI Microlearning videos offer quick, bite-sized insights into AI tools, helping you discover practical tips and creative ways to use them in your role. Click the headings below to explore the playlists and start learning.

Please keep in mind that AI tools are frequently updated, and new features are added regularly, so the tools may appear slightly different when you access them.

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🔗 Visit Microsoft Copilot

An enterprise version of Copilot Chat is available to staff and students at Queen's. Log in with your QUB credentials to benefit from enterprise data protection. Your data will not be used to train publicly available AI models.

The playlist below provides a range of example of how you can use AI tools such as Copilot.

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🔗 Visit ChatGPT

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🔗 Visit Gemini

🔗 Visit NotebookLM

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🔗 Visit Claude

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AI for Educators is a new self-paced course on Canvas designed to help staff explore the practical uses of AI in teaching, learning, research, and everyday academic work. 

The course includes hands-on ‘AI Skills Build’ activities that encourage you to experiment with a range of tools—supporting everything from literature reviews and lesson planning to data analysis and accessible learning design. Watch the promo video below.

Sign up to the course here.

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AI Lightning Talks are 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.

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Lightning Talks 2 – 31st March 2026

Being Patient with GenAI - Design, Development, and Impact of a GenAI-driven Patient Interaction Platform.

Simulation is a cornerstone of student education across all healthcare education, and beyond - GenAI offers the ability to build capacity in this area, further enhancing student outcomes. In this session, you'll be able to learn more about the QAIRx patient interaction platform, its collaborative development here at Queen's, and the impact that it's had on students within the School of Pharmacy to date.

Dr Dan Corbett is a Senior Lecturer (Digital Education) and Director of Digital Integration at the School of Pharmacy.

The following blog post provides more information on Dan's work: The Patients of GenAI? Using QAIRx to Train Future Pharmacists

VITAL: Virtually Intelligent Training & Adaptive Learning.

This talk will provide a brief overview of the VITAL platform and its potential for enhancing training scenarios across a range of professions, including social work, clinical psychology, and education. The presentation will demonstrate how VITAL has been adapted for different contexts and showcase examples of its use. It will highlight how AI, when developed with clear and specific aims, can be an effective tool for improving the ways we support professionals in developing the skills needed for challenging or uncertain situations. 

Dr Nichola Booth is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work. 

AI Tools within Careers, Employability and Skills: CareerSet and Big Interview's Practice AI.

A quick demo of two student‑facing AI tools—Big Interview’s PracticeAI for instant, AI‑powered mock‑interview feedback and CareerSet for smart, AI‑driven CV and cover‑letter improvement. 

Staff and students can access CareerSet and BigInterview via the Careers Digital Toolkit. Staff can request access to MyFuture or the assignment section within BigInterview by contacting myfuture@qub.ac.uk

Stephanie Drain and Romano Mullin are based in the Careers, Employability and Skills service.​​

The following blog posts provide more information on Big Interview: 

 

Embracing AI in Pharmacology Education.

This short talk will explore how artificial intelligence can be meaningfully integrated into pharmacology education for nursing students. I will highlight key considerations around professional responsibility, accuracy, and the limitations of AI, particularly in relation to clinical decision-making and patient safety. 

Dr Mark Dornan is a Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

The following blog post provides more information on Mark's work: Embracing AI in Pharmacology Education 

The (not so) Secret Code - Using GenAI to Create Bespoke Tools.

A key strength of many GenAI platforms centre on their ability to handle complex coding challenges, which in turn can allow for the quick and effective production of tools to enhance productivity, pedagogy, and research practice. In this session, learn more about how GenAI platforms can take the role of a coding assistant, allowing you to make your software dreams a reality.

Dr Dan Corbett is a Senior Lecturer (Digital Education) and Director of Digital Integration at the School of Pharmacy.

Lightning Talks 1 – 25th September 2026

Marina de Almeida McLoughlin explains how she created CustomGPTs and Copilot agents to automate routine tasks in the Centre for Biomedical Sciences Education, such as student attendance monitoring and newsletter creation, sharing practical steps and limitations encountered.

Marina is a Learning Development and Support Officer at the Centre for Biomedical Sciences Education.

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Patrick Phillips demonstrates how to use Vevox AI to generate multiple-choice questions and polls from course materials, explaining the workflow from document upload to poll presentation and integration with Canvas.

Patrick is an Educational Technologist in Digital and Information Services.

Vevox's AI quiz generator prompts

Online Tool: Convert Vevox to Canvas

Sarah Stewart presents practical hacks for improving accessibility using AI tools, focusing on PowerPoint Live, subtitles, accessibility checkers, and Copilot for reviewing and enhancing teaching materials, and provides step-by-step demonstrations for staff.

Sarah is the Assistive Technology Coordinator at the Accessible Learning Support service. 

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Duncan Berryman describes the use of Student Voice AI to analyse student survey comments, detailing thematic coding, sentiment analysis, benchmarking, and integration with university platforms, and discusses ongoing developments and benefits over generic AI tools. 

Duncan is a Student Surveys Officer at Careers, Employability and Skills.

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Norma Menabney discusses the role of generative AI in building search strategies for academic literature, demonstrates the use of ChatGPT and Claude for generating search terms, and reviews the integration of AI features in databases like Proquest, Ovid, and Jstor to support robust research practices.

Norma is a Subject Librarian at the McClay Library.

View the AI and the Library LibGuide

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This workshop series was delivered during February and March 2025, covering a wide variety of AI applications across higher education.

Please explore the workshop recordings by clicking on the titles below and viewing the workshop video in Panopto. Slides from the sessions are also available.

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