Microsoft Copilot for educators webinar

 Notes taken from Copilot for educators webinar this afternoon. 

The session hosted by Microsoft  based in Australia. Beginning with acknowledgement of country and instructions for live captions and transcriptions.

Hosted by Jennifer Ruan (overview/facilitator) and Victor Kochetkov (demonstrator).

Started with running through the 'Teach' module with its various teaching tools. Tools are specific to sectors. For example, alignment to standard for school sectors. Went though 'create lesson plan', attaching files (allows specific standards to be added) and the drop down menu. UK English will be available soonat present, only American English. Once the lesson plan created, save to onedrive as a word doc.

Standards for vocational education in plans to be added for Australia. 

Demonstrated how to then draw on the lesson plan that was created to generate lesson notes/handouts using 'new chat'. Then showed how to edit the handout in Notes and then add it to a Notebook. 

Advised to use custom instructions (in settings) to provide specific instructions that cover the tone and specificity of AI responses. 

Then showed capabilities in 'Create'. So infographics can be created from the handout/lecture notes. Now stored in the 'Library'. Then did the same with powerpoint which should have organisational template available. Images etc. for ppt are from microsoft pool for copyright accreditation or AI generated. Institutional images can also be availed. 

Then used new chat to compare transcript of the lecture with the notes to identify gaps in delivery.

Next, demonstrated rubric creator in Teach module. Description only allowed, as no download/attach file capability yet. 

Then showed how the quiz creator works. Created a quiz into microsoft forms. Then used Analyst agent to do a analysis of the quiz responses (converted into excel spreadsheet). Then using the analysis, create another lesson plan which addresses the content that students did not achieve in the quiz. 

Then went back to 'create module' to create a video based on the ppt slides with a voice over.

Lastly, focused on notebooks - to collate items in one topic and how this forms the base for use in different ways. Especially for putting parameters on AI reference for responses, to create quizzes, flashcards etc.

Q & A ensured.

Many of the participants seemed to not have used copilot M365, so time spent to show how to access and where the Teach module is, how to  navigate through Copilot and use the various icons, enterprise/organisational data security etc.

Presentation recorded for further review.