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About Quick CPD

Quick CPD are bite sized videos (from 30 seconds to 3 minutes) that you can watch over a cuppa. Get inspired, learn a new skill that you can quickly put to use in your job and share with colleagues.

Quick CPD is brought to you by the Digital Learning Team. If you have any suggestions for content you would like us to cover, please get in touch: digitallearning@shu.ac.uk

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Convert PDF to Word

Convert PDF to Word

Admin Tasks Digital Tools Productivity

Removing a Background from an Image using PowerPoint

This video shows you how you can use the remove background button in Microsoft PowerPoint to remove a background from an image in PowerPoint. This could be useful if you are creating teaching resources and need an image without a background to layer over the top of something else.

Digital Tools

Using Cameo in PowerPoint

Using the cameo feature in Microsoft PowerPoint to have your webcam appear on selected slides only. Useful for live sessions and for recordings.

Digital Tools

Using Clipboard History

How to use your clipboard history when working on copy and paste based tasks.

Productivity Admin Tasks

Intro to Generative AI

A quick introduction to generative AI

Emerging Technologies Digital Tools

Re-opening Closed Chrome Tabs

If you've ever accidentally closed a tab in the Google Chrome browser and need to recover it, here is how.

Productivity

Ultra Copy Tool

Using the copy tool in Blackboard Ultra

Ultra

Importing Groups & Group Sets

A quick how to guide on importing groups and group sets in Blackboard Ultra when you have lots of students or staff to assign to groups

Digital Tools Productivity Online Delivery

Moving Panopto Videos from Blackboard Classic to Ultra

How to move your Panopto videos from a Blackboard classic site to a Blackboard Ultra site

Ultra Admin Tasks

Introduction to Open Source Software

An introduction to open source software, what it is and a quick showcase of some of the software that might be useful in your teaching and learning practices.

Productivity Digital Tools Pedagogy
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About Quick CPD

Quick CPD are bite sized videos (from 30 seconds to 3 minutes) that you can watch over a cuppa. Get inspired, learn a new skill that you can quickly put to use in your job and share with colleagues.

Quick CPD is brought to you by the Digital Learning Team. If you have any suggestions for content you would like us to cover, please get in touch: digitallearning@shu.ac.uk

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