Faculty development

Personalized slides for faculty development workshops.

Centers for teaching and learning run workshops for rooms where every instructor teaches something different. LiveSlide.Pro asks each person what they want from the session, then adds a slide to a live deck in your browser that answers them by name, with examples from their own discipline. Everyone leaves with a 7-day plan at their own link.

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What you need: a laptop with a web browser. Faculty need only a phone camera.

The mixed-discipline problem

A typical teaching workshop might include a nursing instructor worried about clinical reflections, an engineering lecturer rethinking problem sets, and a composition teacher who has already redesigned three assignments. A single set of examples lands for one of them and loses the other two.

Facilitators usually solve this with breakout groups or a long Q&A, and both eat time. LiveSlide.Pro lets you acknowledge every person in the first ten minutes, then teach the shared material with the whole room already paying attention.

An example session

Illustrative example · fictional people

“Designing Assignments in the Age of AI” · 90 minutes · 28 faculty

  1. Arrival, 0:00. The projector shows the QR code. As faculty sit down, they scan and answer “What do you want to get out of today?” One writes: “Stop worrying that my lab reports are AI-written.” Another: “Use AI to give faster feedback in a 200-student course.”
  2. Opening, 0:10. You click Start presenting while you introduce the session. The deck opens on the projector, and each person’s slides fill in over the next few minutes.
  3. Walkthrough, 0:15. With presenter notes open on your laptop, you show a handful of slides that represent the room’s main concerns, naming the people who raised them. Everyone else knows their own slide is in the deck.
  4. Main content, 0:25. You teach the assignment-design framework, now pitched at the level the room asked for.
  5. Close, 1:25. You click Send follow-ups & close session. Each instructor gets a link with prompts for their own course, a short workflow, and a 7-day plan, such as rewriting one assignment by Friday.

How it works in 3 steps

  1. Create the session and open the projector screen

    Sign in, give the workshop a title, and click Create session. The projector screen opens with the QR code. Sessions present in the browser by default, and you can choose a Google Slides file for any session.

  2. Faculty scan and tell you their goal

    Two required answers: a name and what they want from today, plus consent. Role, experience level, and biggest challenge are optional, and those optional answers make each slide sharper.

  3. Present, then follow up

    Click Start presenting, and the deck fills in live in your browser. At the end, Send follow-ups & close session gives every instructor a 7-day follow-up at their own link.

First time? Practice with 3 sample people lets you rehearse the whole flow before the real workshop. Read the full walkthrough.

Why it suits teaching centers

A needs assessment you did not have to send. The goals faculty type become a record of what your campus is asking for. Across several workshops, the themes help you plan the next series.

Follow-through after the session. Workshop ideas often fade by the next week. A 7-day plan tied to each person’s own course gives them a concrete first step for the week that follows.

Your deck, in the format you need. Present in the browser, then download PowerPoint, save a PDF, or copy the deck to Google Slides to edit, share with colleagues, or reuse next semester.

Accessible by design. The attendee form has labelled fields, keyboard and screen-reader support, and high-contrast text. See our accessibility statement.

Privacy answers for your IT and IRB colleagues

  • What is collected: a first name or nickname, the stated goal, and any optional answers or email the attendee chooses to add.
  • Consent: shown on the form, and required before submitting. You can edit the consent wording for your institution.
  • Retention: submissions are anonymized 30 days after the session ends by default. You can trigger it sooner.
  • Google access: optional. If a facilitator connects Google for Slides files, we ask for the drive.file permission only, limited to files LiveSlide.Pro creates.
  • The deck: only signed-in members of the facilitator’s workspace can open it. Exported copies include attendee names and goals, so store them with care.
  • Processors: submission text goes to OpenAI to write the slides. The privacy policy and trust center list the rest.

Questions from faculty developers

Does this work for a mixed room of disciplines?

Yes, that is the room it was designed for. Each slide is written from what one instructor typed about their own goal, so a chemist and a historian get different examples within the same workshop.

Do faculty need to create an account or install anything?

No. Attendees scan a QR code with their phone camera and fill in a single web page. Only the facilitator signs in, with an email address or a Google account.

Can I use it for topics other than AI?

Yes. Active learning, inclusive teaching, assessment design, online course quality, and new-faculty orientation all work the same way: attendees say what they want from the session, and each slide answers that goal.

How is attendee data handled?

Attendees consent on the form before submitting, and email is optional. IP addresses are stored only as one-way hashes. Submissions are anonymized 30 days after the session by default, and you can anonymize a session sooner. Submission text is sent to OpenAI to write the slides.

Is there an education discount?

Yes. Accredited institutions, K-12 districts, public libraries, government agencies, and non-profits get 30% off Pro and Team plans. During the beta, the Founding Beta plan is free. Apply for the education discount.

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