CPD Answers

If this is your first time using Glowmeet, the National CPD Team can arrange a support session.  This will take place a week before your CPDMeet and last approximately 45 minutes. This is likely to be a telephone/online session.

Before the support session please have a look at the following links to give you an idea of what Glowmeet looks like and what it can do.

• Using Glowmeet
• How to use Glowmeet

Please contact Susan Lafferty at S.Lafferty@LTScotland.org.uk or 0141 282 5207. Susan will also prompt you for some or all of the following information for the CPDMeet page:

• a picture of you
• some bio information
• title of the CPDMeet
• outcomes of the CPDMeet
• are you happy to take questions in advance of the CPDMeet?
• are you happy to answer questions for a limited period after the CPDMeet?

This will be used to build the CPDMeet page on Glow

On the day of the CPDMeet

1. Please log-in 30 minutes before the start
2. Please load pages / slides in advance
3. Please have fun!

CPDMeet is the name the CPD Team uses for live CPD sessions on Glow. Generally they use Glow’s web conferencing technology, Glowmeet.

Each CPDMeet has its own CPDMeet page on Glow where would-be participants can see details, sign-up and interact before, during and after the CPDMeet.

Typically, each CPDMeet will be promoted in a variety of ways including CPDFind. CPDFind is the national database of CPD run by LTScotland and the National CPD Team.

Subject to permissions from the CPDMeet participants, the events are recorded and made available as an archive for follow-up work.

You can see forthcoming CPDMeets in the CPDMeet library on Glow

You will find all the CPDChallenges on the library page of the CPDChallenge Glow group. We will also do our best to enter them as opportunities into CPDFind. Just type cpdchall into the CPDFind search box.

Visit the CPDChallenge Glow group …

If you see this symbol on an agenda or an invite, it means the CPD event you are attending will be using Glow, so bring a laptop if you can! It may mean:

• preparation for the event is happening on Glow
• discussions are being recorded on a Glow group
• other colleagues are accessing the event remotely using Glowmeet
• there is a ‘back-channel’ discussion to the event using the Glowchat tool
• resources will be accessed or added to Glowgroups during the event

Sometimes +Glow will be optional and sometimes not, so check with the organiser to be on the safe side!

If you can improve on this advice, please leave a comment, thanks!