Full course description
Date and time
Face to face: Tuesday 1 September 2026, 12.30 pm to 4.00 pm
Follow up webinar: Thursday 8 October 2026, 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm
Delivery mode
Blended
Audience
Non-teaching staff - admin, reception, finance, operations, communications, and executive support
Cost
- Course Fees: Fully Funded. We have secured a grant to ensure the program is available to you at no cost
- Admin Fee: $100. A small contribution that helps us cover the "basics" like hosting and technical support
Description
The third in the AI & Digital Skills for School Operations series, this session helps participants to move beyond one-off prompts to repeatable workflows. Learn to identify the recurring tasks that drain your week and design AI-assisted shortcuts you can reuse.
Participants will learn:
- Spotting the right tasks to automate (and the ones to leave alone)
- Creating reusable templates for recurring admin work
- Generating meeting agendas, minutes, and action summaries
- Producing reports and basic documentation from raw notes or data
- Stacking small AI shortcuts to reduce repetitive workload
- Tracking what's working so improvements stick
In-session practice
Participants leave with at least two reusable prompt templates tailored to their role.
Follow-up webinar
Show-and-tell of templates in active use. What stuck, what didn't, and what to refine next.
Key takeaways
- Learn to spot tasks that can be automated with AI and create reusable templates for recurring admin work
- Learn to stack small AI shortcuts to reduce repetitive workload
Presenter information
Dr Tim Kitchen
Dr Kitchen has been an educator for over 30 years, and is considered one of Australia’s leading voices in digital creativity and education innovation. A passionate advocate for empowering students and teachers through creative technologies, Tim has taught across primary, secondary, and higher education and has inspired thousands of teachers, students and school support staff through his workshops and keynotes. A bestselling author and frequent presenter at national and international education events, Tim was Adobe’s Senior Education Specialist for Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia from 2013 to 2025. Today, he continues to share his expertise and enthusiasm exploring new ways to spark creativity in the learning & teaching process with a focus on safe & ethical AI use through his consultancy called CTL - Creative Teaching & Learning and his work as an Associate with The Next Word and Senior Consultant with CulturePathAI.