Transform your Madgwick chats and research into professional-sounding podcasts in minutes using the new Podcast Maker MCP tool. You can quickly generate a podcast from your chats to create an engaging audio summary for students, or audio content you can consume on the go.
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Madgwick’s new Nano Banana (aka Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) MCP brings powerful new image editing capabilities to your fingertips. Unlike traditional AI image generators, Nano Banana excels at editing and combining existing images, rather than creating new ones from scratch.
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The MCP Store serves as your central hub for discovering and installing these capabilities. Currently in trial phase, the store is being populated gradually to ensure stability and proper testing.
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The new Model Catalogue in Madgwick takes the guesswork out of selecting AI models by showing which models excel at specific tasks, their technical capabilities, and compatibility with MCPs.
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When the Office for Professional Learning (OPL) team faced a common challenge - students struggling to find information on their placement portal - they turned to AI for a solution. The result was OPIE, a specialised AI assistant designed to help Teacher Education Students navigate the PREXUS MyLearn site more effectively.
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What if you could channel the strategic brilliance of television's most formidable crisis manager for your everyday workplace challenges? That's the aim of The Fixer - a Madgwick assistant that brings the decisive, no-nonsense problem-solving approach of Olivia Pope, legendary 'fixer' of TV series Scandal.
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Understanding how AI processes your conversations reveals why your data stays secure and helps you make informed platform choices.
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The remove response feature in Madgwick helps you maintain cleaner, more focused conversations by deleting unwanted AI responses while preserving your original input for editing.
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When you're managing dozens of Power BI reports with hundreds of pages, finding the right information becomes a significant challenge. Dwayne Hurst, Manager of Analytics Insights and Reporting, recognised this pain point and built a solution that could transform how staff navigate the university's extensive data resources.
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While LLMs can parse tables in files like Word or PDF, for important information it is best practice to convert tables into a specifically LLM-friendly format called markdown. This ensures the structure is as clear and readable as possible for the AI, leading to more accurate results.
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Madgwick uses two distinct systems to remember information: permanent Knowledge for foundational facts and evolving Memory for conversational context. Understanding how to use both is key to building more effective and reliable AI assistants. The most important rule is simple: if you want an assistant to always know something, add it to its Knowledge files.
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Madgwick assistants are designed not just for individual use, but for collaboration. Sharing a well-crafted assistant allows your colleagues to benefit from your work, either by using the tool you have built or by cloning it to create their own version. This is a simple way to distribute effective workflows and share expertise across your team and the university.
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A practical innovation from UNE's PASS team demonstrates how thoughtful change management can turn AI fear into adoption success. The project tackles a common challenge across the university: managing high-volume administrative queries while empowering users to embrace new technology.
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Madgwick’s AI platform includes a screen-sharing feature that enhances your workflow by giving the AI assistant real-time visibility of your screen.
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Get started on creating your custom AI Teaching Assistant – without even leaving Word. This new approach offers an easy entry to an efficiency-enhancing assistant designed by UNE staff for our use.
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