Artificial Intelligence (AI) has evolved considerably over the years. As a modern day professional, it is important for you to understand how to leverage this emerging tool to augment and assist you with your work. The evolution of AI highlights the transition from simple automation to sophisticated, adaptive systems that can perform complex tasks and make autonomous decisions. Collectively, these elements underscore the transformative potential of AI in revolutionizing industries, enhancing human capabilities, and driving technological progress.

This course utilizes a learning progression model to help you learn and build skills related to the course objectives, daily technology interactions, and career skills needed across a variety of fields. This learning methodology uses a series of steps to contextualize what you’re learning, elaborate on areas where additional instruction is needed, and provide relevance through practice and personalized feedback. You’ll then apply what you learned and demonstrate the skills you’ve gained through a series of activities and quizzes.

This one-day course is composed of two parts – Getting started with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Empower your workforce with Microsoft 365 Copilot Use Cases. The first part of the course introduces you to Copilot for Microsoft 365, examines how you can use Copilot throughout the various Microsoft 365 apps, explores best practices for using Copilot and building effective prompts, and examines how you can extend Copilot. The second part of this training content is really the heart of this course. Students perform a series of hands-on exercises involving ten Use Cases – Executives, Sales, Marketing, Finance, IT, HR, Operations, Communications, Customer Service, and Legal. These exercises focus on using Copilot in various Microsoft 365 apps (such as Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and so on) to complete a series of common business-related tasks pertaining to each Use Case. To complete the Use Case exercises in this course, each student must have access to a Microsoft 365 subscription (BYOS) in which they’re licensed to use Microsoft 365 Copilot. Each student must also have a Microsoft OneDrive account, since Copilot requires OneDrive to complete the file sharing tasks used throughout the Use Case exercises.

Discover ways to craft effective and contextual prompts for Microsoft 365 Copilot that create, simplify, transform, and compile content across Microsoft 365 applications. Learn the importance of providing a clear goal, context, source, and expectation in your prompt for the best results. This course covers real world scenarios and examples using Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, OneNote, and Chat.

Learn the knowledge and skills to drive enablement of Microsoft 365 Copilot across your organization. Explore effective strategies, including the Microsoft 365 Copilot user enablement framework to help you create and implement a robust adoption plan.

Discover how Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 elevates workplace productivity and innovation. This experience, tailored for the modern business leader, and provides insights on crafting contextual prompts for Copilot, along with engaging use case exercises that showcase seamless integration into daily business workflows.

In this learning path, you will learn how to create custom copilots with Copilot Studio and will get the opportunity to practice your skills in a guided project.