Why take this Copilot course?
Copilot is rapidly improving and catching up on the likes of ChatGPT and Gemini.
This course is designed for businesses who have adopted Copilot but really need to understand how to use it for real world use cases. We can also tailor this course to your specific needs. This course will enable you and your staff to save time, boost productivity, gain practical AI skills and generally get the best out of MS Copilot for your day to day job.
Who is it for?
This course is ideal for anyone who regularly uses Microsoft 365 and wants to leverage AI tools to increase productivity. Whether you’re an office worker, project manager, or business owner, this course will equip you with the practical skills to enhance your everyday tasks. No prior experience with Microsoft Copilot is necessary, but attendees should be familiar with the core Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
We also have other AI courses for Senior Management Teams and general ChatGPT for Work and Business Course.
Course Modules
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Introduction to Generative AI
What is it? Why is it so popular right now? Benefits and Limitations
Full Copilot Chat Walkthrough
How to use the Copilot Chat Interface including Notebooks and Pages
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Copilot In Apps
How to use Copilot in Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Teams & Word
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Best Practice Use of AI Tools
Content ownership, control and how to get the best from AI tools
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Prompting, Training & Conversations
Prompting Frameworks, how to train AI and How to get AI to lead complex conversations
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Image Generation
How and when to use image generation. How to reverse engineer images.
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Meeting Notetaking & Presentations
Copilot for Meeting Notes and Generate Presentations in Powerpoint
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AI Data Analysis
Cleaning and analysing raw data sets. Using Copilot in Excel vs Chat.
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Building Copilot Agents
Build custom tools for regular use cases. What to build and how to build
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Use Cases & Workshop
Explore specific use cases for your business
11
AI Ethics
Pillars of AI ethics and EU AI Act explained
12
Looking Ahead
What's just around the corner with AI
Course Content
This one-day, practical course covers the fundamental skills required to make the most of Microsoft Copilot within the Microsoft 365 environment. Our focus will be on teaching you the essential techniques to enhance your productivity using AI.
During the course, you’ll explore:
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Introduction to Generative AI: Understanding the basics of AI and how it works in the context of Microsoft Copilot.
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Full Copilot Chat Walkthrough: Understand key concepts of using chat, how to use with Work / Web tabs and how to take advantage of Notebooks and Pages.
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Copilot Integration with Microsoft 365: Master how to access and utilise MS Copilot across core apps like Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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Prompting, Training and Conversations: How to craft effective prompts for MS Copilot to improve task automation. We will give you multiple frameworks and techniques to communicate and train Copilot to do your task the way you want them done.
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Real world tasks and use cases: Throughout the modules you will test different techniques and use cases such as how to train AI to write like you, summarise complex content, transform content into presentations, lay foundations for regular tasks and carry out detailed research. If the course is tailored we will adapt the task list to your teams specific use cases.
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Data Analysis with Spreadsheets: Use Copilot’s AI to process and analyse data in Excel more efficiently.
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Meeting Notetaking & Presentations: How to use Copilot to record meetings, prep and follow up. How to use Copilot to plan and generate an entire presentation in minutes.
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Building Copilot Agents: Learn what agents are, how to build and share them with your team.
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Use Case Workshop: Brainstorm and create real use cases you can build and use tomorrow!
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AI Ethics & Looking Ahead: Learn what's important when working with AI and people. find out what's just around the corner!
What to bring
To participate fully in the course, you will need:
Virtual Classroom
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Access to a user account with a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 licence.
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A laptop or device with Microsoft 365 installed.
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A notepad and Pen
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A Webcam (For virtual courses)
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List of day to tasks from your job
Ready to take your productivity to the next level with AI? Join us and learn how to make the most of Microsoft Copilot for your business.