Phase 2
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's assistant, woven through Windows and the Microsoft 365 apps.
Level 1 · Foundations
- The Copilot interface tour: which Copilot are you actually using?
- Five everyday things Copilot is good at
- Prompting Copilot with work context
- Guided walkthrough: summarise an email thread and draft a reply
- Hands-on: run the core Copilot loop in the free chat
- Copilot's real limits, and how to work around them
- Checkpoint: Microsoft Copilot: Foundations
Level 2 · Practitioner
- Copilot in Word: draft, rewrite, summarise and edit
- Copilot in Excel: formulas, analysis and editing your data
- Copilot in PowerPoint: build a deck from a document
- Copilot in Outlook and Teams: inbox and meetings
- Pages, Notebooks and agents: Copilot beyond the chat box
- Hands-on: an end-to-end workflow across Excel and Word
- Checkpoint: Microsoft Copilot: Practitioner
Level 3 · Power User
- Build your own declarative agent with Agent Builder
- Where Copilot Studio begins, and what 'agentic' really means
- What Copilot can and can't see, and the conversation to have with IT
- The natural handoff from Copilot to Power Automate
- Capstone: build a real declarative agent and a one-page rollout note
- Checkpoint: Microsoft Copilot: Power User