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Microsoft 365 Copilot: Personal Productivity for All

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Microsoft 365 Copilot: Personal Productivity for All

Instructor: Dr. Jules White

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.7

311 reviews

Beginner level

Recommended experience

9 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • How to assess recordings of meetings to improve plans, anticipate next steps, and help teams improve their coordination

  • Which Microsoft 365 Copilot tool to use for which task and when to switch between them

  • How to create and revise content using Generative AI to target different audiences or be personalized for marketing

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Assessments

2 assignments

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Microsoft 365 Copilot for Leaders Specialization
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There is 1 module in this course

Dive into the next wave of digital productivity with our course centered on Microsoft 365 Copilot. As impactful as the smartphone revolution, Microsoft 365 Copilot is poised to redefine how we approach myriad tasks, bringing the nuanced capabilities of generative AI to your fingertips. With this course, discover how to leverage this powerful assistant in your daily routine, transforming every challenge into an opportunity for excellence.

Explore innovative ways Microsoft 365 Copilot can accelerate your workflow while ensuring precision and depth. For instance, after a brainstorming session on a Teams call, Copilot can help you sift through the conversation, pinpointing ambiguities and providing clarity that leads to a fortified plan of action. It can also adapt written content to resonate with specific audiences, turning generic messages into targeted communications crafted to engage and convert. This course transcends beyond merely getting things doneβ€”it's about achieving the highest standards in problem-solving and producing solutions that endure. Microsoft 365 Copilot doesn't offer just speed; it offers sophistication. Learn to invoke its advanced AI to review drafts, anticipate project hurdles, or reframe proposals, ensuring your deliverables are not just completed, but are crafted with the insight and finesse of a seasoned expert. By embedding Microsoft 365 Copilot's intelligence into your processes, you'll raise the bar on what it means to work smartβ€”creating, collaborating, and conquering tasks with unprecedented confidence and creativity.

What's included

32 videos1 reading2 assignments

32 videosβ€’Total 172 minutes
  • What is Copilot?β€’8 minutes
  • What is a Large Language Model and What is Generative AI?β€’3 minutes
  • Which Tool Do I Use? (part 1)β€’6 minutes
  • Which Tool Do I Use? (part 2)β€’5 minutes
  • Think Through Problems in Chat First, Then Build Documents, Presentations, and Spreadsheetsβ€’3 minutes
  • Think More, Not Less, Ask for Optionsβ€’9 minutes
  • Five Components of Promptsβ€’6 minutes
  • Context & the Flipped Interaction Patternβ€’7 minutes
  • Information & Retrieval Augmented Generation β€’5 minutes
  • Citations in the Conversationβ€’1 minute
  • Examples & In-context Learningβ€’11 minutes
  • Output Formatting: the Template Pattern β€’5 minutes
  • Trigger: Sending the Chat Down the Right Pathβ€’5 minutes
  • Prompt Patterns & The Persona Patternβ€’7 minutes
  • Building Personas with Contentβ€’6 minutes
  • Audience Personaβ€’5 minutes
  • Question Generator Patternβ€’6 minutes
  • The Keen Patternβ€’4 minutes
  • The ACHIEVE Frameworkβ€’2 minutes
  • A: Aid Human Coordinationβ€’6 minutes
  • Related Tasksβ€’3 minutes
  • C: Cut Tedious Tasksβ€’4 minutes
  • H: Help Provide a Safety Netβ€’5 minutes
  • IEV: Inspire Better Problem Solving & Creativityβ€’5 minutes
  • Skeptic Patternβ€’5 minutes
  • E: Enable Great Ideas to Scale Fasterβ€’6 minutes
  • Final Thoughts & Thank Youβ€’2 minutes
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot: Introducing Elisa Graceffoβ€’4 minutes
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot: Use Cases & Valueβ€’7 minutes
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot: Champions & Trainingβ€’6 minutes
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot: Change Managementβ€’11 minutes
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot: Generative AI Gainsβ€’5 minutes
1 readingβ€’Total 10 minutes
  • Additional Resourcesβ€’10 minutes
2 assignmentsβ€’Total 360 minutes
  • Exploring Optionsβ€’180 minutes
  • Prompting Basicsβ€’180 minutes

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Reviewed on Nov 28, 2024

Loved from the start, when Jules introduces the idea of booster. From there on an amazing show of possible usages and opportunities.

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Reviewed on Oct 6, 2025

Jules communicates and explains very well. This course showed me a whole new way of thinking how AI is useful for augmenting my efforts to create and analyze. Thanks for this excellent course.

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Reviewed on Nov 28, 2025

Excellent course. Practical examples reinforce important concepts related to getting the best from Copilot.

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