Summary

Our new course, Using Microsoft Copilot 365, gives learners a hands-on introduction to Microsoft's generative AI assistant across Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Teams. It covers everything from analysing data and drafting documents to summarising meetings and extending Copilot's reach with plugins and graph connectors. Now available in the [Collection] collection.

Generative AI is no longer something that lives outside your workflow, Microsoft has embedded it directly into the tools most professionals already use every day. Our new course, Using Microsoft Copilot 365, gives learners a practical, application-by-application introduction to Copilot across the full Microsoft 365 suite.

Using a real-world business case study, learners see how Copilot can analyse spreadsheets, build presentations, draft documents, manage email, and extract insights from meetings, all without leaving the familiar Microsoft 365 environment.

🎯 What This Course Enables

Learners will be able to:

• Describe what Copilot is, how it integrates with Microsoft 365, and when an additional subscription is required

• Analyse datasets and surface pivot chart insights in Excel using natural language prompts

• Add formula-driven columns, sort, filter, and format spreadsheets without needing to know the underlying formula

• Create and edit PowerPoint presentations from scratch, including slides, images, and speaker notes

• Draft, rewrite, and extend Word documents using Copilot's generation and rewrite tools

• Summarise email threads and draft tone-controlled responses using Copilot in Outlook

• Enable meeting transcription in Teams and use Copilot to extract decisions, actions, and talking points

• Use Copilot Chat to draw on knowledge from Microsoft 365 files, emails, meetings, and the wider internet

• Write effective prompts that produce accurate, relevant outputs from Copilot

• Extend Copilot's capabilities using plugins for real-time external data and graph connectors for static knowledge bases

📚 Course Highlights

• Copilot in Excel: Covers both general insight generation (pivot charts, trend spotting) and specific data questions, giving learners a complete workflow for AI-assisted analysis.

• Spreadsheet Adjustments: Shows how plain-language prompts can add formula-driven columns, apply conditional highlighting, and sort or filter data — no formula knowledge required.

• Building Presentations: Demonstrates how to create a full presentation from a Word document or prompt, complete with layouts, images, and speaker notes, in seconds.

• Writing in Word: Explores drafting text from scratch, rewriting selected passages, and using the "Inspire Me" option when writer's block strikes.

• Email Management in Outlook: Covers thread summarisation and tailored email drafting, with learner control over tone and length.

• Meeting Intelligence in Teams: Shows how to enable transcription, access Copilot during or after a meeting, and extract what was said, agreed, and actioned.

• Copilot Chat: Introduces the cross-app chat experience that pulls together files, emails, meetings, and external knowledge in a single interface.

• Plugins and Graph Connectors: Explains the difference between plugins (real-time external data) and graph connectors (static knowledge bases), and when each is the right tool.

💡 Why This Matters

Most organisations already pay for Microsoft 365. Copilot turns that existing investment into a genuine productivity multiplier - but only if people know how to use it. This course gives learners the practical skills to get immediate value from Copilot across every application in their daily workflow.

📍 Now available in the AI Fundamentals collection.