Microsoft Copilot Essentials (Video)

Description

Learn Copilot in the Flow of Work. Prepare to pass the all-new Microsoft Professional Certificate for Copilot empowerment.

Brand new Microsoft Professional Certificate for Copilot empowerment of new learners--from students to professionals looking for critical skills to raise the bar for employability. Those looking for the new Professional Certificates will be early in their professional career, entry level, or career-changer/builder. This is a beginner-friendly course designed to help learners build practical AI fluency and Copilot skills for modern work scenarios.

This tightly structured, scenario-driven ~4-hour Copilot Essentials course gives beginners and early-career learners the skills to apply Copilot across Microsoft 365 immediately and confidently. The course emphasizes practical fluency, not theory, and maps directly to the target audiences outlined in the Microsoft Essentials framework: secondary students, higher-ed, entry-level professionals, career changers, career builders, and corporate upskilling cohorts.

Skill Level:

• Beginner

Learn How To:

• Describe the role of Copilot in modern work and basic LLM guardrails
• Apply Copilot effectively in Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Edge
• Use structured prompting patterns to generate, revise, and evaluate work outputs
• Distinguish when Copilot is useful versus when it introduces risk, and build repeatable workflows

Course requirement:

Pre-requisites:

• Basic familiarity with Microsoft 365 apps (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)

Who Should Take This Course:

Job titles:

• Early-in-career professional, entry level, career changer/builder

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

Copilot Foundations

• What Copilot is (and isnt)
• How LLMs support modern work
• Data privacy, boundaries, & safe usage
• Prompt structures that consistently work

Copilot for Communication (Outlook & Teams)

• Email triage, rewriting, summarization
• Meeting prep, meeting recaps, & action items
• Teams chat summarization & message drafting
• Practical Monday morning workflows

Copilot for Writing & Creativity (Word & PowerPoint)

• Draft documents with context
• Refine tone, structure, clarity
• Turn briefs into presentations
• Visual generation fundamentals

Copilot for Analysis (Excel & Edge)

• Text-to-analysis prompts in Excel
• Natural language queries
• Exploratory analysis workflows
• Use Copilot in Edge for research & synthesis

Scenario Labs

• Student scenario: research & writing workflow
• Career changer scenario: portfolio & skills development
• Corporate employee scenario: project update & report creation
• Early career scenario: planning, summarizing, & interview preparation

Responsible Use, Next Steps, & Exam Readiness

• When not to use Copilot
• AI hallucination guardrails
• Ethical & organizational considerations
• Key patterns for the final exam

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