Getting Started with Copilot for Microsoft 365 

Unlock the full potential of your workforce with our cutting-edge instructor led Microsoft 365 Copilot training course. In today's fast-paced business environment, staying ahead of the competition requires leveraging the most advanced tools and technologies. Microsoft 365 Copilot is revolutionising the way teams work, boosting productivity, and enhancing collaboration across organisations.

Training Benefits

By investing in this training, you'll:

1. Accelerate productivity: Enable your team to complete tasks faster and more efficiently, freeing up valuable time for strategic initiatives.
2. Enhance creativity: Empower employees to generate fresh ideas and content with AI-powered suggestions and insights.
3. Improve decision-making: Equip your staff with data-driven insights and analysis tools to make informed choices quickly.
4. Streamline collaboration: Foster seamless teamwork with AI-enhanced communication and project management features.
5. Future-proof your workforce: Prepare your employees for the evolving digital landscape and stay ahead of industry trends.

Duration

This course can be delivered as :

• 3x 1hr webinars 
• 3x 2hr workshop
• 2x 0.5 day workshop
• 1X 1 day workshop

Overview:

This Instructor led Copilot training course will introduce you to the features and benefits of Copilot for Microsoft 365, the AI-powered assistant that helps you create, collaborate and communicate more effectively with Microsoft 365 apps. 

You will learn how to use Copilot to generate content, get suggestions, automate tasks, and access relevant information across Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Teams, Loop, Whiteboard and Microsoft 365 BizChat. This course will help you avoid digital overload by using CoPilot features.

Target Audience:

This course is suitable for professionals, business users, and individuals who want to use the Planner and To Do apps in Microsoft 365 to organise their tasks and collaborate with others. The target audience includes:Office workers

• Project managers
• Small business owners
• IT professionals
• Any individual or team looking to enhance file management and collaboration processes.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Explain what Copilot is and how it works with Microsoft 365 apps.
2. Use Copilot to generate content, such as documents, presentations, emails, and notes, with natural language and data inputs.
3. Use Copilot to get suggestions, such as formatting, grammar, design, and best practices, for improving your content quality and style,
4. Use Copilot to access relevant information, such as facts, figures, definitions, and sources, from the web and your own files.
5. Use Copilot to catch up on communications across Microsoft 365.
6. Create a Copilot Agent to retrieve specific information

Topics include:

Copilot Fundamentals

1. How does Microsoft 365 Copilot work
2. The GCES Framework for prompt engineering
3. Introduction to Copilot and its integration with Microsoft 365 apps.

Working with Copilot BizChat

1. Accessing & Navigating Copilot BizChat.
2. Using Copilot BizChat for Web & Work based queries
3. Automating tasks and workflows within BizChat.
4. Copilot Pages

Copilot for Word

1. Create full drafts from scratch based on user prompts.
2. Generate content by referencing existing documents or outlines.
3. Automatically rewrite and rephrase sections of text.
4. Suggest edits to enhance clarity and quality.
5. Summarize lengthy documents into concise bullet points or paragraphs.
6. Convert text into tables for better visualization of data.
7. Highlight inconsistencies within the text for review.
8. Answer questions about the document
9. Multi-document synthesis (BizChat)

Copilot for Outlook

1. Summarizing individual emails or entire threads, highlighting key points and action items.
2. Generating comprehensive email drafts based on prompts or existing email content,
3. Suggestions for improving email content, including tone and clarity.
4. Creating meeting invitations directly from email threads, pre-filling titles and agendas.

Copilot for Teams

1. Navigating Copilot in Teams.
2. Summarize meeting discussions and key points
3. In & post Meeting Assistance
4. Chat and Channel Support

Copilot for PowerPoint

1. Create presentations from scratch using natural language prompts
2. Create presentations from Word documents or PDFs
3. Generate images to enhance slide impact
4. Use the design tool for slide design and layout suggestions

Copilot for Excel

1. Creating and editing spreadsheets with Copilot.
2. Analyzing data using Copilot's suggestions.
3. Automating repetitive tasks in Excel.
4. Accessing and incorporating relevant information into spreadsheets

 Copilot for OneNote

1. Create plans, ideas, and lists based on prompts.
2. Summarize notes into concise bullet points or structured formats.
3. Rewrite a paragraphs or selected text.

Copilot for Whiteboard

1. Generate new ideas for brainstorming sessions based on prompts
2. Organize and categorize ideas automatically
3. Categorize ideas automatically

Introduction to Copilot Agents

1. What are Agents
2. Different agent types
3. Create an agent Copilot in SharePoint.