Copilot AI Skills
€ 500
What you'll learn
This course shows you how to use Microsoft Copilot confidently, safely, and effectively across everyday work inside Microsoft 365 — in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and Copilot Chat.
You will move from "I've tried it a bit" to confident, capable Copilot use, with practical patterns you can repeat across your working week.
- Use Copilot in your core M365 apps to save time across emails, meetings, documents, and reporting
- Reduce overload by letting Copilot summarise, organise, and create strong first drafts
- Use Copilot Chat to answer questions using your organisation's content
- Understand what Copilot can and cannot see, and how permissions affect results
- Build and reuse simple Copilot Agents for consistent, repeatable outputs
Who it's for
Microsoft 365 users who want to get real value from Copilot — not just dabble with it. No technical background required.
Course structure
Delivered as a live half-day session with a bonus hackathon one week later. Hands-on throughout with live demos, guided exercises, and practical examples from real roles and scenarios.
Pre-Module · Optional
Tech check
A half-hour session one week before the main course to confirm you have the right Copilot licence and are ready to go from the first minute of the workshop.
Live Workshop
Where the magic happens
A four-hour workshop where you will learn how to use Microsoft Copilot confidently, safely, and effectively across everyday work inside Microsoft 365 - in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and Copilot Chat.
You will learn how to use Copilot in Outlook to:
- Summarise long or complex email threads to extract decisions and actions
- Review inbox content by topic, by person, or across a time period
- Identify what genuinely needs a response
- Draft clear, professional emails while keeping control of tone and content
The focus is on spending less time reading and more time acting.
You will learn how to:
- Ask plain‑English questions of Excel data
- Add calculated columns, flags and categories using Copilot
- Identify trends, comparisons and outliers
- Create tables and charts directly from prompts
- Analyse across multiple Excel files using Copilot Chat
Both in‑file analysis and cross‑file analysis are covered.
You will learn how to:
- Draft structured documents in Word from a clear brief
- Rewrite and improve existing content
- Control tone, structure and level of detail
- Create PowerPoint decks from prompts or existing documents
- Improve existing slide decks using Claude for editorial refinement
Clear guidance is given on when to use Copilot and when Claude is the better tool.
You will learn how to:
- Use Copilot Chat to analyse across files and datasets
- Reference documents and spreadsheets directly
- Ask business questions that span teams or time periods
- Produce short management summaries from complex material
This is where Copilot moves beyond task support into decision support.
What this course is (and is not)
This course is:
- Practical and hands‑on
- Focused on everyday Microsoft 365 work
- Grounded in realistic scenarios
- Clear about limitations as well as benefits
This course is not:
- A technical or developer course
- An automation or workflow‑building programme
- A theory session or product demo
What you leave with
By the end of the session, you will:
- Know where Copilot genuinely saves time
- Have prompt patterns you can reuse immediately
- Be more confident working across Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Have produced real outputs during the session
What They're Saying...
"The Microsoft Copilot course was fantastic! The course leader explained complex concepts in a way that was easy to understand and highly practical."
About the instructor
Beau Warren
Microsoft Copilot specialist
Beau Warren leads IT and AI adoption at The Panel since 2022 and has worked with the AI Institute since 2024 to bring practical AI skills to professionals. Beau is known for sharing real-world ways to use AI that people can put to work straight away.
