Copilot AI Skills 2027
€ 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 and fully utilise Anthropic's Cowork in Microsoft Copilot. No technical background required. Just a curious mind.
Course structure
Hands-on throughout with live demos, guided exercises, and practical examples drawn from real roles and scenarios.
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Session 1 · 14 January, 10am - 11am
Setup, safety and first prompts
One hour, one week before the main teaching starts. You arrive on Day 1 ready to work, not troubleshooting licences. We confirm you have the right Copilot licence, check access to Copilot in Office Apps, Chat plus all the latest features, and make sure everything runs from the first minute.
Session 2 · 21 January, 10am - 12pm
Prompting and Agents
Two hours. You build structured prompts that summarise reports, draft client communications and check figures against source documents with consistency every time. You then create simple Agents that automate recurring work like month-end commentary, meeting follow-ups and document review. Concepts are taught by doing, not by watching slides.
Session 3 · 28 January, 10am - 12pm
Knowledge bases, workflows and Cowork
Two hours. You assemble searchable knowledge bases from your own policies, reports and client files so Copilot works only with your sources. You then connect workflows across Outlook, Excel, Word and Teams so reporting and handoffs happen without the manual stitching, and you see Copilot Cowork handling multi-step work across M365.
Session 4 · 4 February, 10am - 11am
Workshop
One hour. No new teaching. You bring one real task from your current workload and finish it in the room, with facilitator support and peer learning across roles. Everyone leaves with at least one output they can use the next day.
"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.
Frequently asked questions
None at all. Our courses are specifically designed for working professionals, executives, and design teams who want practical AI skills, not a computer science lecture.
- If you are taking a Copilot course, basic familiarity with standard Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, Outlook) is all you need.
- For Claude Code, Claude handles the actual coding while you direct it using plain English.
- For industry-specific paths from the Built Environment, we focus entirely on practical workflows, layout options, and project management—never complex programming.
Yes, absolutely. Security and confidentiality are our highest priorities, especially for our AEC and Finance cohorts:
- Data Privacy: Microsoft Copilot and Claude enterprise plans respect your existing corporate IT permissions. The AI only sees data you are already authorized to access, and your inputs are never used to train public models.
- Course Work: Live workshop sessions use anonymized dummy data so you can focus entirely on mastering techniques in a safe environment. You will then be given clear frameworks to confidently apply those exact same prompts to your live, proprietary project files between sessions.
The market is flooded with generic "how to write prompts" videos. Our edge is entirely different:
- Live, Expert Facilitation: You are learning in real-time alongside an executive-level peer group, guided by practitioners from companies actively deploying AI in the real world.
- Always Up-to-Date: The second an AI model drops a new feature, we rebuild our exercises. You are getting a cutting-edge playground, not stale theory.
- Workflow Integration: We don't just teach tools in a vacuum; we show you exactly how they talk to your existing ecosystem - whether that’s integrating Claude with Microsoft 365 or feeding AI-generated concepts downstream into Revit, Rhino, and Photoshop.
We assume zero knowledge and take everyone from 0 to 60. We start at the basics, customising your tool and writing a first prompt that actually returns something useful, then build from there.
- People who arrive more advanced consistently tell us they still pick something up in every session, so we believe we are hitting the right notes.
- You do need a basic level of digital competence: logging in, copying and pasting, moving between windows. We teach the AI, not the computer.
Yes, completely. Governance and ethics are built into every course we deliver rather than bolted on as a closing session.
- What is safe to put into a paid Copilot tenancy and what is not, in the terms your own IT policy uses.
- The safeguards worth having in place before people start using it on live client work.
- Where the output can be trusted, and where sign-off stays with a named human.
Online, live, and led by an instructor. These are not pre-recorded videos. Questions get asked and answered as we go, and our instructors are good at making sure everyone takes part.
- Two screens are worth having: one to watch us on, one to practise on.
- Recordings are provided, usually within 45 minutes of the session ending.
- You keep the session recordings, the slide decks and the workbooks for 60 days after the course finishes.
Several sessions, and deliberately so. We want you to go away and use what you learned between them.
- Run a prompt on a task you were going to do anyway. Try a skill on real work.
- You come back having felt what it is like, which is when the questions get good and the next session lands properly.
- A single long day looks efficient on a calendar and teaches considerably less.
