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Dive into the next wave of digital productivity with our course centered on Microsoft 365 Copilot. As impactful as the smartphone revolution, Microsoft 365 Copilot is poised to redefine how we approach myriad tasks, bringing the nuanced capabilities of generative AI to your fingertips. With this course, discover how to leverage this powerful assistant in your daily routine, transforming every challenge into an opportunity for excellence.
Explore innovative ways Microsoft 365 Copilot can accelerate your workflow while ensuring precision and depth. For instance, after a brainstorming session on a Teams call, Copilot can help you sift through the conversation, pinpointing ambiguities and providing clarity that leads to a fortified plan of action. It can also adapt written content to resonate with specific audiences, turning generic messages into targeted communications crafted to engage and convert.
This course transcends beyond merely getting things done—it's about achieving the highest standards in problem-solving and producing solutions that endure. Microsoft 365 Copilot doesn't offer just speed; it offers sophistication. Learn to invoke its advanced AI to review drafts, anticipate project hurdles, or reframe proposals, ensuring your deliverables are not just completed, but are crafted with the insight and finesse of a seasoned expert. By embedding Microsoft 365 Copilot's intelligence into your processes, you'll raise the bar on what it means to work smart—creating, collaborating, and conquering tasks with unprecedented confidence and creativity.
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32 videos1 reading2 assignments
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32 videos•Total 172 minutes
What is Copilot?•8 minutes
What is a Large Language Model and What is Generative AI?•3 minutes
Which Tool Do I Use? (part 1)•6 minutes
Which Tool Do I Use? (part 2)•5 minutes
Think Through Problems in Chat First, Then Build Documents, Presentations, and Spreadsheets•3 minutes
Think More, Not Less, Ask for Options•9 minutes
Five Components of Prompts•6 minutes
Context & the Flipped Interaction Pattern•7 minutes
Information & Retrieval Augmented Generation •5 minutes
Citations in the Conversation•1 minute
Examples & In-context Learning•11 minutes
Output Formatting: the Template Pattern •5 minutes
Trigger: Sending the Chat Down the Right Path•5 minutes
Prompt Patterns & The Persona Pattern•7 minutes
Building Personas with Content•6 minutes
Audience Persona•5 minutes
Question Generator Pattern•6 minutes
The Keen Pattern•4 minutes
The ACHIEVE Framework•2 minutes
A: Aid Human Coordination•6 minutes
Related Tasks•3 minutes
C: Cut Tedious Tasks•4 minutes
H: Help Provide a Safety Net•5 minutes
IEV: Inspire Better Problem Solving & Creativity•5 minutes
Skeptic Pattern•5 minutes
E: Enable Great Ideas to Scale Faster•6 minutes
Final Thoughts & Thank You•2 minutes
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Introducing Elisa Graceffo•4 minutes
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Use Cases & Value•7 minutes
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Champions & Training•6 minutes
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Change Management•11 minutes
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Generative AI Gains•5 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Additional Resources•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 360 minutes
Exploring Options•180 minutes
Prompting Basics•180 minutes
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Loved from the start, when Jules introduces the idea of booster. From there on an amazing show of possible usages and opportunities.
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Jules communicates and explains very well. This course showed me a whole new way of thinking how AI is useful for augmenting my efforts to create and analyze. Thanks for this excellent course.
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Excellent course. Practical examples reinforce important concepts related to getting the best from Copilot.
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