Course
Digicomp Code MCPLI
M365 Copilot Adoption w/ Business Objective Focus – Intermediate | Flexible («MCPLI»)
MS-4018
Course facts
- Leveraging the power of past meetings: Transforming old meeting data into innovative, inspiring agenda ideas for your next successes with Copilot
- Preparing meetings like a pro: Optimizing your Copilot prompts for perfect preparation and crystal-clear results
- Continuously creating new content from your subject area and drawing on your trusted personal data
- Mastering the flood of information: Comparing traditional research with AI-supported knowledge acquisition and using the best methods for your business (deep research)
- Turning information into action: Analyzing data, reports, and processes to create concise decision-making bases
Recommended course version: This self-developed course covers the topics of the official Microsoft course«MS-4018: Draft, analyze, and present with Microsoft 365 Copilot».
In this course, you will learn how to simplify complex use cases with the help of Copilot, develop individual scenarios, and optimally integrate AI into existing processes. After completing the course, you will be able to use Copilot for demanding tasks and design innovative solutions for your team.
Content:
1 Advanced features of M365 Copilot
- Objective: You will learn about advanced features in M365 Copilot and how to further optimize your workflows.
- Demo: M365 Copilot Creator, Copilot Pages and Notebooks, using standard agents
2 Meeting Effectiveness
- Objective: You will be able to use Copilot to connect multiple meeting-related tasks with a single process and know how to optimize your personal prompt templates.
- Exercise: Prepare an agenda and content for the meeting based on several previous meetings and discussions.
3 Content Creation (Creating content for your subject area)
- Objective: You can use Copilot to connect multiple content creation tasks to a process and understand the benefits of custom agents. You know how to optimize your personal prompt templates.
- Exercise: Create a topic notebook and design prompts to automate the recurring creation of content from this topic area.
4 Information Access & Functional Pain Points (Performing complex research)
- Objective: You will recognize the difference between simple information retrieval and complex research, in which Copilot independently optimizes the result in several steps (deep research).
- Exercise: Complex research with the Copilot Researcher Agent
5 Efficiency (Analyzing and processing data)
- Objective: You will be able to combine multiple efficiency-related tasks into one process with Copilot and know how to optimize your personal prompt templates.
- Exercise: Analyze data to understand reports and processes. Summarize the results as a basis for a meeting or phone call.
This training is structured in four business objective areas and contains theory and hands-on lab exercises focusing on processes with M365 Copilot.
This training is intended for users who already have experience with M365 Copilot and prompting and want to take their skills to the next level.
Basic user knowledge equivalent to the following course (or equivalent knowledge) and at least 2 months of practical experience with M365 Copilot:
The configuration of M365 Copilot in your company may differ from the standard configuration. All standard functions are available in the training environment.
This «flexible» live virtual course is scheduled over a period of 2 weeks. During this time, 4 instructor-led sessions of 1.75 hours each take place, i.e., the instructor supervises the participants live. All live sessions of a course will take place in the morning (8:30 am - 10:15 am or 10:30 am - 12:15 pm CET). The 4 sessions of 1.75 hours each correspond to one course day.
By clicking on «Timetable» when enrolling, you can already see when the live sessions will take place. Of course, these sessions are recorded and therefore available for the class afterwards.
Everything takes place on one Microsoft Teams channel per class. The participants have access to all sessions and information within the class for the duration of the course.