Copilot Standard Edition for M365

This course empowers professionals to work smarter and faster across the apps they use every day. Participants learn how to craft high‑quality prompts, use Copilot confidently and securely, and apply its capabilities across Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and real-world business scenarios.

This half day course is designed for M365 users they dont have a full Copilot license - there is still so much you can do using Copilot within the Microsoft Applications.

There are no pre-requisites for this course.

The course builds practical skills—like summarising information, generating documents and presentations, analysing data, and improving meetings—while also strengthening broader competencies such as clear communication, productivity, and decision‑making.

By the end, learners leave with repeatable prompt patterns, best practices, and hands‑on experience they can immediately apply in their role.

Foundations of Copilot for Microsoft 365

• Understand what Copilot Standard is and its capabilities/limitations
• Identify which M365 apps it integrates with
• Learn safe and secure usage principles

Mastering Effective Prompting

• Build confidence with high quality prompts
• Apply the GCSE structure

Copilot in Outlook

• Improve email triage efficiency
• Draft responses and summaries
• Create tasks and follow-ups

Copilot in Word

• Create documents efficiently
• Rewrite, restructure, and refine content

Copilot in Excel

• Understand and analyse data using natural language
• Identify trends, insights, and outliers
• Create charts efficiently

Copilot in PowerPoint

• Convert documents into presentations
• Improve slides and speaker notes

Copilot for Teams & Chat

• Run more productive meetings
• Summarise discussions and extract actions

Rolebased Business Scenarios

• Sales : proposals, follow up emails
• HR: policies, job descriptions, onboarding
• Finance; variance, explanations, forecast summaries
• Operations/Administration: timelines, letters, processes