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AI for Workplace Productivity with Microsoft Copilot

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Overview

Leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance productivity in the workplace. Use Microsoft Copilot to expand your capabilities, save time, and make you more creative/professional. In this course you’ll learn practical applications of Copilot and it’s integration into Office applications.

Syllabus

The Technology & Importance of AI (Artificial Intelligence)

  • What is a Large Language Model (LLM) & how does it work?
  • The Importance of AI
  • AI Products from Microsoft vs OpenAI (makers of ChatGPT)

Data Privacy

  • Large Language Model Training & Data Privacy
  • Does Copilot use your Company Data for Training the AI?

Copilot Plans: Free vs Paid

  • Copilot vs Copilot Pro vs Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Copilot Plans for Individuals
  • Copilot Plans for Organizations
  • Microsoft Copilot vs GitHub Copilot

Getting Started with Copilot: Writing Prompts

  • Ask Copilot a Question
  • Work vs Web Tabs
  • Follow Up Messages
  • Create a New Chat or Continue the Current Chat?
  • What to Do If You Are Not Satisfied with Copilot's Response
  • Edit in Pages

Ideas For How You Can Use AI

  • What can Copilot do for you?
  • Learn the Most Important Aspects About a Topic
  • Write Something For You
  • Get Summaries of Documents, Articles, etc
  • Improve Your Writing
  • Clean Up a Video Transcript
  • and many more...

Generating Images

  • Generating Images from a Text Prompt
  • The Style of Graphics: Illustration vs Photography
  • Tips for Generating Realistic Looking Photos
  • Tips for Creating Images with Copilot

Things to Watch Out For

  • Potential Downsides to Generative AI
  • AI is Not Perfect (You must verify)

Copilot’s Integration into Microsoft Office (365) Apps

  • Excel
  • Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Outlook (App or outlook.com)
  • Teams (Meetings & Chat)
  • OneDrive

Microsoft Excel

  • Write formulas for you (inside Excel)
  • Insert columns for you
  • Apply color and formatting
  • Understand/visualize your data by having Copilot create charts, Pivot Tables, and even Pivot Charts

Microsoft Outlook & Email

  • Get caught up on your email faster
  • Write better emails (Copilot can write emails for you or suggest improvements to what you write)
  • Create email rules

Microsoft Word

  • Summarize documents
  • Have it review your writing
  • Have it write for you:
    • Brand new writing based on a prompt you type
    • Based on a reference file you provide it

Microsoft PowerPoint

  • Summarize PowerPoint presentations
  • Ask questions about content in a presentation
  • Generate entire presentations with a Copilot prompt
  • Convert files in PowerPoint presentations
  • Add new slides

Microsoft Teams (Meetings & Chat)

  • Catch up on a chats with coworkers
  • Ask questions and get answers about a meeting without having to rewatch a meeting or read the entire transcript
  • Review/create meeting notes
  • Catch up on a meeting if you’re late

Microsoft OneDrive

  • Summarize files
  • Ask questions about a file’s contents
  • Compare files

Using AI In “Your” Job

  • How can AI help “you specifically” in your job?

Microsoft Copilot vs ChatGPT

  • When to use Copilot Instead of ChatGPT
  • When to use ChatGPT instead of Copilot

Copilot & AI Are Rapidly Developing

  • Resources for Staying Up to Date

Copilot Mobile Apps

  • Getting the correct Mobile App for your plan (there are multiple)

Taught by

Dan Rodney, Garfield Stinvil, and Mourad Kattan

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