Maximise Your Productivity with Copilot for Microsoft 365 (1 day course)

Course Overview

Who is this course for?

This one-day course is ideal for workplace professionals who want to be more productive at work. Our courses focus on real-life skills and how you can be more productive - not just showing you how to use software features.

What is Microsoft Copilot and how can it help me?

Copilot is a secure AI assistant in Microsoft 365, with both paid and free versions. It can help you speed up many of your day-to-day tasks at work. For example, Copilot can help you to write formulas in Excel to make the most of your spreadsheets, or help you write a difficult email in Outlook.

What will you learn on this one-day Copilot training course?

In this one-day Microsoft Copilot course, you will learn how to use Copilot to streamline your work and be more productive in Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Plus:

• Cut time spent on repetitive tasks with AI-powered solutions
• Tackle advanced technical tasks like Excel formulas with ease
• Improve communication and collaboration with colleagues with AI coaching

If you would prefer a shorter session about what Copilot can offer, we also offer a one-hour introduction, Microsoft Copilot: A Brief Overview, or a half-day course, Introduction to Copilot. This one-day course covers Copilot indepth, with more time with the trainer to work on exercises, ask questions and complete activities.

Do I need prior AI or technical experience to attend this course?

No prior experience is needed! This course is perfect for beginners looking to understand and use Microsoft Copilot to speed up their work tasks.

What happens if my organisation doesn’t have a Copilot licence?

To make the most of Copilot's full capabilities, you should check that your organisation has allocated a full (paid) Copilot licence to your Microsoft 365 account before you attend the course.  

If you don't have a full license, we will cover the limited features of the free version too: attending this course may then help you decide if you could benefit from purchasing one in future, or if the free version is sufficient to help you improve your productivity.

Course timetable

Introduction to Microsoft (365) Copilot

• Overview of Copilot: Understanding what Copilot is and its capabilities
• Accessing Copilot
• Introduction to how Copilot integrates with Microsoft 365 applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams)
• Best practices for using Copilot

Outlook

• Email composition
• Inbox management
• Calendar assistance

Teams

• Catch up on meetings
• Summarise message threads
• Chat assistance

Excel

• Perform and generate formula suggestions
• Data analysis, using existing Copilot prompts or creating your own
• Data visualisation, using charts or Pivot Tables

Word

• Writing assistance
• Asking questions about your document
• Generating content

PowerPoint

• Creating and formatting slides
• Guidance for speeches and talks
• Collaborative editing

Why choose Happy for your Copilot training?

Happy is a BCorp and is employee owned, offering workplace consultancy and learning solutions. Join a trusted training provider rated 4.7/5 on Feefo, with over 2,000 verified reviews. Experience the award-winning learner-focused approach that's helped thousands of professionals feel more confident with their software.

On our digital skills training sessions, you can expect:

• Interactive and engaging learning style – we make learning about IT fun!
• Start using the software straight away – each session is interactive with questions, activities and exercises
• Receive one-to-one attention – small class sizes maximise learning potential
• Learn practical skills to apply straight away – each learner is asked to share their objectives, which your facilitator refers to throughout the day to ensure your needs are covered
• Two years of post-course support – learners can call or email our IT Helpline as often as they need for help on anything covered by their course

Affordable Copilot training tailored to your needs

We offer discounts for public sector and charities. Have a group of learners you'd like to upskill? Speak to us about our private group options for greater flexibility, customisation and to save.

Related courses

You might be interested in these workshops covering similar themes:

• Microsoft Copilot: A Brief Overview — This one-hour free taster session gives you a feel of what's possible with Copilot.
• Introduction to Copilot — This half-day session will give you an overview of what's possible with Copilot and how it could help you and your team to be more productive.
• AI for Absolute Beginners — You will get hands-on experience with popular free AI applications like ChatGPT. Delve into the future possibilities of AI tools, understand their limitations, and discuss the ethical implications of AI in our world today.
• The Art of AI Prompt Engineering — This half-day course emphasises exploring the nuances of crafting effective prompts, discussing OpenAI's guidelines, and discovering how prompts yield varied results across different AI models.

The Small Print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy's HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

Mac Users

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.

The happy Guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

If you have any questions or concerns, our friendly team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. You can leave a message on 020 7375 7300 or email us at hello@happy.co.uk.