# AI for Workplace Productivity with Microsoft Copilot

Canonical URL: <https://www.creativelive.com/classes/ai-workplace-productivity>

## Overview

Learn how to work more effectively with Copilot, Microsoft's AI assistant. In this course, you'll explore the fundamental concepts of AI and its impact on productivity across industries. Discover how Copilot can enhance efficiency, improve capabilities, and streamline workflows by simplifying everyday tasks.

Through real-world examples and practical applications, you'll learn how Copilot can transform the way you work across communication (including email, meetings, and chat), writing, data analysis, decision-making, and more, helping you boost your productivity, creativity, and overall effectiveness.

## What you'll learn

- Understand the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and how large language models (LLMs), like Copilot, work
- Learn how to write effective prompts and refine Copilot's responses across different workplace scenarios
- Explore how to use Copilot with Microsoft 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive
- Automate and enhance everyday tasks, such as email writing, meeting notes, data analysis, and document summarization
- Create AI-generated images and graphics, and understand the limitations, as well as best practices, of generative AI
- Compare Copilot with ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot and identify when to use each for maximum productivity
- Stay up-to-date with the latest AI tools and mobile apps to extend your workflow beyond the desktop

## Curriculum

#### 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 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
- 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 Pivot Charts
- Analyze your data

#### 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
- Have it write for you: 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 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)

## Schedule
- Jun 18, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online
- Jul 16, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online
- Aug 14, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online
- Sep 17, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online
- Oct 15, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online
- Nov 4, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online
- Dec 10, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $299