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Microsoft Copilot: Intro

An absolute-baseline introduction to Microsoft 365 Copilot for first-time users. Learners see what Copilot is, where it appears across Microsoft 365, and how to make their first request. It demystifies Copilot for complete beginners. About 30 minutes including the final.

What this course covers

The course runs across 4 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

  • Welcome to Microsoft 365 Copilot — Understand what Copilot is, how it acts as your everyday AI companion, and what to expect during your first interaction.
  • Finding Copilot in Your Workspace — Navigate the Microsoft 365 interface to locate Copilot in key applications like Teams, Word, and your web browser.
  • Making Your Very First Request — Learn the basic anatomy of a prompt and write your first successful request to summarize information or draft content.
  • Reviewing and Refining Copilot's Output — Practice evaluating Copilot's responses, applying critical thinking, and using follow-up prompts to refine the results.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick.

Who it is for

All M365 employees / new Copilot users. The material is pitched at beginner level, and takes roughly 30 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Tool: Microsoft Copilot track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including guided lab exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Also in this track

  • All Microsoft Copilot training courses →
  • Microsoft Copilot for Developers: Essentials — Refactoring & Migration Playbook — A focused playbook for migrating and refactoring Copilot Studio agents without changing what users get. Learners record today's answers first, move a classic agent with tangled trigger-phrase topics to generative orchestration with clear descriptions and short instructions, and use before/after tests to tell wording changes from behaviour changes. They leave with a routine that keeps every migration protected by tests. About 45 minutes including the final.
  • Microsoft Copilot for Developers: Essentials — Testing Playbook — A focused playbook for testing agents built on Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio. Learners write a test set of realistic, boundary, out-of-scope and adversarial questions, check every answer and every expected response against the source, trace failures to configuration changes, and re-run the same tests after each fix. They leave with a repeatable way to prove an agent still gives the right answers. About 45 minutes including the final.
  • Microsoft Copilot for Developers: Essentials — Code Review Playbook — A focused playbook for reviewing Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot agents before they are published. Learners check instructions, descriptions, knowledge sources, tools and their credentials, authentication and sharing against the agent's stated purpose, judge review comments that may be wrong, and push back with specific changes. They leave with a routine that catches risky agents before users see them. About 45 minutes including the final.
  • Microsoft Copilot: Essentials — Data & Analysis Playbook — A focused playbook for doing data and analysis work in Microsoft Copilot. Learners run real tasks end to end - data cleanup, analysis, charts, and interpretation - and leave with repeatable workflows they can use the same day. About 45 minutes including the final.
  • Microsoft Copilot for Developers: Essentials — Docs & Onboarding Playbook — A focused playbook for documenting agents built on Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio and handing them over. Learners read an agent they didn't build, audit an out-of-date handover note against its configuration, write a note covering purpose, sources, tools, owners and known limits in which every claim is traced, and plan a new maintainer's first week. They leave with docs the next owner can trust. About 45 minutes including the final.
  • Microsoft Copilot for Everyone Pathway — Complete fluency in M365 Copilot through Studio and admin. Also includes 3 optional playbooks (Research, Data & Analysis, Coding) to take any time after Essentials; they don't count toward the certificate.

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Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 30 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code TUL-COP-001.