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1. What Is Microsoft Copilot? ❌
Discover what Microsoft Copilot is, its main capabilities, and how AI supports work across the Microsoft ecosystem. AI Academy 1U introduces practical uses for questions, search, content creation, file analysis, and productivity while establishing a clear foundation for the rest of the course.
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2. Get Started with Microsoft Copilot ❌
Learn how to access Microsoft Copilot with a Microsoft account and prepare the basic environment for everyday use. AI Academy 1U guides beginners through the initial steps so they can start working with Copilot confidently and understand where their AI-assisted work begins.
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3. Getting Familiar with the Copilot Interface ❌
Explore the Copilot interface, including the conversation area, history, prompt box, file attachments, and commonly used controls. AI Academy 1U helps learners understand where essential features are located and how they fit into a practical Copilot workflow.
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4. Start Your First Conversation ❌
Learn how to begin a useful conversation with Copilot, provide relevant context, ask follow-up questions, and request improvements when an answer does not meet your needs. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how an interactive conversation can progressively produce a more relevant and useful result.
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5. Understand Copilot Modes and Capabilities ❌
Understand how Copilot capabilities support different types of work, including questions, search, content generation, and productivity tasks. AI Academy 1U shows how to match the way you use Copilot with the objective of the task and review the resulting information before relying on it.
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6. Use Copilot on Computer and Mobile ❌
Learn how to work with Copilot across computers and mobile devices while maintaining a practical workflow between different environments. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how device flexibility can support information access, planning, communication, and everyday AI-assisted work.
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7. Work with Files and Images ❌
Learn how to provide files and images to Copilot for summarization, explanation, analysis, and information extraction. AI Academy 1U emphasizes comparing AI-generated findings with the original source so important details are not accepted without review.
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8. Copilot Privacy and Safe Use ❌
Understand what information is appropriate to share with Copilot and which personal, financial, or business data requires greater caution. AI Academy 1U develops safer AI habits through responsible data handling, appropriate permissions, and careful review of generated results.
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9. What Is a Copilot Prompt? ❌
Understand what a Copilot prompt is and why the quality of your instructions affects the quality of the response. AI Academy 1U introduces the essential elements of task, context, audience, requirements, and output so learners can move from simple questions toward intentional AI instructions.
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10. Write Clear Instructions ❌
Learn how to clearly define the task and action you want Copilot to perform. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how specific instructions reduce ambiguity, establish the objective, and make generated responses more closely match the result you actually need.
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11. Add Context to Prompts ❌
Provide the background information Copilot needs to understand a request correctly. AI Academy 1U shows how details about the situation, audience, objective, source material, and intended use can substantially improve the relevance of an AI-generated response.
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12. Use Roles in Prompts ❌
Assign Copilot a useful professional or functional role that matches the task being performed. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how role-based prompting can establish an appropriate perspective, vocabulary, priorities, and working context for the requested output.
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13. Add Constraints and Requirements ❌
Define boundaries such as length, audience, tone, scope, required information, and information that should be excluded. AI Academy 1U shows how well-designed constraints give learners greater control over Copilot and keep its response aligned with practical requirements.
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14. Control Output Format ❌
Tell Copilot exactly how information should be structured, such as a table, email, report, outline, checklist, or another required format. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how explicit formatting instructions make AI-generated information easier to review, communicate, and use.
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15. Improve Weak Prompts ❌
Identify why a prompt produces an incomplete, vague, or unsuitable response and improve it systematically. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how adding missing context, instructions, constraints, audience information, and output requirements can transform a weak prompt into a more effective one.
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16. Build Reusable Copilot Prompt Templates ❌
Create reusable prompt templates for tasks performed repeatedly in work or business. AI Academy 1U shows how templates can preserve important instructions, context variables, requirements, and output formats while reducing repetitive prompting and improving consistency.
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17. Use Copilot on Windows ❌
Learn how Microsoft Copilot can support everyday work in a Windows environment. AI Academy 1U introduces practical ways to ask for computer assistance, find information, organize tasks, and use AI as part of a structured desktop productivity workflow.
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18. Ask Copilot for Computer Help ❌
Use Copilot to understand computer tasks, software concepts, settings, and unfamiliar procedures. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how to describe a problem clearly, request step-by-step guidance, and verify instructions before making important changes to a computer.
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19. Search and Find Information with Copilot ❌
Use Copilot to locate and organize information needed for everyday work. AI Academy 1U shows how to refine search questions, identify useful findings, and review important information rather than treating the first generated answer as automatically correct.
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20. Use Copilot for Daily Productivity ❌
Turn everyday goals into practical plans, checklists, priorities, and manageable tasks with Copilot. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how AI can help organize daily responsibilities while keeping the user responsible for priorities, decisions, and completion.
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21. Use Copilot with Windows Workflows ❌
Integrate Copilot into repeatable computer-based workflows instead of using it only for isolated questions. AI Academy 1U shows how information gathering, planning, writing, organization, and review can be connected into a more efficient Windows working process.
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22. Troubleshoot Common Tasks with Copilot ❌
Use Copilot to understand common computer problems and develop possible troubleshooting steps. AI Academy 1U emphasizes describing symptoms accurately, evaluating suggested actions, and proceeding carefully rather than applying AI-generated technical instructions without review.
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23. Build a Windows Productivity Workflow ❌
Combine Copilot assistance, information search, planning, task organization, and review into a complete Windows productivity workflow. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how separate AI capabilities can work together as a repeatable system for everyday computer work.
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24. Use Copilot in Microsoft Word ❌
Discover how Copilot can assist with creating, understanding, revising, and organizing documents in Microsoft Word. AI Academy 1U introduces an AI-assisted document workflow while emphasizing that meaning, structure, facts, and final wording still require human review.
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25. Draft Documents with Copilot ❌
Turn a topic, objective, or set of requirements into an organized first draft. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how clear instructions about audience, purpose, structure, and source information can help Copilot produce a stronger starting point for a Word document.
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26. Rewrite Existing Text ❌
Use Copilot to rewrite existing text for greater clarity, readability, professionalism, or consistency while preserving the intended meaning. AI Academy 1U shows how to define what should change and what must remain unchanged before accepting a revised version.
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27. Summarize Long Documents ❌
Reduce lengthy Word documents into concise summaries containing their most important ideas, decisions, or supporting information. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how to specify the desired level of detail and compare the summary with the original document before using it.
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28. Change Tone and Writing Style ❌
Adapt existing writing for a different audience, purpose, or communication style without unnecessarily changing its underlying message. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can make content more professional, concise, friendly, persuasive, or accessible according to specific requirements.
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29. Expand and Shorten Content ❌
Adjust the length of document content while preserving the information that matters most. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can add useful explanation where more detail is required or remove unnecessary wording when a more concise document is needed.
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30. Create Business Documents ❌
Use Copilot to develop professional proposals, reports, memos, notices, and other business documents from clear requirements and source information. AI Academy 1U emphasizes organized structure, appropriate tone, factual review, and practical usability before a document is finalized.
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31. Improve Document Structure ❌
Analyze and improve the organization of a Word document by refining headings, sections, information order, and logical flow. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can help transform disconnected content into a document that is easier for readers to understand and navigate.
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32. Build a Complete Word Workflow ❌
Combine planning, drafting, rewriting, summarization, structural improvement, and final review into a complete AI-assisted Word workflow. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can support the entire document lifecycle while leaving final editorial responsibility with the user.
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33. Use Copilot in Excel ❌
Discover how Copilot can assist with spreadsheet data, formulas, analysis, visualization, and reporting in Microsoft Excel. AI Academy 1U introduces an AI-assisted data workflow designed to make spreadsheet information easier to understand while keeping important results verifiable.
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34. Understand Spreadsheet Data ❌
Ask Copilot to explain tables, columns, values, relationships, and unfamiliar spreadsheet structures in natural language. AI Academy 1U shows how AI can help learners understand what a dataset represents before attempting formulas, analysis, or conclusions.
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35. Create Excel Formulas with Copilot ❌
Describe a calculation in natural language and use Copilot to help develop an appropriate Excel formula. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how to provide relevant cell and data context, understand the proposed formula, and test the result before relying on it.
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36. Explain Existing Formulas ❌
Use Copilot to break an unfamiliar Excel formula into understandable components and explain what each part does. AI Academy 1U helps learners move beyond copying formulas by understanding their logic, inputs, conditions, and expected results.
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37. Clean and Organize Data ❌
Identify inconsistent values, formatting problems, missing information, and other issues that can reduce spreadsheet quality. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can assist the cleaning process while requiring users to review proposed changes before modifying important data.
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38. Analyze Data with Copilot ❌
Use natural-language requests to investigate spreadsheet data for patterns, differences, trends, and useful findings. AI Academy 1U shows how to move from a business question to analysis while distinguishing observations in the data from conclusions that require additional evidence.
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39. Ask Questions About Excel Data ❌
Interact with spreadsheet information by asking specific questions in everyday language. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how well-defined questions can help locate values, compare categories, investigate performance, and explore a dataset without losing sight of the underlying source data.
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40. Create Charts with Copilot ❌
Turn spreadsheet data into visual presentations that communicate important comparisons, patterns, and trends. AI Academy 1U shows how to select an appropriate chart purpose, evaluate the resulting visualization, and make sure the chart represents the underlying data accurately.
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41. Create Reports from Excel Data ❌
Transform spreadsheet analysis into a clear report containing relevant findings, supporting figures, and useful explanations. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can help communicate data insights while maintaining a traceable connection between the report and its source data.
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42. Build a Complete Excel Analysis Workflow ❌
Combine data understanding, cleaning, formulas, analysis, questions, charts, and reporting into one complete Excel workflow. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can assist each stage while preserving human verification of calculations, interpretations, and final conclusions.
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43. Use Copilot in PowerPoint ❌
Discover how Copilot can support the creation and improvement of presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. AI Academy 1U introduces a practical workflow for moving from an idea or source document toward organized slides, presentation content, and speaker preparation.
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44. Create a Presentation from a Topic ❌
Turn a topic and presentation objective into an initial slide structure with Copilot. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how defining the audience, purpose, key message, and desired length can produce a stronger foundation for a complete presentation.
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45. Create a Presentation from a Document ❌
Transform a longer source document into a presentation that emphasizes its most important information. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can help identify major themes and organize them into slides while requiring comparison with the original source.
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46. Generate Slide Content ❌
Develop titles, key points, explanations, and supporting content for individual slides. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how to keep slide content focused on one communication purpose instead of filling presentations with excessive AI-generated text.
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47. Improve Existing Slides ❌
Use Copilot to revise existing presentation content for greater clarity, focus, consistency, and readability. AI Academy 1U shows how to evaluate suggested changes while preserving the important facts and message already contained in the presentation.
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48. Organize a Presentation ❌
Improve the logical flow of a presentation by arranging slides and sections into a coherent sequence. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can help establish a beginning, development, and conclusion that guides the audience through the presentation.
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49. Create Speaker Notes ❌
Develop speaker notes that expand on slide content without simply repeating the text visible on screen. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can help prepare explanations, transitions, reminders, and supporting points for a more confident presentation.
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50. Build a Complete AI Presentation ❌
Combine outlining, slide generation, content refinement, organization, speaker notes, and final review into a complete PowerPoint workflow. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can accelerate presentation development while leaving the final message and delivery under human control.
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51. Use Copilot in Outlook ❌
Discover how Copilot can support everyday email work in Microsoft Outlook. AI Academy 1U introduces practical uses for understanding messages, drafting responses, improving wording, summarizing conversations, and managing communication more efficiently.
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52. Draft Professional Emails ❌
Create professional emails based on the recipient, purpose, context, desired tone, and required action. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can develop a useful first draft while the sender remains responsible for accuracy and the final message.
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53. Rewrite and Improve Emails ❌
Use Copilot to improve an existing email’s clarity, tone, structure, and professionalism without losing its intended meaning. AI Academy 1U shows how to specify the communication problem before asking AI to revise the message.
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54. Summarize Long Emails ❌
Reduce a lengthy email into its essential information, requests, decisions, and deadlines. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can help users understand important messages faster while encouraging review of the original email when details matter.
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55. Summarize Email Threads ❌
Turn a multi-message email conversation into a concise overview of what happened, what was decided, and what still requires action. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can reduce the time required to understand long or complicated exchanges.
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56. Create Email Replies ❌
Draft a response using the context of an existing message and the outcome you want to achieve. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how to guide Copilot with recipient, tone, required information, and next action so the reply remains purposeful and relevant.
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57. Prepare Follow-Up Messages ❌
Create follow-up emails that reconnect a previous conversation with the next required action. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can help reference prior context, clarify outstanding items, communicate deadlines, and request responses professionally.
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58. Build an AI Email Workflow ❌
Combine email reading, summarization, drafting, rewriting, review, replying, and follow-up into a repeatable Outlook workflow. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can reduce repetitive communication work without removing human responsibility for what is actually sent.
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59. Use Copilot in Microsoft Teams ❌
Discover how Copilot can assist meetings and collaboration in Microsoft Teams. AI Academy 1U introduces practical ways to prepare for discussions, understand meeting content, identify important outcomes, and turn conversations into useful follow-up work.
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60. Prepare for Meetings with Copilot ❌
Use Copilot to develop meeting objectives, agendas, discussion points, and preparation materials before a meeting begins. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how better preparation can make AI-assisted meetings more focused and productive.
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61. Summarize Meetings ❌
Turn meeting content into a concise summary containing the major topics, outcomes, and information participants need to remember. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can reduce lengthy discussions into an organized reference for review and follow-up.
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62. Identify Key Decisions ❌
Use Copilot to separate actual decisions from general discussion during a meeting. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how identifying what was agreed upon can improve accountability and prevent important conclusions from becoming lost in conversation.
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63. Create Action Items ❌
Transform meeting outcomes into specific tasks with clear actions and relevant responsibilities. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can help convert discussion into follow-up work that teams can understand, assign, and track.
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64. Catch Up on Meetings ❌
Use Copilot to understand important parts of a meeting you missed or could not follow in real time. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how summaries, decisions, and action items can help users quickly regain the context needed to continue participating.
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65. Improve Team Collaboration ❌
Use Copilot to organize shared information, responsibilities, decisions, and next steps across a team. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how AI-assisted organization can reduce communication gaps while keeping collaboration and accountability with the people involved.
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66. Build an AI Meeting Workflow ❌
Connect meeting preparation, discussion, summaries, decisions, action items, and follow-up into a complete Teams workflow. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can support the full meeting lifecycle instead of being used only for isolated summaries.
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67. Use Copilot with OneDrive ❌
Learn how Copilot can assist with documents stored in OneDrive by helping users find, understand, and work with cloud-based information. AI Academy 1U introduces a practical approach that keeps document permissions and original sources in view.
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68. Find Information in Files ❌
Use Copilot to locate specific facts, topics, decisions, or details inside business documents. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how targeted questions can reduce manual searching while important findings are still checked against the underlying files.
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69. Summarize Documents ❌
Turn stored documents into concise summaries of their main ideas, findings, or decisions. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can accelerate document review while maintaining a connection to the original material for verification.
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70. Compare Multiple Files ❌
Analyze multiple documents to identify similarities, differences, changes, or conflicting information. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can organize comparisons while users verify important conclusions against the actual source documents.
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71. Use Copilot with SharePoint ❌
Explore how Copilot can assist with information and organizational knowledge stored in SharePoint. AI Academy 1U emphasizes responsible access, permissions, source context, and practical ways to turn enterprise information into useful knowledge.
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72. Build a Business Knowledge Workflow ❌
Create a repeatable process for finding, reading, comparing, synthesizing, and applying information from business documents. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can reduce information-search time while preserving traceability to the original sources.
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73. Organize Enterprise Information with Copilot ❌
Use Copilot to help structure and make sense of information distributed across organizational files and knowledge sources. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how better organization can make enterprise knowledge easier to locate, understand, and reuse without ignoring access controls.
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74. Research with Copilot ❌
Learn how to begin a research task by defining the topic, objective, and information required. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can help break a broad question into manageable research steps while keeping evidence and verification central to the process.
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75. Ask Better Research Questions ❌
Turn a broad topic into focused questions that can guide useful research. AI Academy 1U shows how defining scope, comparison criteria, time period, audience, and desired evidence can produce a more disciplined research process.
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76. Search for Information with Copilot ❌
Use Copilot to locate information relevant to a research question or work requirement. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how to refine searches, identify useful material, and continue investigating rather than treating a generated summary as the final source of truth.
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77. Compare Multiple Sources ❌
Organize information from different sources to identify agreements, differences, and gaps. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can support comparison while source quality and original evidence remain essential to evaluating the result.
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78. Verify Information ❌
Identify claims that require confirmation and check them against appropriate sources before use. AI Academy 1U develops a verification habit that separates convenient AI-generated summaries from information that has actually been supported by evidence.
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79. Research Products and Services ❌
Use Copilot to organize research about products or services around features, requirements, pricing considerations, benefits, limitations, and comparison criteria. AI Academy 1U emphasizes checking current information and primary sources before making decisions.
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80. Turn Research into Reports ❌
Transform collected evidence and findings into an organized research report. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can help structure the objective, evidence, analysis, findings, and conclusions while keeping important claims connected to their sources.
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81. Build a Complete Research Workflow ❌
Combine research questions, searching, source collection, comparison, verification, analysis, and reporting into one repeatable process. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can accelerate research without replacing source evaluation and human judgment.
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82. Use Copilot as a Learning Assistant ❌
Learn how to use Copilot as an interactive assistant for understanding new subjects and organizing study activities. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how providing your level, goals, and learning material can create more useful explanations and practice.
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83. Explain Difficult Topics Simply ❌
Ask Copilot to break a difficult subject into smaller concepts and explain it at an appropriate level. AI Academy 1U shows how follow-up questions, examples, and progressively deeper explanations can make complex material easier to understand.
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84. Summarize Study Materials ❌
Transform lengthy learning material into a concise overview of important concepts and supporting information. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can make review more efficient while learners continue to compare summaries with the original material.
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85. Create Study Notes ❌
Organize learning material into structured notes containing important concepts, definitions, relationships, and examples. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can convert unstructured material into a study resource that is easier to review and expand.
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86. Create Flashcards ❌
Turn important concepts into question-and-answer flashcards for repeated recall practice. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can generate targeted review material while learners evaluate whether each card accurately represents the subject.
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87. Create Quizzes and Practice Tests ❌
Generate questions and practice tests from the material being studied. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can create exercises with answer explanations that help learners identify both what they understand and what requires additional review.
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88. Build a Personal Study Plan ❌
Create a study plan based on learning objectives, current level, available time, materials, practice, and review checkpoints. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can divide a larger educational goal into manageable activities without replacing the learner’s own effort.
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89. Generate Content Ideas ❌
Use Copilot to develop content topics and creative directions based on a defined audience, objective, product, or campaign. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how structured ideation can produce useful options without losing connection to the marketing goal.
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90. Build Customer Personas ❌
Develop practical customer personas from available audience information, needs, behaviors, and business objectives. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can organize customer insights while distinguishing known information from assumptions that still require validation.
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91. Write Marketing Content ❌
Create marketing content aligned with a specific audience, offer, objective, and communication channel. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can develop useful drafts while marketers remain responsible for claims, positioning, brand voice, and final approval.
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92. Write Advertising Copy ❌
Develop headlines, promotional messages, benefits, and calls to action for advertising campaigns. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can generate multiple creative approaches that can then be evaluated against audience needs and campaign objectives.
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93. Create Social Media Content ❌
Use Copilot to adapt marketing messages into social content suited to different platforms and audiences. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how to define purpose, format, tone, and call to action while keeping human review before publication.
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94. Create Email Marketing Content ❌
Develop promotional or customer-nurture emails with appropriate subject lines, message structure, offers, and calls to action. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can accelerate drafting while marketers review accuracy, audience fit, and the final communication.
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95. Build a Content Calendar ❌
Organize content topics, channels, publication timing, campaign stages, and objectives into a practical schedule. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can turn disconnected content ideas into a coordinated plan that supports consistent marketing execution.
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96. Build a Complete Marketing Workflow ❌
Connect customer understanding, ideation, copywriting, social content, email, scheduling, campaign execution, and review into one workflow. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can support the marketing lifecycle while strategy and final decisions remain human responsibilities.
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97. Create Business Plans ❌
Use Copilot to organize the major components of a business plan, including objectives, customers, offerings, operations, and financial considerations. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how AI can support planning while assumptions and business facts still require validation.
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98. Create Business Reports ❌
Transform business information and available data into a structured report for management review. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can organize findings, supporting information, and recommendations while important figures and claims remain subject to verification.
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99. Analyze Business Problems ❌
Break a business problem into its causes, constraints, stakeholders, evidence, and possible responses. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can help structure complex issues so managers can evaluate them systematically instead of jumping directly to a solution.
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100. Perform SWOT Analysis ❌
Use Copilot to organize strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats around a business, product, or strategic decision. AI Academy 1U emphasizes distinguishing evidence-based factors from assumptions before SWOT findings are used for planning.
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101. Compare Business Options ❌
Evaluate multiple business alternatives using clearly defined criteria, benefits, costs, risks, and trade-offs. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can structure comparisons while management remains responsible for weighting criteria and making the final decision.
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102. Create Project Plans ❌
Turn an objective into a structured project containing tasks, responsibilities, milestones, dependencies, and a practical timeline. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can accelerate initial planning while project assumptions and resources are reviewed by the people responsible.
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103. Use Copilot for Decision Support ❌
Use Copilot to organize evidence, alternatives, criteria, risks, and potential outcomes before making a decision. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how AI can strengthen the decision process without transferring final approval or accountability away from the human decision-maker.
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104. Build a Management Workflow ❌
Connect information gathering, analysis, planning, decision support, execution, and follow-up into a repeatable management workflow. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can assist each stage while authority and accountability remain with management.
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105. Understand Business Data with Copilot ❌
Use Copilot to interpret business data and explain what important measures, categories, and relationships represent. AI Academy 1U establishes a foundation for working with data by making sure users understand the information before attempting deeper analysis.
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106. Ask Questions About Business Data ❌
Explore business data through focused questions expressed in natural language. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how clear questions can help investigate performance, comparisons, exceptions, and relationships while keeping the underlying data available for verification.
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107. Identify Trends and Patterns ❌
Use Copilot to investigate changes, recurring patterns, relationships, and unusual movements in business data. AI Academy 1U shows how to distinguish what the data visibly demonstrates from explanations that require additional evidence.
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108. Create Business Insights ❌
Turn observations from business data into useful interpretations connected to a defined business question. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how an insight should be supported by evidence and clearly separated from assumptions or recommendations.
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109. Create Data Summaries ❌
Transform complex data findings into concise explanations that nontechnical readers can understand. AI Academy 1U shows how Copilot can communicate important numbers, patterns, and comparisons without losing the meaning of the underlying information.
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110. Create Management Reports ❌
Organize data findings into management-ready reports containing important metrics, trends, explanations, and relevant conclusions. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can assist reporting while source data and critical business claims remain verifiable.
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111. Use Copilot Across Microsoft Data Tools ❌
Understand how Copilot can support data-related work across the broader Microsoft ecosystem. AI Academy 1U focuses on connecting questions, analysis, insights, visualizations, and reporting into a more coordinated business data process.
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112. Build a Business Intelligence Workflow ❌
Combine data understanding, questioning, analysis, pattern identification, insight development, visualization, and reporting into a complete workflow. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Copilot can support business intelligence while human review remains essential before decisions are made.
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113. Understand Microsoft 365 Copilot ❌
Understand the role of Microsoft 365 Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and organizational work. AI Academy 1U introduces how AI can support connected productivity rather than operating as a separate tool for isolated tasks.
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114. Connect Copilot Across Microsoft 365 ❌
Build workflows that move information and work across Microsoft 365 applications instead of keeping each task isolated. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams can contribute to different stages of one connected business process.
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115. What Is Copilot Studio? ❌
Discover how Copilot Studio can be used to design and customize AI assistants for organizational use cases. AI Academy 1U introduces the relationship between business objectives, knowledge, instructions, actions, testing, and governance when planning a custom Copilot.
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116. Build a Custom Copilot ❌
Design a custom Copilot around a clearly defined business task, audience, knowledge source, instructions, and required actions. AI Academy 1U demonstrates a structured development approach that includes testing and human review before real-world deployment.
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117. Understand Copilot Agents ❌
Learn how Copilot agents differ from a basic chat assistant by supporting multi-step work, knowledge, actions, and more autonomous task execution. AI Academy 1U emphasizes defining boundaries, review points, and human oversight before delegating meaningful work to an agent.
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118. Build Automated AI Workflows ❌
Design workflows that combine triggers, data, AI processing, business rules, actions, and human approval. AI Academy 1U demonstrates how automation can reduce repetitive work while controls and review stages help manage errors and operational risk.
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119. Design an Enterprise Copilot Workflow ❌
Plan how organizational data, Microsoft applications, AI capabilities, business rules, actions, and responsible people interact in an enterprise process. AI Academy 1U focuses on creating workflows with clear ownership, permissions, validation, and human approval points.
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120. Complete Project: Build a Microsoft AI Workplace ❌
Bring together Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, business data, and AI-assisted workflows into one complete workplace project. AI Academy 1U guides learners in designing an end-to-end process where outputs are reviewed at important stages and humans retain responsibility for consequential decisions.
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