StretchLearn Course

Stop getting generic answers and start getting work done with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Learn the grounded-prompting framework and apply it across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams so the Copilot license you already pay for actually drafts, analyzes, summarizes, and recaps the way you need.

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Beginner9 hrSelf PacedRegistered

Course Overview

What this course is designed to develop

This beginner course teaches knowledge workers, managers, analysts, and small-business owners on a Microsoft 365 Copilot license to get reliable, business-grade results from Copilot rather than vague text. You will learn how Copilot grounds answers in your own Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint content through the Microsoft Graph, write the four-part prompts that consistently produce usable output, and apply Copilot inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and Copilot Chat. Each lesson is built around named features, exact ribbon and menu paths, real numbers, and a worked example you run on a live file, inbox, or meeting as you go, with explicit guidance on verifying every output before you trust it.

Learning Outcomes

What the learner should be able to understand, build, or execute.

Explain how Microsoft 365 Copilot grounds answers in your tenant data through the Microsoft Graph and why that makes it different from public ChatGPT

Write grounded four-part prompts (goal, context, source, format) that turn vague requests into business-grade Copilot output

Draft, rewrite, and summarize documents in Word using Copilot, referencing existing files with the slash command

Analyze tables in Excel with Copilot to generate formulas, surface insights, and create charts and PivotTables from natural language

Generate and refine PowerPoint decks from a Word document and recap meetings and email in Outlook and Teams

Verify, fact-check, and protect every Copilot output so you never ship a hallucinated number or a confidentiality leak

Curriculum Preview

Inside the curriculum: a structured path from fundamentals to execution.

Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.

Module 1

Module 1: Copilot Foundations: What It Is and How to Prompt It

Understand what Microsoft 365 Copilot actually is, how it grounds its answers in your own tenant data through the Microsoft Graph, and the four-part prompt structure that turns a vague request into reliable output. You leave able to prompt Copilot deliberately and read its results with a critical eye.

3 lessons

What Microsoft 365 Copilot Is (and Is Not)Content · 45 min

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The Grounded Prompt: Goal, Context, Source, FormatContent · 45 min

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Copilot Chat and Work Grounding Across Your DayContent · 45 min

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Module 2

Module 2: Copilot in Word and Outlook: Writing and Email

Put Copilot to work on the two apps where most of your words happen. Draft and rewrite documents grounded in your own files in Word, then triage your inbox, summarize long threads, and write replies in the right tone in Outlook. You leave able to turn a blank page and a full inbox into finished, accurate text.

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Drafting and Rewriting in WordContent · 45 min

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Taming the Inbox: Summarize and Triage in OutlookContent · 45 min

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Writing Email That Sounds Like YouContent · 45 min

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Module 3

Module 3: Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint: Data and Decks

Use Copilot where the numbers and the slides live. In Excel, generate formulas, surface insights, and build charts and PivotTables from plain language on properly structured data. In PowerPoint, turn a Word document into a draft deck and refine it fast. You leave able to analyze a table and produce a presentation without starting from zero.

3 lessons

Analyzing Tables in Excel with CopilotContent · 45 min

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Charts, PivotTables, and What-If Analysis in ExcelContent · 45 min

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Building Decks Fast in PowerPointContent · 45 min

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Module 4

Module 4: Copilot in Teams, Automation, and Trusting the Output

Finish with collaboration, light automation, and the discipline that makes all of it safe. Use Copilot in Teams to recap meetings and chats, build a simple agent with Copilot Studio, and adopt the verification and data-protection habits that keep you from shipping a hallucination or leaking confidential data.

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Meeting and Chat Recaps in Microsoft TeamsContent · 45 min

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Light Automation with Copilot Studio and Connected AppsContent · 45 min

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Verify, Protect, and Use Copilot ResponsiblyContent · 45 min

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Built for Application

A complete learning path, not a one-off inspiration hit.

This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.

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