Module 02: AI and Prompting Foundations
Lesson 02.6: Your First 25 Useful Copilot Prompts
Lesson Promise
Build a starter prompt pack for safe everyday work.
Real-World Scenario
A learner wants ready-to-use prompts for summaries, emails, meetings, planning, analysis, and review.
Core Concept
A prompt pack is useful only if it includes placeholders, source rules, and review instructions.
The goal is not 25 magic prompts. The goal is 25 safe starting points the learner can adapt.
Step-By-Step Workflow
- Choose five work categories.
- Write five prompts per category.
- Add placeholders.
- Add source and privacy rules.
- Add review step.
- Test and revise the pack.
Prompt Lab
Bad Prompt
Give me prompts.
Better Prompt
Create 25 safe Copilot prompts for summaries, drafts, meetings, planning, and review with placeholders.
Expert Prompt
Create a 25-prompt beginner Copilot pack. Group prompts by summaries, writing, meetings, planning, analysis, and review. Include placeholders, source rules, privacy warnings, output format, and human review step for each prompt.
Hands-On Exercise
Create and test your first ten prompts from the pack.
Deliverable
A 25-prompt starter library.
Prompt Foundations Checklist
Common Mistakes
- Asking vague prompts and blaming the tool for vague answers.
- Providing context without source boundaries.
- Forgetting to specify audience, format, tone, and length.
- Restarting every time instead of iterating.
- Skipping review because the answer is well written.
Quiz / Checkpoint
What makes a prompt pack safe?
Placeholders, source boundaries, privacy reminders, output expectations, and human review steps.
