Free Microsoft Copilot course · 2026 edition
From first prompt to governed agents
Learn Microsoft Copilot through real work: choose the right context, produce something useful, check the result, and understand the permission and review boundary before you act.
Take the shortest route to useful work
Everyone starts with Module 00. After that, follow one primary route and use the other modules when a project requires them.
Business user
Draft, analyze, present, communicate
Modules 00–04, then choose Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Teams, or knowledge work.
Research and data
Use files, Notebooks, Researcher, and Analyst
Build source and validation skill, then move through Excel, work data, Notebooks, and Microsoft-built agents.
Maker or administrator
Build and govern agents and automation
Start with the grounding and permission model, then learn Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, workflows, rollout, and governance.
Start with a safe first win
Module 00 takes about 45 minutes. You will leave with an account-and-access map, a practice setup, and a validation checklist.
- 00.18 min
Complete one source-grounded task
Run a fictional meeting-notes exercise and catch unsupported additions.
- 00.27 min
Prepare a safe practice environment
Separate approved tools, fictional practice data, and real work.
- 00.3–.418 min
Map the account, license, and features you actually have
Learn why “Copilot” can mean materially different products and data boundaries.
- 00.5–.614 min
Choose a route and adopt the safety check
Build a focused learning plan and a review habit you will use in every module.
Phase 1 · Foundations
Understand the product you have, select the right source context, write a clear work brief, and validate the output.
- 006 lessons
Orientation and safe setup
Account, license, practice data, learning route, and safety checklist.
- 016 lessons
What Microsoft Copilot is
Chat, Microsoft 365 integration, context, agents, and product boundaries.
- 026 lessons
AI and prompting foundations
Goal, context, source, expectations, and the first prompt library.
- 036 lessons
Advanced prompting and validation
Reusable work briefs, clarifying questions, evidence checks, and iteration.
- 046 lessons
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Web, attachments, open-app context, Work IQ, Pages, and daily workflows.
Phase 2 · Microsoft 365 work
Use Copilot inside the applications where documents, data, presentations, email, meetings, notes, and shared files already live.
- 056 lessons
Copilot in Word
Draft, transform, summarize, and review professional documents.
- 066 lessons
Copilot in PowerPoint
Build presentations from ideas and sources, then improve the story.
- 076 lessons
Excel foundations
Prepare data, ask questions, explain formulas, and clean a dataset.
- 086 lessons
Excel advanced and Analyst
Analyze patterns, scenarios, forecasts, and executive reporting.
- 096 lessons
Copilot in Outlook
Summarize threads, draft clearly, prepare, and follow up.
- 106 lessons
Copilot in Teams
Catch up, prepare meetings, extract decisions, and manage actions.
- 116 lessons
OneNote, Loop, Pages, and Copilot Notebooks
Choose the right knowledge workspace and understand its sharing boundary.
- 126 lessons
OneDrive, SharePoint, files, and work data
Organize sources and permissions so useful grounding does not amplify oversharing.
Phase 3 · Agents and automation
Choose a focused agent, build it on governed knowledge, test realistic behavior, and add actions only when ownership and approval are clear.
- 136 lessons
Researcher, Analyst, and Microsoft-built agents
Match specialist agents to research, analysis, design, and other work.
- 146 lessons
Agent Builder
Design a focused agent with instructions, approved knowledge, and tests.
- 156 lessons
Copilot Studio fundamentals
Understand current authoring experiences, knowledge, tools, testing, and publishing.
- 166 lessons
Advanced Copilot Studio
Connect systems, manage authentication, evaluate behavior, and operate agents.
- 176 lessons
Copilot and Power Automate workflows
Build approval-aware processes with checkpoints and human control.
Phase 4 · Business rollout and governance
Turn individual skills into repeatable work, measure useful outcomes, protect data, and govern agents through their full lifecycle.
- 186 lessons
Business playbooks
Role-specific workflows for marketing, sales, leadership, operations, HR, finance, and administration.
- 196 lessons
Admin, security, privacy, and governance
Licensing, permissions, Purview, oversharing, compliance, and agent control.
- 206 lessons
Adoption, measurement, and capstones
Run a responsible rollout, assess work quality, and complete a role-based final project.
The method used in every rebuilt lesson
A polished answer is not evidence that the work is correct. Each lesson turns prompting into an observable process.
1 · Ground
Choose what Copilot may use
Name the web, attachment, open content, Notebook references, agent knowledge, or Work IQ context.
2 · Brief
Define the job and the boundary
State the goal, useful context, source, expectations, exclusions, and definition of done.
3 · Verify
Inspect before you act
Trace important claims, check names and numbers, find missing context, test assumptions, and revise.
Curriculum benchmarks and source policy
- Microsoft Learn: Transform ideas into action with Copilot Chat (Basic)
- Microsoft Learn: Draft, analyze, and present with Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Microsoft course MS-4018-A
- Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent administration learning path
Product claims use current Microsoft Learn, Microsoft Support, licensing, and official product documentation. High-volatility interface and availability notes are rechecked separately from stable learning principles.