1.0 Copilot Foundations

Understand Copilot and build your study workflow

Focus on the free version of Copilot: learn what it offers, how it fits into your toolkit, and when a paid upgrade might help.

What you’ll accomplish

Build a repeatable workflow with the free version of Microsoft Copilot. You’ll get comfortable launching the tool, understand the core capabilities that come with your Microsoft account, and capture your learning in a personal log. When you’re ready to engineer more advanced prompts, continue to module 2.0.

Before you begin

Sign in with a personal Microsoft account, open copilot.microsoft.com, and start a new chat. Keep your study materials handy—books, PDFs, or notes—to paste into Copilot when you need summaries or clarifications.

Foundation lessons

1.1

Explore Copilot capabilities

Natural language chat, free image generation boosts, document helpers, and grounded search results.

Start 1.1

1.5

Capture takeaways in a learning log

Record prompts that work, follow-up tasks, and refinements you made during study sessions.

Open 1.5

1.6

Review Copilot Pro advantages

Understand when Microsoft 365 integration, GPT-4 Turbo access, and faster image generation add value.

Open 1.6

Next steps

Wrap up the foundations lessons here, then continue to 2.0 Prompt Engineering to level up your prompts.

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