Program Overview

Centre for Continuing Education

The Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sydney offers a diverse range of professional development short courses. These courses are designed to enhance professional development, grow technical and people skills, and support career progression.

Course Subjects

The Centre for Continuing Education offers courses in various subjects, including:

• Business and management
  • Business communication
  • Business strategy
  • Business writing
  • Cultural competence and diversity
  • Finance
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Organisational psychology
  • Sales and customer service
• English
• HSC preparation (years 10-12)
  • HSC biology
  • HSC business studies
  • HSC chemistry
  • HSC economics
  • HSC English
  • HSC mathematics
  • HSC physics
  • Year 11 (Revision)
  • Years 10-12 study and essay skills
• Humanities and culture
  • Creative writing
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
• Information technology
  • Adobe
  • AI and machine learning courses
  • Data analysis and analytics
  • Google
  • Microsoft
• Language
  • Arabic
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
• Marketing
  • Digital marketing
  • Marketing communications
  • Product development
• Project management
  • Agile methodology courses
  • Change management for projects
  • Stakeholder and people management
  • Technical project management skills

Microsoft Copilot Course: Your AI Virtual Assistant

This course teaches participants how to effectively communicate with Microsoft Copilot to maximise its output and master its use to simplify complex tasks. The course covers the different versions of Copilot, highlighting their capabilities, advantages, and limitations.

Course Details

• Duration: 1 session, 7.5 hours total
• Next date: 12 January 2026
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• Next class mode: Face-to-face (CCE Building, Newtown)
• Cost: A$465.00 - A$495.00

Course Information

In this course, participants will learn how to:

• Effectively communicate with Microsoft Copilot to maximise its output
• Master the use of Copilot to simplify complex tasks
• Create their own AI agent
• Share work and data efficiently using AI

Aims

The course aims to introduce participants to Microsoft Copilot, an innovative AI tool that assists in creating and managing files, sites, and content with ease and efficiency. Participants will learn how to use Copilot effectively in various situations and contexts.

Outcomes

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

• Understand the concept, features, benefits, and limitations of Microsoft Copilot
• Communicate with Copilot on the Web to request tone and format, seek comparisons and summaries, and perform sentiment analysis, keyword prominence, and topic clustering
• Harness the power of Copilot Loop for seamless collaboration and dynamic content updates
• Use Copilot Notebook for advanced, tailored, and detailed prompts, ask questions, get help, and revise answers
• Use Copilot 365 to compose and analyse content within Microsoft applications, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Collaborate with Copilot 365 alongside Microsoft tools, such as Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint libraries
• Streamline the production of various types of files, such as forms, quizzes, reports, plans, lists, ideas, presentations, and agendas

Content

The course covers the following topics:

• What is Microsoft Copilot
• Working with your everyday AI companion – Copilot on the Web
• Working with your AI assistant at work – Copilot 365
• Using Copilot to collaborate

Intended Audience

The course is designed for anyone interested in using Copilot to improve their productivity and communication.

Prerequisites

The course assumes little or no knowledge of Copilot. However, participants should have an understanding of Microsoft Office 365, personal computers, and the Windows operating system environment.

Delivery Modes

The course is offered in two delivery modes:

• Face-to-face, presenter-taught training in a computer lab
• Online training via the platform Zoom

Materials

Course materials are shared electronically using Dropbox.

Additional Information

The course covers features included in the paid version of Microsoft Copilot, which is different from the free version that comes with an Office 365 subscription.

Related Courses

The Centre for Continuing Education offers several related courses, including:

• Advanced AI Course: Mastering ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Other Tools for Marketing and Content
• Applied Generative AI Programming Course with Python and Anthropic Claude
• Beginner AI Course: Using ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini for Business and Marketing Writing
• Data Analysis with AI Course: ChatGPT and Google Looker Studio
• Financial Modelling in Excel Course
• Microsoft Excel Course: Level 1
• Microsoft Excel Course: Level 2
• Microsoft Excel Course: Level 3
• Power BI Course: Advanced
• Power BI Course: Intermediate
• Power BI Course: Introduction

Meet the Facilitators

The course is facilitated by experienced professionals, including Danish Malik, who has 20 years of experience in training, consulting, finance, project management, and engineering.

What Others Say

Participants have praised the course, saying it was "fantastic" and that the facilitator was "excellent". They also appreciated the opportunity to learn about Copilot and its applications in a professional setting.