Enhancing Productivity with CoPilot

Funding Validity Period

8 August 2024

7 August 2026

Course Overview

This course will equip you with the skills to leverage the power of Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant that streamlines your workflow in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Through a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises, you'll unlock CoPilot's capabilities to automate tasks, improve accuracy, and enhance your creativity across these essential Microsoft applications.

Skills Acquired

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

Understand what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is and how they have evolved.
Utilize natural language prompts to execute common tasks in Excel, including creating formulas, sorting and filtering data, and generating data visualizations.
Leverage Copilot's capabilities in Word to draft content, edit and rewrite existing documents, create outlines and summaries, and generate ideas for research based on context.
Use Copilot to formulate data, create charts, and analyze data in Excel.
Utilize Copilot in PowerPoint to create presentations from prompts, improve slide design and
layout, generate speaker notes, collaborate with others, and finalize presentations for
delivery.

Learning Modules

Learning Unit 1: Introduction to CoPilot and AI

What is AI & GPT? Where are they deployed?
The GPT race, competing products
What is in Copilot?
Installing and using Copilot

Learning Unit 2: Word with CoPilot

Using prompts to create drafts, outlines, and structured documents.
Learning how to use Copilot to edit and enhance written content, including adjusting tone and style.
Transforming text into tables and summarizing long documents.
Utilising Copilot to generate ideas and conduct research based on document context.
Exploring voice commands and other interactive ways to work with Copilot in Word.

Learning Unit 3: Excel with CoPilot

Understanding what Copilot can do in Excel
How to access Copilot and prepare your Excel
Use natural language prompts to perform tasks like adding formula columns, sorting and filtering data
Using Copilot to analyse data and gain insights, create graphs, and pivot tables
Further Analysis and Copilot’s Limitations.

Learning Unit 4: PowerPoint with CoPilot

Understanding how Copilot can transform presentations.
Learning to use Copilot to create slides from prompts or documents.
Using Copilot and Microsoft Designer to improve slide aesthetics and layouts.
Generating speaker notes and using Copilot to practice presentations.
Collaborating on presentations and sharing them with Copilot’s assistance.
Refining presentations and preparing them for delivery with Copilot’s help.

What is AI & GPT? Where are they deployed?
The GPT race, competing products
What is in Copilot?
Installing and using Copilot

Using prompts to create drafts, outlines, and structured documents.
Learning how to use Copilot to edit and enhance written content, including adjusting tone and style.
Transforming text into tables and summarizing long documents.
Utilising Copilot to generate ideas and conduct research based on document context.
Exploring voice commands and other interactive ways to work with Copilot in Word.

Understanding what Copilot can do in Excel
How to access Copilot and prepare your Excel
Use natural language prompts to perform tasks like adding formula columns, sorting and filtering data
Using Copilot to analyse data and gain insights, create graphs, and pivot tables
Further Analysis and Copilot’s Limitations.

Understanding how Copilot can transform presentations.
Learning to use Copilot to create slides from prompts or documents.
Using Copilot and Microsoft Designer to improve slide aesthetics and layouts.
Generating speaker notes and using Copilot to practice presentations.
Collaborating on presentations and sharing them with Copilot’s assistance.
Refining presentations and preparing them for delivery with Copilot’s help.

Who is this course is for

This training is relevant to administrative professionals, general office workers and anyone who needs to work faster and smarter in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint can leverage CoPilot's automation and time-saving features.

Academic prerequisites

Learners must be able to read, write, speak and listen to English at secondary school level.
Learner should have at least 1 year’s working experience in any industry
Learners must be able to operate a personal computer, use keyboard and mouse.

Course Fees

Fees	Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs)	Non Small Medium Enterprises	Singaporean Employees aged 40 years and above
Full Fee	$500.00	$500.00	$500.00
9% GST (on full course fee)	$45.00	$45.00	$45.00
Funding Amount	$350.00 (70% off course fee)	$250.00 (50% off course fee)	$350.00 (70% off course fee)
Nett Fee Payable (incl. GST)	$195.00	$295.00	$195.00

Course Fee Funding:
SME: 70% of course fee
Non-SME: 50% of course fee
Non-SME(MCES): 70% of course fee

Eligible for Absentee Payroll Funding

$4.50 per training hour capped at $100,000 per enterprise per calendar year

Eligible for SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC)

Fees	Singapore Citizens (40 years and above)	Singapore Citizens (21 to 39 years old) & Permanent Residents (21 years old and above)
Full Fee	$500.00	$500.00
9% GST (on full course fee)	$45.00	$45.00
Funding Amount	$350.00 (70% off course fee)	$250.00 (50% off course fee)
Nett Fee Payable (incl. GST)	$195.00	$295.00

MCES: Singaporean aged 40 years and above
Normal: Singaporean / PR aged 21 years and above

Course Fee Funding:
MCES: 70% of course fee
Normal: 50% of course fee

Eligible for UTAP funding
Eligible for SkillsFuture Credit
Eligible for PSEA Funds