First Class: July 11, 2026 · 100% Virtual
Mastering Artificial Intelligence
A hands-on, 6-week program designed to take your team from AI fundamentals to building real-world intelligent agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio.
No prior coding experience needed
Certificate of completion included
100% virtual, 2 days/week, 2 hours/day
$499
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First Class Starts July 11
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30
Days
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23
Hours
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56
Minutes
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34
Seconds
Saturdays & Sundays
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
Live on Microsoft Teams
What You'll Learn
Six weeks of structured learning, weighted toward hands-on practice and real-world agent building.
30%Agent Building
22%Prompting
18%M365 Copilot
15%AI Concepts
10%Tools
5%Capstone
Curriculum Weighting
Agentic AI & Agent Building30%
Prompt Engineering22%
Copilot for Microsoft 36518%
Core AI Concepts15%
AI Tools Overview10%
Final Capstone Project5%
Your 6-Week Journey
Each week builds on the last, from concepts to tools to building your own AI agents.
Week 1
AI Foundations
Week 2
Prompt Engineering
Week 3
AI Tools in Action
Week 4
Copilot for M365
Week 5
Agentic AI Studio
Week 6
Final Capstone Project
The Curriculum
6 Modules, 6 Weeks
Each module builds on the last. Click any module to see full details.
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Week 1 · Days 1–2
AI Foundations & Core Concepts
Build a strong conceptual foundation in AI, ML, and Generative AI before touching tools
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Core Topics
- What is AI? Foundations, history & types (Narrow, General, Super AI)
- AI vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning explained simply
- Core AI domains: Machine Learning, NLP & Computer Vision
- Machine Learning essentials: supervised, unsupervised & reinforcement learning
- The ML workflow: data collection → preprocessing → training → evaluation
- Model evaluation basics: accuracy, precision & recall
- Generative AI & Large Language Models: how transformers and GPT work
- Responsible AI & Ethics: bias, fairness, transparency & governance
Hands-On Labs
- Identify AI vs. non-AI examples in everyday life
- Walk through a simple classification / prediction example
- Live demo: using ChatGPT for content writing & summarization
- Hands-on workshop: prompt lab, no-code ML model, or AI content portfolio
- Explore an AI tool (ChatGPT, Copilot, or Teachable Machine)
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Week 2 · Days 3–4
Prompt Engineering Mastery
Master the art and science of communicating effectively with AI models
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Core Topics
- What is prompt engineering & why it’s the most practical AI skill today
- The four cornerstones: Intent, Context, Specificity & Clarity
- Zero-shot, one-shot & few-shot prompting
- Role / persona prompting & instruction-based prompting
- Structured reasoning prompts for step-by-step problem solving
- Advanced: Self-Consistency, Tree-of-Thought & prompt chaining
- System messages, custom instructions & output control
- Handling hallucinations, bias, verification & prompt injection
Hands-On Labs
- Rewrite vague prompts into structured prompts
- Create a few-shot classifier for customer feedback
- Use persona prompting: explain a topic to a 10-year-old vs. a PhD
- Solve a word problem with step-by-step structured reasoning
- Capstone: build a portfolio of 4–5 polished prompts
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Week 3 · Days 5–6
AI Tools in Action
Hands-on exploration of the most impactful AI tools across every category
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Core Topics
- The AI tools landscape: categories & how to choose the right tool
- Text & chat: ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Claude
- AI for productivity, data analysis & workflow automation
- Image generation: DALL·E, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Stable Diffusion
- Audio & video: Synthesia, Runway, ElevenLabs, Canva AI
- Research tools: Perplexity, Elicit, Consensus, SciSpace
- Code assistants: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, CodeWhisperer
- Free vs. paid tools: tiers, token limits & subscription models
Hands-On Labs
- Tool comparison lab: same prompt across ChatGPT, Copilot & Claude
- Summarize an article across Gemini, ChatGPT & Copilot
- Generate a professional image using DALL·E or Firefly
- Use Perplexity for cited research & compare with ChatGPT
- Capstone: build your personal AI toolkit mapped to daily tasks
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Week 4 · Days 7–8
Copilot for Microsoft 365
Hands-on mastery of M365 Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & Teams
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Core Topics
- Understanding M365 Copilot: how it works with Microsoft Graph
- Copilot in Word: drafting, editing & summarizing documents
- Copilot in Excel: data analysis, formulas & visualizations
- Copilot in PowerPoint: creating presentations from prompts & docs
- Copilot in Outlook: email drafting, summarizing & coaching
- Copilot in Teams: meeting summaries & action items
- Copilot Chat, OneNote, Copilot Pages & agents
- The 4-part prompt framework: Goal, Context, Source & Expectations
Hands-On Labs
- Create a project proposal from a brief using Copilot in Word
- Upload a dataset & build a dashboard with Copilot in Excel
- Convert a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation
- Summarize a long email thread & draft a follow-up reply
- Capstone: full quarterly business review workflow across all apps
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Week 5 · Days 9–10
Agentic AI with Copilot Studio
Build, extend & deploy autonomous AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio
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Core Topics
- What is Agentic AI? From AI that assists to AI that acts
- Core agent capabilities: retrieval, generation & action
- Conversational, task-based & autonomous agents
- Intro to Copilot Studio: Agent Builder vs. Copilot Studio
- Building blocks: knowledge sources, topics, tools & triggers
- Task agents: agent flows & human-in-the-loop approvals
- Autonomous agents: email triggers, scheduling & Computer-Using Agents (CUA)
- Agent governance, security & Responsible AI
Hands-On Labs
- Create & deploy a basic agent with knowledge sources & topics
- Add a connector / tool to retrieve live data
- Build an expense approval agent with agent flows
- Build an autonomous support agent with email triggers
- Capstone: build an IT helpdesk, approval, or news-monitor agent
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Week 6 · Days 11–12
Final Capstone Project
Apply everything across all 6 weeks to design, build & present a real-world AI solution
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Project Categories
- Enterprise productivity & automation projects
- AI agents with Copilot Studio (helpdesk, onboarding, FAQ)
- Autonomous agents & workflow automation (CUA, invoice processing)
- Data analysis & insights dashboards
- Content creation & prompt engineering showcases
- Industry-specific solutions (healthcare, retail, education, real estate)
- Project planning, architecture design & build sprint
- Final presentations, live demos, peer voting & graduation
Deliverables
- Choose from 25+ real-world use cases across 6 categories
- Complete a one-page project plan & architecture design
- Build sprint: develop your working solution with instructor support
- Prepare a 3–5 slide deck & prompt log
- Present a 5–7 min demo & earn your course certificate
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Certificate of Completion
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