2023-11-08 20:53:47
The Microsoft 365 Copilot First Impressions course is now available for free and complements the company’s journey to train professionals in generative AI
São Paulo, November 8, 2023 – In recent years, the corporate world has seen an increase in intensity and workload. According to the Annual Job Trends Index 2023, a study carried out annually by Microsoft, users carry out, on average, 18 surveys, receive more than 250 emails and participate in around 150 chats daily. Additionally, meetings on Teams have tripled compared to 2020, with some people interacting with up to 11 apps every day. With the aim of helping professionals navigate this constantly changing scenario, Microsoft, in partnership with LinkedIn, the largest professional social network in the world, made the learning trail available for free “Essential Career Foundations in Generative Artificial Intelligence” which now has a new module: “Microsoft 365 Copilot First Impressions“. The training arrives to complement the other five courses launched in August this year focused on basic concepts, application at work, ethical considerations and the impact of Generative AI tools in today’s society.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI assistant for work that can unlock productivity and unleash creativity in the apps millions of people use every day: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. The product was announced for general availability on November 1st for corporate users.
In the “First Impressions of Microsoft 365 Copilot” course, students will have the opportunity to learn how to generate drafts and create presentations from natural language prompts. They will receive guidance on how to use Copilot to create visually impactful presentations in PowerPoint from a text document in Word, extract critical trends from data in Excel, and compose or edit text in Word.
This is the first module focused on this type of tool and the expectation is to launch other training courses throughout the year. The training, which lasts 23 minutes, also covers the ability to compose email messages and summarize conversations in Outlook. Attendees will learn how to use Copilot to generate real-time meeting summaries and follow-up tasks in Teams. A brief introduction is the starting point for attendees to familiarize themselves with Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant. It is worth noting that participants who complete the course will receive a Career Essentials certificate following passing the knowledge test.
“Generative Artificial Intelligence is a technology that will increasingly be part of our daily lives and the tendency is for it to have a continuous and accelerated evolution, bringing countless opportunities to the job market. For our Brazilian population to benefit from this scenario, it is essential that we accelerate the training and retraining of today’s and future professionals. These courses that we are offering for free in conjunction with LinkedIn are the gateway to this world that has a growing demand for qualified professionals in technology and digital skills and at the same time a way to bring AI to everyone”, says Lucia Rodrigues, Philanthropy leader at Microsoft Brazil.
Learning Track
The complete learning path has five modules. Are they: What is Generative Artificial Intelligence?; Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Evolution of Online Reflective Researchwhich introduces the differences between search engines and reasoning mechanisms, emphasizing the learning of reflective search strategies in the universe of Generative AI; Making Work Easier with Microsoft Bing Chatwhich shows how the tool can be used to facilitate and automate some jobs, increasing productivity; Ethics in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligencewhich brings ethical considerations to be incorporated into the process of creating and implementing Generative AI with some ways to address these challenges and, finally, the Introduction to Artificial Intelligencewhich introduces the main tools in today’s artificial intelligence.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft)’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Present in 190 countries, with 122 subsidiaries, the company is a leader in innovation and the development of promising technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud applications. In Brazil for 34 years, Microsoft has an ecosystem of more than 25 thousand partners. In this way, the company maintains a robust, highly efficient business structure, which also has a Transparency Center, which aims to promote reliable and secure computing, the Advanced Technology Laboratory (ATL – Advanced Technology Lab), and the Microsoft Technology (MTC – Microsoft Technology Center), in operation in Brazil since January 2012. With the aim of contributing to actions capable of preparing professionals for the digital economy, reducing inequalities and promoting inclusion in the country, Microsoft also launched in 2020 the Microsoft Mais Brasil Plan, which has, among its pillars, the training of professionals for the technology market, an essential condition for promoting the digital transformation of Brazilian companies. From July 2020, when the Mais Brasil plan was established, until July 2023, 7.8 million people were reached with different qualification and requalification initiatives.
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