Microsoft Copilot Training
Four Copilot courses at $99 each — what it genuinely speeds up, what it still gets wrong, and how to check its work.
Copilot training divides neatly into two kinds. One kind demonstrates the impressive cases and stops. The other tells you where it fails, which is the half you need if you are going to use it on work that matters.
These four courses take the second approach. Copilot is genuinely fast at first drafts, at summarising a long thread, at explaining a formula someone else wrote, and at reformatting content between shapes. It is unreliable at arithmetic it cannot see, at anything depending on data outside the file, and at knowing when it does not know. Trusting it with the first set and checking it on the second is the whole skill.
Each course is $99 and covers one application — Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint. Excel is the one with the sharpest edges, because a wrong number looks exactly like a right one and Copilot will produce a confident formula that is subtly incorrect. A large part of that session is verification technique.
One prerequisite that is not on the schedule: Copilot is most useful to people who already know the application. It accelerates someone who can tell whether the output is right and misleads someone who cannot. If you are new to Excel, the Excel courses come first — Copilot afterwards is worth much more.
Dates, prices and registration for Copilot are handled in our booking system, which is always current. See the schedule and register. Prefer to talk it through? Contact us and we will help you pick the right level.
Copilot courses
There are 4 courses in this stream, at $99 each. Individual course pages will appear here once the booking system's catalog is connected to this site — the live schedule lists all of them today, with dates and current pricing.
We would rather show four honest sentences than four invented course outlines. See the skill assessment if you want help picking a starting point in the meantime.
Where each course sits
Learn the application first, then Copilot for it. Copilot amplifies judgement rather than replacing it — the courses are ordered on that assumption.
Scroll the diagram sideways to see the full path.
If you are not sure which of these you are ready for, the skill assessment asks eight questions about what you already do and recommends one. It takes about five minutes and asks for nothing in return.
Who teaches this
David Poitras — PowerConcepts Instructor
Teaches Microsoft Office, Custom solutions. Read the full bio and meet the other instructors, including how the CAFE method structures a class.
What comes with the course
- 90 days of video-library access, with the exercise files from class.
- A free retake for one year — the same course again, at no charge.
- No more than 10 people in a public class.
- In person or live online, with the same hands-on format either way.
Training several people at once? Corporate training is scoped to your team's skill mix and built around your own files, which for a group is almost always the better format.
Copilot training questions
Do I need a Copilot licence to take the course?
To practise in your own files afterwards, yes — Microsoft 365 Copilot is a paid add-on. The class itself is useful either way, and plenty of people take it while deciding whether the licence is worth buying.
Will Copilot replace learning Excel?
No, and the honest version of that answer is more useful than the marketing one. Copilot writes formulas confidently and is sometimes wrong. Spotting that requires knowing what right looks like, so it raises the ceiling for people who know Excel and raises the risk for people who do not.
What can Copilot not do well?
Arithmetic across data it cannot see, anything requiring information outside the file, and recognising its own uncertainty. It will produce a plausible answer rather than saying it does not know, which is why the courses spend real time on how to check its output.
How much do the Copilot courses cost?
Each of the four is $99. Confirm current dates and pricing on the live schedule before registering — the booking system is authoritative.
How big are the classes?
Public classes are capped at 10 participants. That cap is the reason the instructor can work with your file rather than only the sample file, and it is deliberate rather than a scheduling accident.
Is remote training the same course as in person?
The same course, the same instructor and the same exercise files. For remote delivery we use software that lets the instructor see every participant’s screen, so when you get stuck the instructor sees it rather than waiting for you to describe it.