Microsoft Releases 4 FREE Copilot Courses

By Microsoft MVP and MCT · Pluralsight Author

Published April 9, 2024 · Updated January 15, 2026 · Copilot for Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft has just released four new Copilot for Microsoft 365 Official Courses – and in this video I will show you have you can have access to ALL the content FOR FREE!

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Video Summary

Here are the key points from the video:

  • Microsoft has released four new official Microsoft 365 Copilot courses, available for free.
  • The courses cover various aspects of using Copilot in Microsoft 365, including hands-on exercises for different business roles.
  • Each course includes modules on introduction, exploring possibilities, optimizing and extending Copilot, and specific use cases or tasks.
  • Before booking an instructor-led course, ensure it includes hands-on labs to practice using Copilot, as these courses can be expensive.
  • Pluralsight offers over 10 hours of Copilot content for a monthly or discounted yearly subscription, providing an affordable alternative for learning about Copilot.

For more information, read the transcript blog below, or watch the video above!

Video Transcript

Hello everyone, today’s video is all about Copilot training as Microsoft just released four new Microsoft 365 Copilot official courses. And guess what? You have access to all the content absolutely free. In this video, we will cover the courses and how you can get access to the content.

Let me start by saying that isn’t it crazy that Copilot was only announced a year or so ago? I feel like ever since it got announced, Microsoft 365 Copilot is the only thing that Microsoft has been talking about. I feel like I heard it so many times that I have this feeling that it’s been around forever, but it’s only been generally available for six months or so at the time of recording this video. And we now finally have some Microsoft 365 Copilot official courses from Microsoft. There are four courses that we will talk about in this video. We first have course number MS-4004, which is titled “Empower Your Workforce with Copilot for Microsoft 365 Use Cases.” Next up, we have course number MS-4005, which is titled “Craft Effective Prompts for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.” Third, we have a course called “Copilot for Microsoft 365 for Administrators,” which is number MS-4006. And finally, course MS-4007, which is called “Copilot for Microsoft 365 User Enablement Specialist.”

Before we deep dive into those courses, let’s first talk about what is a Microsoft official course, which you will often see abbreviated as MOC. These are courses that Microsoft has built with the main purpose of being delivered in an instructor-led format, and they are usually, but not always, aligned with a Microsoft credential. A Microsoft credential can either be a Microsoft certification or one of the new Microsoft-applied skills. I mentioned that not always because, at least for now, the courses that we’re talking about today are not aligned with any credentials. As it’s a Microsoft official course, Microsoft is in charge of maintaining the training material, the training PowerPoint, and everything about this course. There are two ways to take Microsoft official courses. First, they can be taken at a Microsoft training partner and given by a Microsoft certified trainer, which of course will cost you money, or you can self-study for free since the material is the same between the two. So the big difference is that you pay for having somebody teach that material for you and, of course, answer questions versus consuming it yourself.

Okay, now that we’ve done the quick introduction, let’s start talking about each one of those courses. Let’s start with MS-4004, “Empower Your Workforce with Copilot for Microsoft 365 Use Cases,” which is a one-day course. By the way, all the links to those will be in the description below. Now let’s see what the overview of the course is. This one-day course is composed of two parts: getting started with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and empowering your workforce with Copilot for Microsoft 365 use cases. The first part of the course introduces you to Copilot for Microsoft 365, examines how you can use Copilot throughout the various Microsoft 365 apps, explores best practices for using Copilot and building effective prompts, and examines how you can extend Copilot with plugins and graph connectors. In the second part of this training content, really the heart of this course, students perform a series of hands-on exercises, including seven use cases: executives, sales, marketing, finance, IT, HR, and operations. Those exercises focus on using Copilot in different Microsoft 365 apps, and they complete a series of common business-related tasks pertaining to each use case. Really important, and I want to highlight the next part: to complete the use case exercises in this course, each student must have access to a bring-your-own subscription in which they’re licensed to use Copilot for Microsoft 365. So you need to have your own license in your tenant as those licenses are not provided by the training partner. Of course, you also need to have a OneDrive account since Copilot, especially Copilot in Excel, requires the files to be in OneDrive or, of course, SharePoint to complete the use cases. Now for the audience, this is targeted towards business users that want to enhance their Copilot for Microsoft 365 skills to solve business-related use case scenarios. If we take a look at what’s in the course, we first have a module on introduction to Copilot for Microsoft 365, and then we go on to explore the possibilities with Copilot for Microsoft 365. We then optimized and extended Copilot for Microsoft 365, which honestly was a bit early in the course for me. We did have all the different use cases from executive to sales to the IT use case, the marketing use case, the finance use case, and at the end, we of course have the HR, which I forgot about, and we will have the operation use case. Finally, we will have a challenge use case in which you kind of have a challenge on how to use Copilot to do a certain scenario. Okay, this is it for our first course.

Let’s move on to our next course, which is MS-4005, which is also a one-day course on crafting effective prompts for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. This course enables you to discover ways to craft effective and contextual prompts for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 that create, simplify, transform, and compile content across Microsoft 365 applications. In this course, you will learn the importance of providing a clear goal, context, source, and expectation in your prompt for best results. This course covers real-world scenarios and examples of using Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, OneNote, and Chat, which by the way, already got renamed to the Copilot app inside Teams. If we take a look at what’s covered in this course, we start with an introduction to Copilot for Microsoft 365, and then we have to explore the possibilities with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and optimize and extend Copilot for Microsoft 365. You might recognize some of those. We will then learn how to summarize, create, draft edit and transform content with Copilot for Microsoft 365, and end with ask questions and analysing content with Copilot for Microsoft 365. I mentioned it briefly, but again, something to be aware of. We talked about it again a little bit before. The first three modules overlap between the MS-4004 and MS-4005, so personally, I feel like I wouldn’t pay for both those courses as there’s so much overlap. So if you want to take this as an instructor-led course and you want both of them, maybe work with the training provider to have a day and a half so you don’t overlap the content.

Okay, now let’s move over to course number three, and this one is called Copilot for Microsoft 365 Administrators. This one is also a one-day course, but of course, it’s focused on IT professionals and consultants. Again, this is course number MS-4006. The course begins by examining the Microsoft 365 Copilot design. Its main focus, however, is on the security and compliance features that administrators must configure in their Microsoft 365 tenant to protect their company’s organizational data before they implement Copilot for Microsoft 365. This course is designed for administrators or Microsoft 365 administrators who are already familiar with basic Microsoft 365 administration, so make sure again you have the basic M365 admin knowledge before you go into this Copilot-specific course. Now let’s talk about what we’ll cover in this course. We first start with a module on examining the Copilot for Microsoft 365 design, and we will then learn how to implement Copilot for Microsoft 365. Then we start talking security with examining data security and compliance for Copilot for Microsoft 365. We then learn how we can manage secure user access in Microsoft 365. Next up, we learn how to manage permissions, roles, and role groups in Microsoft 365. After that, we move a bit more into compliance. We will learn how to implement data classification of sensitive information, and we will learn about sensitivity labels. We will learn about them, and we will also learn how to implement them. So really, this course seems to be kind of a small SC-400 course for M365 admins. In a day, you learn a bit of Copilot, a bit of security, a bit of compliance with the main goal of securing your tenant for Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Okay, we have one more course to talk about: MS-4007, Copilot for Microsoft 365 User Enablement Specialist. At the time of recording, this course doesn’t have an official course page yet on Microsoft Learn, but it’s available on Part Py, so you can already register for it. It does have a learning path, so all the content is there; it just doesn’t have the fancy course page layout yet. This course will teach you how to drive the adoption of Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 using the Microsoft 365 adoption framework to create and implement a robust adoption plan. There are four modules in this course: first, explore adoption methods and strategies for the adoption of Copilot for Microsoft 365; then, envision a successful adoption of Copilot for Microsoft 365; followed by onboard and empower your employees to use Copilot for Microsoft 365 efficiently; and finally, drive value and maximize the impact of Copilot for Microsoft 365 within your organization. As you can see, this one-day course is really focused on creating an adoption plan for your company about Copilot in Microsoft 365. On this slide, you have all the different links to the courses, but again, they will also be in the description below.

Something that I want to tell you before you book an instructor-led course: ask them this one question—will I, as the learner, have a Copilot lab to test things out during the training, or is it only a slides and demos training? This is very important because usually, those one-day trainings will cost between $800 and $1,100 for one day, and if you do not get the chance to actually play with it and use it yourself, you might not retain a lot of the information. At $800 a day, you cannot re-watch it later; it can be quite expensive. So make sure you ask them, and even if you decide to go forward with it, that’s okay, but at least you will have correct expectations.

Now, something else I wanted to mention: if you’re looking for Microsoft Copilot affordable instructor-led courses, Pluralsight has over 10 hours of Copilot content available to you. You can access it all for about $30 for a month or buy a discounted yearly subscription and get access to all the new amazing Copilot content that we are building. On this note, I just want to say a huge thank you for listening to this video. I really hope you enjoyed it, and if you did, make sure to like the video and subscribe to the channel. It really helps a lot, and this way, you will get the latest news on Microsoft certifications, Copilot, SharePoint, Teams, and more.