Prove Copilot can carry a full day of ordinary knowledge work. You will run one real task through each core app, comparing a sharp prompt against a lazy one, and finish with artifacts you would genuinely use, not demo output. The pass bar is that at least one of the five artifacts goes on to real use in your week.

Write one prompt using the full anatomy from Module 2 (goal, context, source, format) and one lazy version of the same request; run both in Copilot Chat and keep the two outputs side by side as your before-and-after evidence.
Draft a real document in Word with Copilot, referencing at least two source files you actually use, then revise one section with a follow-up prompt instead of retyping it.
Analyze a spreadsheet in Excel with natural-language prompts: get a summary of the data, generate one chart, and check two of the headline numbers by hand before trusting them.
Turn the Word document into a presentation with PowerPoint Copilot, then fix the two weakest slides with targeted follow-up prompts rather than starting over.
Summarize your longest email thread in Outlook, draft a reply with Copilot, and edit it until it sounds like you rather than a template.
Generate a recap with action items and owners from a Teams meeting, and verify every action item against what was actually said before you share it.
Write a half-page log: which app surprised you most, which prompt failed and why, and the one habit you will keep from this week.

DeliverableA working folder containing the five artifacts (Word document, Excel analysis with chart, presentation, edited email reply, verified meeting recap) plus a prompt log holding the anatomy-versus-lazy comparison and your half-page reflection.

Brown Belt

Advanced

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Advanced Excel Analysis with Copilot

Go beyond formulas: chained multi-step analysis, Clean Data fixes before you calculate, Python-powered statistics and forecasting with Think Deeper, scenario and sensitivity modeling, and large-scale text analysis, with a verification habit built into every prompt.

~45 min (est)9 prompts 6 intermediate · 3 advanced

Document Drafting and Editing Workflows

Master multi-document Word workflows: drafting from multiple referenced sources, enforcing brand voice at scale, comparing versions, cutting bloat without losing facts, and building reusable templates for every recurring deliverable.

~45 min (est)9 prompts 7 intermediate · 2 advanced

Presentation Mastery

Build persuasive, data-accurate decks: narrative arc structure, assertion headlines, complete speaker notes kits, Excel-driven slides, reusable Copilot skills for your branding, and a pre-flight number audit before anything gets presented.

~45 min (est)9 prompts 7 intermediate · 2 advanced

Meeting Intelligence and Teams Workflows

Run the full meeting lifecycle with Copilot in Teams: prepare in minutes, catch up in real time, extract decisions and commitments after, convert action items into tracked Planner work, and keep noisy channels readable.

~40 min (est)8 prompts 6 intermediate · 2 advanced

Email Mastery and Communication Workflows

Turn Outlook from a time sink into a system: daily triage against your own rules, tone coaching on risky replies, scoped section refinement, thread untangling, and a weekly audit of every promise made and owed.

~40 min (est)8 prompts 6 intermediate · 2 advanced

Capstone · Brown BeltKnot open

The Monday Machine

Build the weekly rhythm that produces your reporting without heroics. You will chain Excel analysis, a Word summary, a deck, meeting intelligence, and a distribution email into one repeatable pipeline, run it on a real week, and time it. The pass bar is a pipeline a colleague could execute from your documentation alone.

Design the weekly pipeline on paper first: the data source, the Excel analysis, the summary document, the deck, and the distribution email, with a named audience for each artifact.
Run the Excel leg: analyze the week's data with Copilot, using Clean Data or the Python-backed deep analysis where the dataset justifies it, and verify the headline numbers by hand before they travel any further.
Draft the weekly summary in Word from the Excel findings, in your voice, with every figure traceable back to the workbook.
Build the summary deck in PowerPoint from the Word document, and save your recurring instructions (branding, slide structure) as a reusable Copilot skill so next week starts from them instead of from scratch.
Handle the meeting leg: generate a recap of your key weekly meeting with action items and owners, verify it, and fold the decisions into the summary document.
Draft the distribution email in Outlook with the deck attached and a five-line executive summary, refining tone and length with Copilot before it goes out.
Ask Copilot Chat in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app (work-grounded with the full Copilot license): what did I commit to this week and what is still open? Cross-check its answer against your recap and inbox, and note any misses.
Run the entire pipeline on one real week, time each leg, and record the total against your old manual time.

DeliverableA documented weekly reporting pipeline (data to Excel analysis to Word summary to deck to distribution email) that ran once for real, with hand-verified numbers, saved recurring PowerPoint instructions, and a timed before-versus-after comparison.

Black Belt

Mastery

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Cross-App Workflows

Chain Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams into end-to-end pipelines, then graduate to the 2026 surfaces built for cross-app work: Researcher and Analyst agents, Copilot Pages and Notebooks, and Cowork for full delegation.

~50 min (est)22 prompts 2 intermediate · 20 advanced

Copilot Studio: Custom Agents

Build, test, publish, and run custom Copilot agents in Copilot Studio: declarative agents grounded in your documents, agents that take real actions through connectors, and autonomous agents with explicit escalation rules, all priced in Copilot Credits.

~45 min (est)16 prompts 3 intermediate · 13 advanced

Enterprise Prompt Engineering

Turn individual prompt skill into an organizational asset: role-based prompt libraries, few-shot standards, blind evaluation, Copilot Memory and Notebooks, grounding rules, and adoption measurement that survives budget review.

~50 min (est)24 prompts 3 intermediate · 21 advanced

Security, Compliance, and Data Governance

Prove, not assume, the security boundaries of Microsoft 365 Copilot: permission inheritance, sensitivity labels, DLP, oversharing cleanup, agent and Cowork governance, Memory controls, and the Purview audit trail.

~50 min (est)16 prompts 2 intermediate · 14 advanced

Power Workflows and Automation

Combine Copilot with Power Automate to build workflows that run without you: describe-a-flow generation, scheduled and event-driven triggers, AI Builder document processing, approval routing, failure alerts, and a prioritized automation backlog.

~45 min (est)9 prompts 3 intermediate · 6 advanced

Capstone · Black BeltKnot open

The Agent Rollout

Ship a real Copilot deployment to real colleagues. You will take one department process and wrap it in a published agent, supporting flows, a prompt playbook, and a governance sign-off, then run a one-week pilot and report the numbers. The pass bar is not that the system exists, it is that the pilot week produced measured adoption and a defensible go or no-go call.

Pick one department process worth owning end to end and write the business case in half a page: who suffers today, the minutes lost per week, and what done looks like.
Build a Copilot Studio agent grounded in the department's current documents, test it against a fixed question set that includes questions it must refuse, and record the pass rate.
Take the agent through publishing: admin approval, Agent Store availability, and assignment to the pilot group, with a licensing note on who uses it at no extra cost versus metered.
Build the automation layer: at least one event-driven Power Automate flow and one scheduled flow supporting the same process, each with a failure alert and a verified run in run history.
Write the prompt playbook for the process: role-based templates your pilot group can paste, built on the enterprise prompt patterns from Module 13.
Confirm the deployment respects your organization's rules in a one-page governance sign-off: data access, agent permissions, and a named owner for the monthly review.
Run the system for one full week with the pilot group, collecting usage numbers, credit consumption, failed queries, and at least three pieces of user feedback.
Deliver the rollout report: adoption numbers, spreadsheet-computed time saved, cost in Copilot Credits versus your estimate, and a go or no-go recommendation for department-wide rollout.

DeliverableA deployed pilot: a published, admin-approved agent plus two supporting flows with failure alerts, a role-based prompt playbook, a governance sign-off page, and a one-week rollout report with usage, cost, and time-saved numbers behind a go or no-go call.

Beginner Intermediate Advanced Bar length is the module's prompt count against the longest module here; its segments are that module's own mix. Minutes are the curriculum's per-module estimates, summed over what you have woven.

One cell is one module, at its belt cloth Woven cell: module complete Knot open until the belt's last module is woven. Kept on this device only.

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Every published source this curriculum cites: 39 distinct references, counted from the curriculum brief and from the prompts themselves. Prompts that quote one carry a source line; the rest are marked unsourced author prompts.

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13support.microsoft.comedit-with-copilot-in-powerpoint
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