Copilot Cowork 7-Day Challenge: Your Workday Streamlined with AI

Copilot Cowork 7-Day Challenge: Your Workday Streamlined with AI

27mBeginner2026-07-30

Authors

Justin Shaifer

Justin Shaifer

Course details

Learn how to use Copilot Cowork—which carries out tasks across your Microsoft 365 environment—safely and confidently. In this beginner-friendly course, instructor Justin Shaifer teaches nontechnical users how to automate everyday tasks without risking their files. Through a series of practical lessons, Justin shows how to set up a safe practice space, organize files in seconds, create real documents, speed up presentations, and more.

Learning objectives
Create, populate, and share a weekly update in Cowork, evaluating each draft for tone and accuracy before it leaves your hands.
Configure a daily briefing and meeting prep so Cowork surfaces what needs your attention.
Evaluate research output from Cowork for source quality, relevance, and whether anything is outdated or out of context before it goes into your update.
Build and schedule a custom skill into a repeatable workflow, then share what you built with colleagues.

Concepts

Introduction

  • Copilot Cowork - Your AI teammate in Microsoft 365

The Copilot Cowork Challenge

  • Day 1 - Manage your day with Copilot Cowork
  • Day 2 - Set up Copilot Cowork to think with you
  • Day 3 - Run the full meeting lifecycle in Copilot Cowork
  • Day 4 - Research across your company's data with Copilot Cowork
  • Day 5 - Draft a report and take action with Copilot Cowork
  • Day 6 - Build a custom Copilot Cowork skill from scratch
  • Day 7 - Create a multiformat deliverable in Copilot Cowork
40,000 Toman