Microsoft Power Platform Foundations
2h 8mBeginner2025-03-24
Authors
Gini von Courter
Teaching computer classes on Microsoft Office for 20+ years
Course details
Microsoft has grouped several of their business end-user products together into a group called the Power Platform. These no-code and low-code applications are used for building business applications and workflows, and gathering, interpreting, and visualizing data across the business organization. In this course, Gini von Courter gives you an overview of the basic capabilities of some of the key applications in the Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power BI, and Copilot.
Skills covered
DynamicsPower AutomateBusiness IntelligenceFoundationsData ScienceBusiness Analysis and StrategyMicrosoft
Concepts
Introduction
- Power tools for business power users
- What you need
- The power in the Power Platform
Power Apps
- The power of mobile first apps
- Create an app from a template
- Start an app using Copilot
- Save an app
- Create an app from a SharePoint list
- Next steps for Power Apps
Power Automate
- The power of workflow automation
- Create an automated flow (cloud flow)
- Create a flow using Copilot
- Create an instant flow
- Run an instant flow from the mobile app
- Next steps for Power Automate
Power Pages
- The power of portals
- Build a site using a template
- Build a site using Copilot
- Navigate the design studio
- Next steps for Power Pages
Power BI
- The power of business intelligence
- Create a semantic model using a dataset
- Create visualizations to illustrate data
- Cross-filter and filter in your report
- Save a report
- Create and save a dashboard
- Next steps for Power BI
Copilot
- The power of Copilot agents
- Create an agent from a prebuilt agent
- Planning an agent
- Create an agent using prompts
- Using knowledge and topics in your agent
- Test your agent
- Next steps for Copilot agents
Conclusion
- Course wrap up