In this Bigger Brains course, you’ll explore the essential features and tools of Microsoft Whiteboard, designed to enhance team collaboration and creativity. You’ll learn how to access and create new whiteboards, navigate the intuitive interface, and apply drawing and annotation tools to bring your ideas to life. You’ll also learn how to add and manipulate objects like images, Loop components, and web links to enrich your content. You’ll see how to use templates to streamline your creation process and how to integrate Whiteboard with other Microsoft 365 apps for a seamless workflow. You’ll explore real-time collaboration features that make teamwork more dynamic and productive, and you’ll learn how to use Copilot to enhance your whiteboards with AI-powered assistance. Finally, you’ll discuss best practices for using Microsoft Whiteboard to maximize its impact in meetings, brainstorming sessions, and project planning.
In this Bigger Brains course, you’ll learn what sets Claude apart in the world of large language models. Guided by subject matter expert Dr. Kevin Jones, who has over twenty years of experience with Natural Language Models, Machine Learning, and LLMs, you’ll explore what makes Claude distinctive, its focus on reliability and accuracy, and the differences between its available tiers. You’ll learn how Claude handles data retention and how to opt in or out of specific settings. You’ll also learn how to create an account, adjust privacy preferences, open incognito chats, and navigate the interface. Kevin will show you how to organize your work by renaming, searching, and deleting chats and how to define and use projects for longer workflows. You’ll explore Claude’s core features, including coding assistance, document analysis, and longform writing—and learn how to write effective prompts for each. You’ll see how extended thinking mode and research mode support deeper, more complex tasks. You’ll also learn about Claude’s integration options and its strengths and limitations, equipping you to use it effectively in your daily work.
In this Bigger Brains course, you’ll explore Gemini’s unique features and capabilities that set it apart from other AI tools. Guided by Dr. Kevin Jones—a subject matter expert with over twenty years of experience in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Large Language Models—you’ll learn how to create an account, adjust privacy settings, and navigate the interface with confidence. You’ll see how to rename and search chats, create temporary conversations, and define and use Gems to organize your work.
You’ll also learn about Gemini’s core features, including multimodal analysis, YouTube video insights, and image and video generation. You’ll explore the benefits of Gemini’s large context window for research, discover how to leverage Deep Research and Workspace integration effectively, and use Google search for comprehensive results. By the end of this course, you’ll understand Gemini’s strengths and limitations, best practices for using it, and how to get started with features that make Gemini a powerful tool for productivity and creativity.
In this Bigger Brains course, Microsoft expert Tim Blake will walk you through many of the practical uses for Copilot. You’ll learn how Microsoft Copilot integrates into apps like Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more, going beyond prompts to see how the AI actually functions in each tool to help you work smarter and faster. You’ll explore how to use Copilot to draft emails, summarize meetings, rewrite and refine content, generate presentations, and find documents using natural language. You’ll see how shared features like translation, help prompts, and file search work across multiple apps to support your daily tasks.
You’ll explore how Copilot works behind the scenes, learning how it uses your organizational data securely through Microsoft Graph and existing permissions and how you can use it to extract insights from your data. Whether you’re a business user, team lead, or support staff, this course will give you a clear, practical understanding of how to use Copilot responsibly and effectively. No AI or technical background is required, but familiarity with Microsoft 365 is recommended.
Having access to powerful tools is different from knowing how to use them with proficiency. Many people currently using Outlook are not taking advantage of the software’s advanced features to customize their messaging and improve communication.
In this course, Microsoft expert Vicki Drewa will show you how to use many of the organization features built into Outlook to set up accounts, manage data files, and manage your inbox. You will be able to customize your Outlook environment by adding commands to the Quick Access Toolbar and placing groups and commands on a new tab.
Wondering how to best use Outlook to communicate effectively? You’ll learn how to customize your emails through formatting rules, stationery, and themes. You’ll be able to share information by inserting tables, calendars, and images into your messages and collect feedback by using polls and voting buttons. Additionally, scheduling will be easier as you’ll be able to share calendars, delegate permissions and create calendar groups. And more!
Improve your Outlook expertise by becoming more proficient in using many of the tools and features Outlook has to offer.
Few things have a greater impact on your productivity than how you use Outlook. Too many people waste time on unnecessary tasks when they could be taking advantage of the many features embedded in Outlook. This course will help you brush up on your Outlook skills, so you can become more productive while using the basic elements of Outlook.
In this course, Microsoft expert Vicky Drewa will show you how to use many of the advanced features built into Outlook to help you work with multiple users and accounts. These include setting up profiles, managing multiple accounts, delegating permission levels, and viewing shared folders. By reviewing the many options and settings available for email and calendars, you will be able to customize your Outlook environment so it works best for you. You’ll also learn how to set preferences for working offline or on slow connections.
Are you looking for some time savers? Learning how to use add-ins, templates, and advanced search techniques will help you work more efficiently and effectively. Customizing flags and Quick Actions options will help you keep track of tasks based on your emails.
Wondering how to manage all your emails? Vicki will show you some great tips on cleaning up your Inbox using archiving and the Clean Up feature, as well as how to customize policies and retention settings for individual emails and folders. You also learn how to customize business cards and share contacts multiple ways.
Improve your Outlook expertise by becoming more proficient in using many of the tools and features Outlook has to offer.
Few things have greater impact on your productivity than how you use Outlook. Too many people waste time on unnecessary tasks when they could be taking advantage of the many features embedded in Outlook.
In this course, Microsoft expert Kathy Jones will show you how to use many of the features built into Outlook to create professional outgoing messages, such as the accessibility checker and the Editor, as well as message options, signatures, and automatic replies. You’ll also learn tools to manage incoming messages, such as tracking, categories and flags.
Struggling with whether to use Teams or Outlook to schedule meetings? You’ll learn the tricks of using Outlook to manage your Teams meetings. And make sure you customize your calendar to show exactly what you need to see. You’ll also learn collaboration tools such as shared calendars and shared tasks.
Brush up on your Outlook skills, so you can become more efficient using many of the tools Outlook has to offer.
In this comprehensive course taught by Microsoft Certified Trainer Christina Tankersley, you’ll learn how to use all the expert features in Word 365. You’ll learn how to customize the Word interface to save time. You’ll learn to customize tables of contents, watermarks, footnotes, headers, footers, and columns and see how to work with custom and exclude dictionaries. You’ll also streamline mailings by learning how to set up, customize, and perform mail merges.
Christina will show you how to create consistent documentation with document templates and font options. She’ll demonstrate how to create and manage styles as well as how to use advanced find techniques and add cover pages. You’ll learn how to create AutoText, manage Quick Parts, and use the features built into AutoMath and AutoFormat to type and format more efficiently. You’ll also learn how to use graphic tools and drawing options.
If you’re collaborating with others, you’ll find it helpful to learn how to streamline information gathering with forms and how to protect documents when sharing or sending. You’ll even learn how to transform a document into a Sway!
Microsoft Word is a powerful word processing and document creation software used by business professionals worldwide. This intermediate course is taught by Microsoft trainer Christina Tankersley, who will show you how to skillfully use key functions and features. You’ll also learn how to manage your documents and how to improve them using editing and collaboration tools.
