Practical AI Training for Staff Tasks

Microsoft Copilot for Data Analysis and Data Visualization

Use Microsoft 365 chat, Researcher and Analyst, examine Excel data and pivots, develop Power BI reporting and Fabric lakehouse/notebook outputs, then communicate through Word and PowerPoint. The outline includes generated DAX, Python and SQL.

Generative AI for Researchers

Choose a research topic, build a blueprint with search terms, questions, hypotheses and plan, compare claims and metric notes for patterns, contradictions and gaps, then write an audience-specific brief and executive summary.

3 hours chrono pour détecter la désinformation en ligne

The sequence examines cognitive/emotional bias and algorithmic amplification, then recognises manipulated material including hallucinations and deepfakes. A five-step verification method checks author/date/intention, cross-checks sources, analyses content, inspects visuals and restores context. Individual cases, peer/trainer feedback and an online questionnaire support application before sharing.

NotebookLM exploiter l’IA générative pour analyser synthétiser et produire des contenus fiables

Participants create a grounded notebook, prepare and import a source corpus, add research, then compare and question documents. They check accuracy, completeness and coherence before producing a synthesis, podcast and distribution support. The continuing case supplies a restitution kit.

Organiser sa veille en exploitant l’IA

Learners define a monitoring question, organise RSS/newsletter/social sources and compare their reliability and currency. They prompt article summaries, verify sources and bias and build a monitoring assistant. A progressive no-code case then connects collection, triage, distribution and archiving in a simple automation. A scenario-based online questionnaire evaluates the advertised learning.

Mastering Translation AI

Compare ambiguous ecommerce/mobile UI strings, then add glossary and translation-memory context. Configure Crowdin project, file and string context, use reusable terminology and memory in a customized translator, and consider API keys, billing and data handling.

Microsoft Copilot for Learning & Development

• Draft learning objectives and course outlines, facilitator guides, scripts and aligned questions
• Review storyboards, slides and microlearning for audience and tone. Use contextual prompts and feedback metrics to update training materials while considering privacy and bias.

Instructional Design with ADDIE and AI

• Diagnose performance before choosing training
• Gather stakeholder evidence and critical tasks. Align objectives with learner needs, cognitive load and accessibility, storyboard and prototype with quality gates, pilot with facilitators/managers, support transfer and evaluate business KPIs and maintenance.

Project Management with ChatGPT: AI-Powered PM Guide

• Develop charter, benefits and business case
• Map stakeholders, scope, work breakdown, schedule, costs and risks. Draft issue, quality, procurement and communication artifacts, then close with lessons, handover and approvals.

Effiziente Datenanalyse mit Künstlicher Intelligenz

Prepare and clean data, link spreadsheet tables and create macros, interpret datasets, explore forecasting/clustering and visualise scenarios. Each theory block has an exercise and learners may bring own datasets.

KI-Praxis Controlling: Management Reporting

Generate a drill-down controlling dashboard from data, refine layout manually, generate management commentary, and create a supplied-data revenue dashboard with result presentation and feedback.

KI-Praxis Controlling: Projektcontrolling

Compare plan/actual data in Smartsheet, derive risk reports in ClickUp, adjust workloads and timelines with Teamwork, forecast budget deviations, then build a monitoring dashboard or risk analysis from supplied project data and present it.

Master Generative AI with Google NotebookLM

Create a notebook, add and organize approved sources, evaluate source quality and ask source-grounded questions. Customize reports and study guides, generate source-based flashcards and quizzes with chosen difficulty, and assemble maps, audio and slide outputs.

Perplexity AI for Research and Writing

Ask, refine and deepen Perplexity research questions, inspect citation credibility and cross-check conflicting claims, then build an evidence-based article outline. Broader lessons apply writing, interviews, travel and photography workflows.

Claude AI for Data Analysis and Visualization

• Inspect CSV columns, gaps, labels and duplicates while preserving row counts. Split vague performance questions by region, product, period and baseline
• Trace numbers and recompute them, choose charts for audience/action, build a dashboard and communicate a two-minute brief with caveats.

AI Tools for Researchers: From Writing to Publishing Your Academic Papers

LAMZ demonstrates research tools for finding, organizing, checking and presenting academic literature. The project builds a ResearchRabbit collection, tags and annotates papers, then submits screenshots and a workflow explanation for community feedback. Its reference to lesson two conflicts with the visible ResearchRabbit demonstration position.

Creating Engaging Training with Microsoft Tools and AI

Use Planner and Forms to establish training needs, Word/Copilot for course materials and activities, PowerPoint for layouts and recording, and Speaker Coach for rehearsal. Deliver with Teams/ZoomIt and evaluate with Forms. Microsoft365 feature entitlement is a separate prerequisite.

ChatGPT Work Mode for Small Business: Plan Better Marketing

Louise Laurie demonstrates a six-part brief, reviews an audience report, sets a recurring research workflow and turns approved findings into a content plan. The project selects one recurring task, writes and tests a brief, and shares a reflection. Participants lacking Work mode can prepare the brief without running automation.

Craft a Winning Marketing Strategy for Your Small Business With ChatGPT

Louise Laurie develops a SWOT, reviews market and competitor evidence, constructs a persona, selects measurable goals and tactics, then chooses indicators. Learners submit a one-page strategy or selected section. This one-off strategy output differs from the creator’s recurring report workflow.

Zapier Automation & AI: Zapier Workflows & AI Automation

• Connect triggers, actions and accounts
• Build Calendar/Slack notices and Gmail/Notion multi-step flows with filters and delays. Add weekly reports, Typeform/HubSpot approval branches, formatting and loops, then use Copilot to map/test fields and preview agent actions and knowledge responses.

Rapid Instructional Design using ChatGPT prompt writer

Complete learner and content analyses using supplied PDFs, choose three topics, enter findings in the Excel prompt writer, adjust dropdowns and prompts, then curate generated outlines, scripts, questions and activities into actual learning materials.

AI Translation for Business: Fix Errors Fast

Add context before translating, supply an organization-specific terminology list, run a second prompt to check tone and hidden mistakes, clarify ambiguous source text before mass translation, and choose validation effort according to the audience and importance.

AI & Automation for Professionals: Copilot & Power Platform

• Configure Copilot prompts and agents
• Build a SharePoint Procurement Strategy Tracker and document library. Trigger Teams notices on new items, route manager approval or rejection, notify authors, add finance and board stages, then connect a canvas app and troubleshoot fields. Bonus flow creates strategy, tender and contract folders.

ChatGPT in Translation: How to Use ChatGPT AI in Translation

Use translation-specific prompts and demonstrate named language directions, including Arabic, Bengali, French, Chinese, Hindi, German and Spanish. Then address translation freelancing, marketplaces and Upwork work acquisition.

Gemini Notebook NotebookLM analyser et exploiter des documents avec l’IA

Test NotebookLM interface, prepare and organize PDF/document/link sources into a notebook, refine targeted queries and inspect responses, then produce an activity-specific synthesis with critical reliability checks.

People Analytics et IA

Map HR data, diagnose a flawed dataset and governance roles, select a recruitment/retention/skills case, interpret predictive results and bias, then build a supplied-data dashboard mockup and present recommendations as an HR steering committee.

Microsoft Power Automate & AI: Business Automation

• Map process requirements, triggers, actions, dependencies and outputs
• Ask GPT to propose a flow, review it, then build and test it. Examples cover email/SharePoint work, supplier-satisfaction scoring, payment-certificate approvals and invoice extraction.

AI for Course Design

Four modules introduce AI in course design, demonstrate learning materials, learner feedback and media, then consider access, agency, copyright, privacy and integrity. Practice/reflection and a graded reflection are listed. Large panel videos and readings distinguish this from a short tool lab.

Using Generative AI for Learning Design Activities

• Four modules use an applied learning-design case to draft objectives, assessments, scripts and accessible artifacts
• Refine goal alignment and learner personas
• Then complete a sixty-minute workbook activity. Listed graded checks are knowledge/honor-code quizzes. Michigan clock-hour eligibility requires all three courses, not this course alone.