Prompt-a-thon: Prompting techniques for everyday productivity

Last Updated 06 Oct 2026

Course Overview

A hands-on workshop that turns everyday AI users into confident prompt engineers. You'll learn the GCSE framework (Goal, Context, Source, Expectations), master core techniques such as persona, audience, and structured-output prompting, and extend prompt engineering into agent building with Microsoft Copilot Agent Builder - applying it all across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Outlook, and finishing with a live Prompt-a-thon challenge that turns business information into actionable insight.

Duration - 3 Hours

Level - Advanced

Style - Self paced

Course Type - Project Ready with Labs

Certification - No

Hands on Labs - Yes

Solution Areas - AI Business Solutions (ABS), AI in the flow of human ambition (Frontier)

Featured Product - Copilot Studio

Course Modules

Microsoft Copilot Prompt-a-thon​

This module introduces the GCSE framework (Goal, Context, Source, Expectation) for Cowork alongside core prompting techniques—persona, audience, structured output, and multi-step prompting—and shows how to delegate work by describing an outcome and using agentic prompting with Cowork and the Cowork Cookbook. It also covers the transition from Cowork to agents via Agent Builder, including system/user prompts, instructions, and guidelines, plus prompting best practices and the Copilot Prompt Gallery.

Post-training Skills Assessment

Complete this assessment to validate the skills and knowledge gained through the self paced learning in this course and demonstrate your understanding of the key concepts.

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