This course teaches how to build agents that extend Microsoft 365 Copilot using Copilot Studio. Students will learn to add custom knowledge, actions, and publish agents to enhance Copilot’s capabilities for improved productivity.

Learning Outcomes

• Evaluate whether a declarative agent is appropriate to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot for your scenario.
• Describe how the components of a declarative agent work together to create agents that run on Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Design a declarative agent to solve a business problem.
• Implement a declarative agent with custom knowledge.
• Publish and use a declarative agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot to validate the results.
• Describe actions in Copilot Studio.
• Identify the types of actions that can extend a declarative agent in Copilot Studio.
• Describe scenarios for adding actions to an agent.
• Describe technical considerations for configuring actions in Copilot Studio.
• Configure a prompt action in Copilot Studio.
• Test a prompt in Copilot Studio.
• Add a prompt action to a declarative agent in Copilot Studio.
• Create a new connector action.
• Configure a connector action.
• Add a connector action to a declarative agent.
• Test a connector action.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with Microsoft 365 Copilot and options for extending Microsoft 365 Copilot.