Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Master Microsoft Office 365 and Power Platform from the Microsoft Institute

Improve your productivity and become an expert in Microsoft Office and Power Platform. Master Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and become a leader in your field.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Power Apps
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Presentations
  • Data Analysis
  • Power BI
  • Microsoft Power Platform
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Power Automate/Flow

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Office manager
  • Data Analyst
  • Business Application Developer
  • Presentation designer
  • Project Manager
  • Automation expert
  • Civil key
  • Digital Content Manager

Internship – 8-part course series

Microsoft Office 365 and Power Platform plan

The Microsoft Office 365 and Power Platform program offers comprehensive training in core Microsoft applications, designed to improve your productivity and efficiency in any professional environment. The program focuses on 4 key areas, each designed to equip you with practical skills that will help you excel in your workplace.

Fields of study
  • Microsoft Word: Learn the basic principles and advanced functions for creating high-quality, professional documents.
  • Microsoft Excel: Develop skills to organize, analyze, and present data effectively.
  • Microsoft PowerPoint: Learn how to create dynamic presentations with advanced content and media elements.
  • Microsoft Power Platform: Learn how to use no-code and low-code tools to build custom business applications, workflow automation, intelligent chatbots, and data analytics.

Microsoft Power Platform will give you the knowledge and skills needed to become citizen developers with limited IT and technology skills.

Practical experience

During the program, you will gain hands-on experience in real-world case studies, ensuring that you can apply what you learn directly to your professional tasks. Upon completion of the Microsoft Office 365 and Power Platform program, you will have a broad skill set, ready to tackle complex projects and improve your work efficiency with confidence.

Hands-on Learning Project

You will work on a variety of projects that simulate real-life situations, such as:

  • Create professional reports and letters in Word
  • Analyze data and create visualizations in Excel
  • Design presentations in PowerPoint
  • Build simple apps, dashboards, and chatbots using Power Platform components like Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Work smart with Microsoft Word

  • Course 1 • 30 hours • 4.7 (1,586 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • How to create and save professional reports, multi-column newsletters, resumes, and business correspondence.
  • How to manage documents and collaborate on documents.
  • How to add and format text and graphics.
  • How to manage tables and lists.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Data Platform
  • Category: Microsoft Power Platform
  • Category: Microsoft Database

Work smart with Microsoft Excel

  • Course 2 • 20 hours • 4.7 (2,309 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • How to create a spreadsheet, work with formulas and functions, make your sheets look professional, and print a sheet.
  • How to manage sheets, workbooks, tables, table data, data cells and ranges, and charts.
  • How to perform operations using formulas and functions.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Documents
  • Category: Microsoft Word

Work smart with Microsoft PowerPoint

  • Course 3 • 19 hours • 4.7 (746 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • How to create, save, and present a basic presentation; apply the basics of design; and add presentation media.
  • How to manage slides and presentations.
  • How to apply transitions and animations.
  • How to stream components into a presentation.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Microsoft Excel
  • Category: Chart
  • Category: Worksheet

Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot

  • Course 4 • 4 hours • 4.5 (52 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • What if you could improve your efficiency by 40%, upgrade your creativity by 70%, and save significant time on your daily tasks? ‘Introduction to O365 Copilot,’ a beginner-level course led by Rob Rubin, PhD, can make that a reality for you.
  • Over 1.5 hours, you will unlock the potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot to revolutionize your work efficiency across the entire Microsoft 365 Suite.
  • This course is your ticket to increasing productivity, transforming data management, and optimizing business processes through the powers of artificial intelligence.
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
  • Describe the basics of 365 Copilot.
  • Access and navigate the 365 Copilot platform efficiently.
  • Integrate 365 Copilot seamlessly with Microsoft 365 Suite.
  • Demonstrate application engineering to leverage essential features of 365 Copilot.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Virtual Agents
  • Category: Data visualization
  • Category: Virtual Agents
  • Category: BI

Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform

  • Course 5 • 3 hours • 4.7 (37 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Descriptions of Microsoft Power Platform components, business value for customers, and technology confidence.
  • Define the basic concepts of databases and how to connect and design data connections to Microsoft Power Platform applications.
  • Discover how Power Apps lets you create apps tailored to your business needs, improving productivity and efficiency.
  • Learn about the value and capabilities of Power Apps and how organizations are leveraging this technology to build simple apps for their business.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Effective Navigation and Designation
  • Category: Basic Understanding of Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Category: Request Engineering for Copilot
  • Category: Integration with Microsoft 365 Suite

Using the Power Platform for customized and automated solutions

  • Course 6 • 9 hours • 3.6 (16 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Build and customize dynamic applications to meet specific business challenges.
  • Design model-driven applications using component-based architecture.
  • Configure and secure PowerApps portals for external users.
  • Develop and implement automated workflows and applications using Microsoft Power Automate.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Category: Presentation

Power BI and virtual agents

  • Course 7 • 8 hours

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Evaluate the business value of Power BI and leverage it to create and share interactive reports and dashboards.
  • Apply security measures within the boundaries of Power BI to ensure data security.
  • Explain the value and capabilities of virtual agents for chat solutions.
  • Design and implement chatbots without code using Power Virtual Agents.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Power Apps Portals
  • Category: Microsoft Power Automate/Flow

PL-900 Practice Exam

  • Course 8 • 3 hours

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Summarize the key topics and information learned in the Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals specialization.
  • Understand the structure and experience of the test: PL-900 in Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals.
  • How to pass the PL-900 exam: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Power BI
  • Category: Microsoft Power Platform