Microsoft Copilot training · Perth & WA · AWST
Microsoft Copilot Training in Perth for WA Teams
Short answer: live, hands-on sessions that show your Perth staff what their Copilot licence can do in Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and when a Copilot Studio agent is worth building. Run live online on AWST, on your own de-identified work.
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Perth and WA
Why Copilot training in Perth needs a WA lens
Perth runs on a different clock and a different economy from the east coast. Western Australia keeps AWST (UTC+8) all year, with no daylight saving, so a 9 am session in Sydney is 7 am here for half the year and 6 am for the other half. Generic Copilot webinars timed for Sydney or Melbourne rarely fit a Perth day, and they almost never fit a roster that splits people between a St Georges Terrace office and a Pilbara or Goldfields site.
The work is different too. Perth is home to the head offices of large resources and energy companies and a deep mining equipment, technology and services (METS) sector. The State public sector, the universities (UWA, Curtin, Murdoch and Edith Cowan among them) and WA’s health service providers employ thousands more, and the CBD carries the legal, engineering, accounting and consulting firms that serve them. Most of these organisations already live inside Microsoft 365: Outlook for the inbox, Teams for meetings and site calls, SharePoint for procedures and contracts, Excel for almost everything else.
That is why Copilot is often the first AI tool a Perth organisation switches on. It is also why the first few months can disappoint. People are given a licence, try a few prompts, get a generic answer and go back to old habits. The gap is rarely the tool; it is knowing which tasks suit Copilot, how to point it at the right file or meeting, and how to check what it produces before it goes to a client, a regulator or a site supervisor.
What this page covers
- What Copilot training covers today, including the current licence names (checked October 2026).
- Who in Perth gets the most from it, by industry and by role.
- A worked example and three shorter ones from typical WA workplaces.
- A sample agenda, the delivery formats and how an engagement runs.
- The privacy points that matter in Australia, in general terms.
- Answers to the questions Perth teams ask most often.
If you are still comparing providers, our list of Microsoft Copilot trainers across Australia covers the classroom and online options in each capital, including Perth.
The course
What Copilot training covers in 2026
Microsoft has renamed and repackaged Copilot several times, so the first job in any session is to make sure everyone knows which Copilot they actually have. The points below were checked against Microsoft Learn in October 2026; licence terms change, so confirm the details with your Microsoft licensing partner before you buy.
Copilot Chat and the paid Microsoft 365 Copilot licence
| Microsoft Copilot Chat | Microsoft 365 Copilot licence | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Included with eligible Microsoft 365 work accounts | Paid add-on, sold as Microsoft Copilot Business (up to 300 users) or for enterprise plans, and included in Microsoft 365 E7 |
| Grounding | Mainly the web, plus files you upload or paste; in Outlook it can also use your inbox, calendar and meetings | Reasons across the email, meetings, chats, files and sites you already have permission to open |
| In Word, Excel, PowerPoint | Depends on the label your tenant shows (see below) | Full experience with priority access |
| Agents | Can use agents your organisation provides | Access to advanced agents, including Copilot Cowork where enabled |
| Data protection | Enterprise data protection for work accounts | Enterprise data protection, plus existing Microsoft 365 permissions and labels |
Inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft now shows a label so people can tell what they have: Copilot Chat (Basic), Microsoft 365 Copilot (Basic) or Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium). We check which labels your groups see before the session, because the exercises differ. Microsoft’s newer documents sometimes call the licensed experience simply “Microsoft Copilot”; it is the same product.
Copilot in the apps your Perth staff use every day
- Outlook: summarise threads, draft and refine replies, and ask questions across recent email and meetings.
- Teams: catch up on a meeting you missed, ask what was decided and who owns each action, and summarise a busy channel.
- Excel: ask questions of a table, get formula and chart suggestions, and find outliers, then verify against the source.
- Word: draft from existing files, rewrite for a different reader and summarise long documents.
- PowerPoint: build a deck from a document, add speaker notes and summarise a deck someone sent you.
Agents: Copilot Studio and Copilot Cowork
Copilot Studio is Microsoft’s low-code studio for building agents and automated workflows, connecting them to your data and publishing them to Teams, Microsoft Copilot or a website. How an agent is billed depends on how it is built, so we cover licensing and cost controls with the people who will build. Copilot Cowork lets a licensed user describe a multi-step job, such as preparing for a meeting or drafting and sending an update, and it carries out the steps. It needs a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, must be enabled by your administrators with usage-based billing switched on, and asks for approval before it sends an email, posts in Teams or books a meeting. Microsoft notes that Cowork can optionally use Anthropic models as a subprocessor, which is a point for your privacy review.
Credentials, if your people want one
Our sessions are practical and do not include a Microsoft exam. Staff who want a formal credential can follow on with Microsoft’s own learning paths and certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: AI Business Professional (AB-730) for business users or Microsoft 365 Certified: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals (AB-900) for administrators.
Skills
What your Perth staff will be able to do
Clear an inbox in Outlook
Summarise long threads, draft replies in your own tone and pull actions out of email chains with contractors and suppliers.
Run better Teams meetings
Ask Copilot what was decided, who owns what and what was missed, then send a recap people can act on.
Analyse data in Excel
Ask questions of a table, get formula suggestions and spot trends, then check each figure against the source sheet.
Draft from your own files
Build a first draft in Word from procedures, reports and notes in SharePoint or OneDrive, with the sources named.
Turn documents into decks
Create a PowerPoint outline from a Word report, then tighten the story and the numbers before anyone presents it.
Know when to build an agent
Recognise a repeat task worth an agent in Copilot Studio, and when a saved prompt does the job just as well.
Worked example
A Perth METS firm’s weekly site report, rebuilt with Copilot
Picture a Perth engineering services firm with crews on several mine sites. Every Monday a project coordinator in the city office builds the client report by hand: she reads the shift notes emailed from site, scrolls back through the Teams channel, copies hours and equipment downtime from an Excel tracker and writes a paragraph for each site. It takes most of the morning.
In the session she works on last week’s real material, with personal details removed. In Outlook, Copilot summarises the shift-note emails by site. In Teams, she asks it to list the open issues raised in the channel and who owns them. In Excel, Copilot highlights the sites where downtime rose against the previous week. She then asks Copilot in Word to draft the report from those three outputs, using last month’s report as the layout. She checks every number against the tracker, rewrites two sentences that overstated a delay and saves the prompts as a checklist for next Monday.
- Shift-note emails summarised by site
- Open issues from the Teams channel, with owners
- Downtime changes flagged in the Excel tracker
- A draft report in last month’s layout, checked by a person
More examples
Three more ways Perth teams use Copilot
A State agency briefing note
A policy officer in a WA government department needs a two-page briefing note on a draft regulation. In the session she asks Copilot in Word to summarise the consultation paper and the three submissions saved in the team’s SharePoint library, then to draft the note in the agency’s template. She checks each quoted figure against the source, removes a paragraph that guessed at the Minister’s position and records in the file that the first draft was AI-assisted, as her agency’s guidance asks.
A university research office’s grant tracker
A research administrator keeps an Excel workbook of grant applications with deadlines, faculties and status. Copilot in Excel lists applications due in the next 30 days, groups them by faculty and drafts reminder emails in Outlook for each lead researcher. Before anything is sent, she confirms the dates against the funding body’s website, because the tracker, not Copilot, is the source of truth.
A Perth law firm’s matter catch-up
A senior associate returns from leave to forty emails and two missed Teams meetings on a construction dispute. With a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence he asks Copilot to summarise what happened on the matter, list the deadlines mentioned and draft a short note to the partner. He opens each source email before relying on the summary, and keeps privileged advice out of any agent that others can use.
Each example follows the same pattern we teach: give Copilot the right sources, ask for a specific output, check it against the originals and keep a person accountable for what goes out.
Who it helps
Perth teams that get the most from Copilot training
Resources, mining and METS
Site reports, contractor correspondence, procedure updates and tender responses for city and FIFO-rostered teams.
Energy and utilities
Project status packs, permit and approval trackers, stakeholder briefings and meeting actions across long programmes.
WA public sector
Briefing notes, correspondence drafts and policy summaries, built within your agency’s AI policy and the State’s privacy rules.
Healthcare administration
Rosters, committee papers, procurement comparisons and policy updates, with patient information kept out of prompts.
Universities and research offices
Grant administration, course documentation, meeting minutes and survey summaries for academic and professional staff.
Professional services in the CBD
Client emails, file notes, proposal drafts and engagement summaries for legal, accounting, engineering and consulting firms.
Formats
How Copilot training runs for Perth teams
Every format is live and hands-on, scheduled on AWST and built around copies of your own documents, meetings and spreadsheets.
Live online on AWST
Two 3-hour sessions or one full day, timed for Perth mornings so office and site staff can join together. Onsite delivery can be discussed for larger groups.
Role-based tracks
Separate streams for executives, managers, administrators and analysts, so each group practises on the tasks it actually does.
Copilot Studio builder group
A smaller follow-on session for the few people who will design, test and govern agents for everyone else.
Sample agenda
A typical Perth Copilot day, on AWST
This is the agenda we start from for a mixed group of managers and administrators. We adjust it after the scoping call, and we usually split it into two 3-hour mornings so site-based staff can attend.
| Time (AWST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 8:30 | Which Copilot do I have? Copilot Chat versus the paid licence, the labels in your apps, what Copilot can and cannot see. |
| 9:15 | Prompting that works at work. Goal, context, source and format; referencing a file, meeting or person; asking Copilot to show its sources. |
| 10:00 | Outlook and Teams. Thread summaries, reply drafts, meeting recaps and action lists from your own (de-identified) examples. |
| 11:00 | Word and PowerPoint. Drafting from existing files, rewriting for a different reader and turning a report into a deck. |
| 12:00 | Break |
| 12:30 | Excel. Questions of a table, formulas, charts and outliers, with a checking routine for every number. |
| 1:30 | Agents and Cowork. Using the agents your organisation provides, what Copilot Cowork can do where it is enabled, and when to ask for a Copilot Studio agent. |
| 2:15 | Safe use. What not to put in a prompt, sensitivity labels, oversharing in SharePoint and Teams, and checking before sending. |
| 3:00 | Your own task. Each person completes one real task from their week and leaves with a saved prompt sheet. |
For leadership teams we run a shorter briefing on adoption, licence decisions and measurement. For the builder group, a separate session covers Copilot Studio design, testing, publishing and governance.
Privacy
Copilot, the Privacy Act and WA rules, in general terms
Copilot works inside your Microsoft 365 tenant and respects the permissions people already have. That is reassuring, but it also means Copilot can surface anything a person can technically open, including files that were overshared years ago. Good training makes the privacy rules practical. The points below are general information, not legal advice; your privacy officer or lawyer should confirm what applies to you.
- The Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) govern how most private-sector organisations and Australian Government agencies collect, use, disclose and secure personal information. Using Copilot does not change those obligations.
- OAIC guidance. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s Guidance on privacy and the use of commercially available AI products recommends due diligence before adopting a tool, privacy by design, keeping personal and especially sensitive information out of publicly available AI tools, checking outputs for accuracy and telling people when AI is used.
- Automated decisions. Amendments to the Privacy Act add transparency requirements for decisions made with computer programs that use personal information and could significantly affect someone. They apply from 10 December 2026, so organisations planning agents in Copilot Studio should check whether any use is caught.
- WA State agencies now have their own privacy law, the Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing Act 2024 (WA), most of which commenced on 1 July 2026, alongside agency AI policies and guidance from the Office of Digital Government.
- Health information carries extra sensitivity. Healthcare teams should keep patient-identifying details out of prompts unless their organisation has approved the use.
In practice we teach five habits: use your work account, never a personal one; de-identify before you paste; label sensitive files; report overshared sites rather than exploiting them; and check every output before it leaves your desk.
Engagement
How a Perth Copilot engagement works
1. Free call (30 minutes). We ask which licences your people hold, which teams come first and what they spend their week on. If you are not sure whether staff have Copilot Chat only or a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, we show you how to check.
2. Short scoping note. You receive a one-page plan: groups, format, dates on AWST and the tasks each group will practise. Quotes are fixed and in Australian dollars (AUD).
3. Preparation with your sample files. Your project lead shares a few de-identified emails, a meeting recording or transcript, a spreadsheet and a report. We turn them into exercises, so nobody practises on made-up data.
4. Live sessions. Short demonstrations, then people do the task themselves on their own licence while the trainer helps. Every exercise ends with a check: what Copilot got right, what it missed and how to fix the prompt.
5. Follow-up. A prompt sheet for each role, a short list of rules for checking outputs and a review call a few weeks later to see which habits stuck and what to tackle next.
- Your own documents and meetings, de-identified
- Every exercise ends with a checking step
- Fixed quotes in AUD, scheduled on AWST
- A prompt sheet for each role after the session
FAQ
Copilot training in Perth: your questions answered
What is the difference between Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot?
Is Microsoft Copilot training worth it if Copilot Chat is free?
How long does it take to learn Microsoft Copilot?
Do you run Copilot training on Perth time?
Is Copilot training available onsite in Perth?
Can you train FIFO and site-based staff?
Is it safe to use Copilot with confidential company data?
How does the Australian Privacy Act apply to Copilot?
Can WA government agencies use this training?
What is Copilot Studio used for?
What is Copilot Cowork?
Is there a Microsoft Copilot certification?
What do participants need before the session?
How much does Copilot training in Perth cost?
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“Highly recommended! Hands-on and directly useful — from making PPTs and strategic plans to building KRAs.”
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