- Classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators learn to use AI in their roles supporting students, teachers, and school systems.
Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:
- Explain what AI can and can't do using clear, tool-focused language that avoids treating AI like a person.
- Analyze the difference between AI-generated outputs and human judgment in common educator scenarios.
- Categorize tasks into three buckets: appropriate for AI support, appropriate with human oversight, or not appropriate for AI use.
- Plan integrity norms, including verification, privacy, and transparency, when AI is involved in educator work.
- Design simple explanations of AI use that keep responsibility visible for students, colleagues, and families.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
- Educator - Analyst
- Educator - Designer
- Educator - Learner
- Leaders - Equity and Citizenship Advocate
- Leaders - Visionary Planner UNESCO Standards for Educators:
- Application of digital skills
- Curriculum and assessment
- Organization and Administration
- Pedagogy
- Teacher professional learning
- Understanding ICT in education
- This module is designed to introduce educators to the powerful AI tools that Microsoft offers to educators and learners for free.
Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:
- Use AI tools to streamline workflows and focus more on teaching
- Use AI tools to provide detailed feedback and personalized learning experiences
- Create engaging lesson plans and interactive lessons with the help of AI tools
- Use AI tools to improve coding skills
- Use AI tools to develop learners' future-ready skills
ISTE Standards for Educators:
Educator - Designer
Educator - Facilitator
Leaders - Systems Designer
UNESCO Standards for Educators:
- Understanding ICT in Education
UNESCO AI Competency Framework:
A human-centered mindset
Ethics of AI
AI foundations and applications
AI pedagogy
AI for professional development
- Educators learn to use AI responsibly by building accurate mental models and a simple reflection routine.
Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:
- Document an AI-supported decision using a short, repeatable decision log.
- Analyze outcomes over time and identify one pattern that suggests an adjustment.
- Select one adjustment that increases learning quality, integrity, privacy, or trust.
- Design a short explanation that communicates what the system did and what the educator decided.
- Design simple explanations of AI use that keep responsibility visible for students, colleagues, and families.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
- Educator - Leader
- Educator - Learner
- Educator - Collaborator
- Educator - Designer
- Educator - Facilitator
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
UNESCO Standards for Educators:
- Application of digital skills
- Pedagogy
- Teacher professional learning
UNESCO AI Competency Framework:
- AI foundations and applications
- AI pedagogy
- AI for professional development
- Build a practical, educator-ready approach to using AI as a creative partner without outsourcing professional judgment.
Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:
- Generate multiple ideas with AI for a clearly defined purpose.
- Apply explicit criteria to curate AI-generated ideas.
- Explain the role of human judgment in AI-supported creative work.
- Revise prompts to improve relevance, usefulness, and alignment of AI outputs.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
Educator - Analyst
Educator - Collaborator
Educator - Designer
Educator - Facilitator
Educator - Leader
Educator - Learner
Leaders - Connected Learner
Leaders - Empowering Leader
Leaders - Equity and Citizenship Advocate
Leaders - Systems Designer
Leaders - Visionary Planner
UNESCO Standards for Educators:
- Application of digital skills
- Curriculum and assessment
- Organization and Administration
- Pedagogy
- Teacher professional learning
- Understanding ICT in education
UNESCO AI Competency Framework:
- AI foundations and applications
- Teach in Microsoft 365 Copilot App centralizes AI-powered tools to help educators plan instruction, assess learning, and manage class artifacts in Microsoft 365.
Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:
- Identify where Teach appears across Microsoft 365 Copilot on the web, computer, and mobile.
- Generate lesson plans aligned to selected standards and grade levels.
- Create quizzes in Microsoft Forms and configure settings for collection and accessibility.
- Build rubrics with preset or custom scales and criteria aligned to standards.
- Produce flashcards in multiple formats with hints that prompt deeper thinking.
- Explain how to save, share, and manage content created in Teach within OneDrive and Microsoft class teams.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
- Educator - Designer
- Educator - Learner
UNESCO Standards for Educators:
- Curriculum and assessment
UNESCO AI Competency Framework:
- AI pedagogy
- Learn how AI generates text, why outputs sound confident but miss key context, and how clear prompts use purpose, audience, constraints, and criteria.
Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:
- Classify common educator tasks based on whether AI support is appropriate, appropriate with oversight, or not appropriate.
- Identify what must remain a human responsibility for a task, including final decisions, context, and relationships.
- Select practical oversight checkpoints that match the risk level of a task.
- Draft clear privacy-minded defaults for what data can and cannot be shared with AI tools.
- Create an AI Use rubric for classroom and staff contexts that makes expectations visible.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
- Educator - Analyst
- Educator - Collaborator
- Educator - Designer
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Leader
- Educator - Learner
- Leaders - Connected learner
- Leaders - Empowering leader
- Leaders - Equity and citizenship advocate
- Leaders - Systems designer
- Leaders - Visionary planner
UNESCO Standards for Educators:
- Application of digital skills
- Curriculum and assessment
- Organization and administration
- Pedagogy
- Teacher professional learning\
- Understanding ICT in education
UNESCO AI Competency Framework:
- A human-centered mindset
- AI foundations and applications
- AI pedagogy
- Educators leverage Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat with practical strategies, prompt design tips, and responsible AI practices.
Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:
- Summarize the basic uses of Copilot Chat and how it can help educators
- Use Copilot Chat and use the basic functionality provided in all its features
- Design prompts that support teaching and learning
- Judge the responses produced by Copilot Chat for overall quality and credibility
ISTE Standards for Educators:
Educator - Designer
Educator - Learner
UNESCO Standards for Educators:
Application of Digital skills
Organization and Administration
Understanding ICT in Education
UNESCO AI Competency Framework:
A human-centered mindset
Ethics of AI
AI foundations and applications
AI pedagogy
AI for professional development
