AI Tools Foundations: Mastering CoPilot, ChatGPT & Sora

Explore the three ChatGPT upgrade plans—free, plus, and pro—and examine features like file uploads, image generation, and Sora video tools using the plus plan for desktop access.

Learn to craft an unstructured prompt with the latest ChatGPT model, iterating and asking for a step-by-step outline, while using the canvas to compare outputs.

Learn to use ChatGPT’s canvas edit panel to adjust length, reading level, and final polish, add emojis, and copy the revised content for testing in a word processor.

Explore how to edit final output in ChatGPT and use the canvas WYSIWYG editor to style passages, bold or italicize text, adjust font size, and explain phrases.

Search your entire ChatGPT account with the magnifying glass in the top-left sidebar to locate chats by keywords, specific text, or a url.

Explore how to create and manage ChatGPT projects: set up a new project, organize chats and files, attach custom instructions, assign models, and use images and writing tools.

Explore voice mode in ChatGPT on a free account, script engaging whiteboard tutorials, use a high-quality whiteboard tool with legible handwriting and color coding, and rehearse a smooth, professional delivery.

Access the writing canvas in ChatGPT from the tools area, edit content inside the canvas, and use its tools to attach files, search the web, and copy results.

Explore how to lengthen a document in canvas using the adjust the link tool, slide the lever, and let ChatGPT rewrite the text in real time, showing a 75% expansion.

Master how ChatGPT analyzes your document, suggests edits via the editing pencil, and applies changes in real time, with a left-side record of all actions.

Adjust your document's reading level in real time with the reading level tool from the left side menu, using undo, change tracking, and easy export to word processing software.

Discover how to use canvas final polish and emoji features to enrich your draft in real time with ChatGPT, then copy and paste into your word processor with formatting control.

Learn how ChatGPT vision analyzes uploaded images, describes on-screen elements such as clickable buttons, links, and areas, and enables multimodal input in real time.

Discover how ChatGPT's vision analyzes uploaded images, identifies clickable elements like buttons and links, and delivers real-time explanations using multimodal input.

Discover how ChatGPT becomes a search engine by enabling web search, comparing results with traditional engines, and refining queries using plain language with current sources and citations.

Discover how to install the official ChatGPT browser extension from OpenAI on Microsoft Edge or Chrome, verify the developer, and avoid other company extensions.

Evaluate the optional browser extension to set ChatGPT as your default search engine, weigh the data breach risk, and note browser differences when using ChatGPT in the address bar.

Use ChatGPT as a local search tool with voice-driven, real-time directions. Explore congestion-free routes, including the George Washington Bridge to Liberty State Park and ferries to the Statue of Liberty.

Explore prompt engineering for advanced reasoning models, bypass step-by-step prompts, and compare the oh one reasoning model with the most advanced ChatGPT model for better outputs.

Explore using the ChatGPT desktop application, compare it with the web version, and learn how to take screenshots, upload images, and access the keystroke menu with keyboard shortcuts.

Discover how ChatGPT enables real-time audio interaction on mobile and desktop, with read-aloud and copy-paste tools, and explore GPT extensions for tasks like mind maps and video tutorials.

Explore Meta AI, an open source chatbot extension of Facebook, and run an unstructured prompt to observe its rationale, logic, and generated content.

Learn to remix posts with Meta's editing tools, create blog post variations, apply presets, and save your reformatting results for future use.

Output the edited document by copying to clipboard and pasting into a word document, choosing to keep, merge, or apply new formatting with meta ai.

Explore experimental meta AI demos that let you create an audio story with AI generated voices using the audio box maker, with features varying over time.

Explore Perplexity II in its free version, toggle off the pro features, craft an unstructured prompt, run it to generate text, and assess word count and automatic rewriting tools.

Explore how editing and rewriting tools in perplexity empower you to rewrite documents, choose models like GPT-4 or sonar, regenerate drafts, and expand content with related questions.

Learn how to output chatbot content by copying and pasting, and manage Perplexity sources by viewing, removing, and regenerating content to control final output.

Discover how perplexity supports image search and generation, document uploads, and academic-focused queries to tailor content and enhance research workflows.

Explore how to use Google Gemini's flash version to generate step-by-step instructions and article content, manage word counts, and use post tools to refine output.

Explore editing and revision tools in Gemini that generate multiple drafts, allow selective revision, and adjust content length and tone without prompts, enhancing control over final outputs.

Explore output options with Google tools and Gemini, including share and export, drafting in Gmail, exporting to Google Docs, saving to Google Drive, and creating public links.

Discover audio interaction with Google searches and voice input, as seven strategies for creating effective video tutorials show how listening and speaking queries via microphone enhance education and audience resonance.

Explore how to use Claude's professional model for complex writing tasks, generate content, and export as markdown, then edit it in Word or Google Docs with Claude artifacts.

Learn how to output Claude content through copy and paste, downloading as markdown, and publishing with public or private links, enabling others to view and remix.

Enable artifacts in cloud to generate code snippets, text documents, and website designs with Claude, and view step-by-step thought processes on the left alongside final creations on the right.

Explore Microsoft 365 AI tools for content creation, using Clipchamp’s AI video editing and text-to-speech features, including free vs premium plans and upgrade pricing.

Explore Clipchamp's auto compose feature to quickly create a video by uploading media, selecting a style, choosing landscape or full length, adding music, and exporting or editing in the timeline.

Master text-to-speech in Microsoft Clipchamp by selecting from multiple voices to read your text and add it to your video. Create engaging video tutorials that entertain and inform viewers.

Explore Clipchamp’s screen share and camera features to place elements in your video, then use auto captions and transcribe media to generate downloadable caption files and transcripts.

Enable Clipchamp speaker coach during recording, review speech to receive improvement hints, and refine your delivery before presenting.

Use Microsoft speaker coach in PowerPoint to rehearse with coach in real time, using a microphone to improve speaking skills; learn Copilot Pro for daily task overviews.

Explore using Microsoft Designer's ai tools in Microsoft 365 to create promotional materials by writing prompts, adding media from device or mobile, and generating iterative designs.

Learn how to generate promotional images with Microsoft Designer, write prompts, generate images, select and reuse them, set landscape size, and customize text and design elements for marketing materials.

Explore Microsoft Designer's preview terms of use, confirming personal use only and the potential shift to paid business use as the service evolves.

learn to draft emails in Outlook with Copilot, using draft with Copilot, generate drafts, edit, and regenerate to tailor messages.

Experience a live AI editor demo by proofreading an existing document with editor suggestions from the right side panel, covering clarity, conciseness, formality, and vocabulary.

Open an audio transcript in Word, use Copilot to rewrite it for clarity, replace the first page with the rewritten text, and explore the limits of Copilot.

Explore Microsoft Create's template-based ai tools for Clipchamp, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Forms, and Designer, with personal non-commercial use, potential business rollout, and free in preview mode.

Navigate Sora’s feature tab to view videos and prompts, remix clips with credits, adjust prompts and orientation, storyboard edits, blend library elements, and sketch a snow globe city from scratch.

Describe how to build a video in Sora from a single prompt, manage credits, test variations, and escalate resolution and looping to deliver a final, downloadable looping video.

Create an image with ChatGPT, upload it to Sora, and generate a video with two variations at a credit cost, then select and add it to your collection.

Create and remix video scenes in Sora, manage credits and queue progress, adjust variations, center and zoom footage, and assemble a storyboard to produce your final video.

Upload documents to one or several chat bots to identify each document's unique qualities, using the same analysis prompt in ChatGPT, then build a meta analysis in Notebook LM.

Celebrate finishing the course and apply your new ai tools skills to work and projects; share your work in the gallery and leave a review to help others grow.