Cowork is metered and powerful. Most users will get the licence, work out a few prompts, and start blowing through Copilot Credits. Get Copilot Cowork Certified before you turn them loose. The course shows them what they've been given, what it can actually do, and how to use it properly. Self-paced, $147 USD per user before doors open on 1 July. $197 after that.
Cowork is a delegation engine billed by the task. A user who treats it like Chat will waste credits, miss most of what it can do, and lean on plugins and skills that nobody checked. None of this is malicious. It's what happens when you hand someone the keys to a powerful tool without telling them what they're driving.
One loose user can quietly burn $1,000 to $3,000 of Copilot Credits a year. Broad prompts, the most expensive model on every task, scheduled jobs no one needed. Small habits, big bill.
Cowork is built to run multi-step work across Microsoft 365. Users who treat it like Chat ask it three questions, get average answers, and quietly give up. The value is in the jobs they never thought to delegate.
Microsoft says it plainly: custom skills aren't validated. Users can write their own, up to fifty each, stored in OneDrive. Plugins come in from the App Store. Without a basic understanding of what skills do, your team installs them by guess.
If you're handing someone the keys to a powerful, metered agent, they should know what they're driving. The course covers these five, in order, with the demos and decisions baked in.
Cowork is a delegation engine that runs multi-step work across Microsoft 365. Different category to Chat. Different rules. Different bill.
What Cowork access actually means. The permissions it inherits. The actions it can take. The line between asking and approving.
The models on offer, the built-in skills, the scheduling, the plugins. The moving parts they'll be choosing between every time they run something.
The work Cowork is actually good at. So they stop using it for things Chat would handle and start using it for the jobs only it can.
Cost-aware prompting. Model choice. Approval and steering. Knowing when to stop a task. The driving lesson, with the cheap-vs-expensive decisions in front of them.
Built for a knowledge worker who has Microsoft 365 Copilot and Chat experience, but hasn't used an agent before. Plain English, real demos, the cost decision shown on screen. Watch them in order or jump to the one you need.
What changed at GA. Why the cost model is different.
Tokens, model, schedule, skills. The four levers that move the bill.
How to size a task before you run it.
Scoped requests beat broad ones. Always.
When the cheap model is the right answer.
Approve, steer, stop. The user is the driver.
How to use the schedule, and what not to put on it.
What's allowed in, what isn't, who decides.
Handling rules don't change because a model is doing the work.
When the bill looks wrong, what to check first.
At the end of the course, a short knowledge check confirms the key ideas stuck. Pass it and we issue a Copilot Cowork Certified User badge plus a certificate PDF. Anyone can verify it on a public page. Use it however helps your organisation: a record of who's been through it, a marker on a Cowork rollout plan, or something a user can put on their LinkedIn.
The badge says one thing. This person took the time to learn Cowork properly. Daniel's course, Daniel's standard.
From a single seat to a whole-team rollout. Same course, same badge, three ways to get there.
Ten short modules. A short knowledge check at the end. A verifiable badge and a certificate PDF. Twelve-month validity.
Early bird. Rises to $197 USD on 1 July when doors open. Lock in your seat now.
Same course, same badge, same standard. Bulk-buy the seats and onboard your team properly with Daniel on a short call.
Volume discount. 20%+ off per seat. The bigger the team, the deeper the discount. We apply it on the call.
A focused workshop delivered to your team, in your office, by Daniel. Custom-shaped to your tenant, your tooling, and the actual work your team does in Cowork.
Scoped on a 15-minute discovery call. Quote within 48 hours. One day onsite plus a half-day virtual follow-up, run by Daniel personally.
Cowork is the most capable thing Microsoft has shipped in years. Most of the value is in the jobs users never think to delegate, and most of the waste is in the few they do without knowing what they're driving. This course is the missing driving lesson.
Copilot Chat is a flat per-seat cost. Cowork is metered, billed by the task. They are different products with different rules and different failure modes. This course is about Cowork: what it actually is, what it can do, and how a user works with it without burning through credits.
You can. The reason most teams don't is that putting the course together takes more time than they have. Daniel's been consulting, enabling and implementing across Microsoft 365 for twenty years, and runs Cowork engagements with clients directly. This course is that work, distilled, self-paced, ready to send to a user on day one.
Daniel Anderson. Microsoft MVP, twenty-plus years in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The course is built from the same material he uses with clients in private Cowork sessions, with the demos and the decisions baked in.
We update the course when Microsoft ships substantive changes to Cowork. The durable parts of the course, the cost model and the safe-driving practices, aren't going anywhere. The badge runs twelve months.
Official Microsoft sources only. Microsoft 365 Blog for the GA announcement on 16 June 2026, the Copilot Credits billing article on Microsoft Learn, and the Cowork pages on Learn for mechanics and skills behaviour. Where the docs are mid-transition we say so and confirm in-tenant before teaching on it.
Cowork is powerful. Most users will work out a few prompts and stop. The ones who take this course leave knowing what they've been given, what it can actually do, and how to use it without burning the budget. Lock in the $147 USD early bird before 1 July. After that, $197.
Or talk to Daniel directly: hello@danielanderson.io
