Course Specifications

Course Number:

091180

Course Length:

0.5 day

Course Description

Overview:

Business users have found many ways to take advantage of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini™, and Claude. These tools can help you get work done faster and more efficiently. This includes the authoring of content within word processing tools like Microsoft® Word, Google Docs™, and LibreOffice® Writer or desktop publishing tools such as Adobe® InDesign®, Microsoft Publisher®, and QuarkXPress. GenAI tools can help you brainstorm ideas to inspire your writing and can help you create and revise text and image content for a wide range of writing and documentation projects. And all these tasks can be accomplished using free online AI tools.

Note to instructors: Because of the open-ended nature of Generative AI, you can potentially extend the course presentation to a full day, by allowing learners more time to experiment during the course activities, and by performing the optional Mastery Builders. See the timing and delivery suggestions in the Instructor Edition of the courseware manual. This course can also be paired with the Getting the Most from Your Presentations with GenAI course from Logical Operations to create a full-day training experience.

Course Objectives:

In this course, you will use generative AI tools to help you develop text and images that you can use in your word processor or desktop publishing application. You will:

• Select and use generative AI tools to generate ideas for your written documentation.
• Use generative AI tools to develop text content for your word-processing documents.
• Use generative AI tools to produce images and design ideas you can use in your documents.

Target Student:

This course is designed for professionals in a variety of roles who currently create and edit documents to accomplish business tasks, and who want to enhance their use of word processing and desktop publishing applications by leveraging freely available generative AI tools.

Course Prerequisites:

To ensure your success in this course, you should be able to perform basic word processing and desktop publishing tasks using software such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice Writer. You can obtain this level of skills and knowledge by taking the Microsoft® Office Word for Office 365™ (Desktop or Online): Part 1 course from Logical Operations.

Course-Specific Technical Requirements

For this course, every participant (students and instructor) will require a Windows computer with:

• An Internet connection.
• A recent version of the Microsoft Word desktop application.
• Microsoft Edge web browser.

NOTE: Other web browsers can be used additionally, but Edge is specifically required for certain activities.

Account Requirements:

Each student and the instructor will require access to at least two, but preferably four, free generative AI tools. The tools used when writing this course were Copilot, Gemini™, and ChatGPT and Claude. See the Instructor Edition of the courseware manual for more specific requirements and suggested account setup procedures.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Using AI for Brainstorming and Idea Generation

Topic A: Select and Use Generative AI Tools

Topic B: Use Generative AI for Brainstorming

Lesson 2: Using AI to Produce Written Text

Topic A: Use AI to Generate Text

Topic B: Use AI to Revise Existing Text Content

Lesson 3: Using AI to Produce Images

Topic A: Generate New Images

Topic B: Import Generated Images into Word