Project: Update the Microsoft Copilot Agent Academy Recruit Course for delivery as a 1-day hands-on workshop, reflecting the redesigned Copilot Studio UI (2025/2026).
Delivery target: 3 weeks from June 2026 (see facilitator guide).
Live site: https://ulrikkerocks.github.io/BOOST/
Microsoft significantly redesigned Copilot Studio in late 2025. The new UI introduces a central Overview page as the primary authoring surface, a new Workflows experience (alongside Agent Flows), natural-language agent creation, and updated navigation throughout. Roughly half the original course's screenshots and step-by-step instructions referenced the old UI.
This repo contains a fully rewritten version of the Recruit course (Modules 00–13) that reflects the current experience, published as a GitHub Pages site, plus the supporting research and workshop-delivery materials.
| Area | Status |
|---|---|
| Module content (00–13) | ✅ Written — all 14 modules rewritten for the new UI (~6,100 lines) |
| Research & gap analysis | ✅ Done — see research/change-log.md |
| Facilitator guide | ✅ Done — docs/facilitator-guide.md |
| Participant reference card | ✅ Done — docs/participant-reference-card.md |
| GitHub Pages site | ✅ Live — Jekyll (Minima dark) + custom "Tech Forward" theme |
| Screenshots | 🔴 Not captured — 193 [SCREENSHOT: …] placeholders across the modules. See docs/screenshot-capture-plan.md |
| Full end-to-end delivery rehearsal | ⬜ Pending |
BOOST/
├── README.md # This file
├── research/ # Analysis behind the rewrite
│ ├── old-course-notes.md # Notes from the original course modules
│ ├── new-ui-notes.md # New Copilot Studio UI documentation
│ └── change-log.md # Per-module gap analysis + priority order
├── docs/ # The published GitHub Pages site (source)
│ ├── _config.yml # Jekyll config (Minima dark, baseurl /BOOST)
│ ├── README.md # Course landing page
│ ├── facilitator-guide.md # Delivery notes, timing, pitfalls
│ ├── participant-reference-card.md
│ ├── screenshot-audit-checklist.md
│ ├── screenshot-capture-plan.md # Worklist for the 193 pending screenshots
│ ├── assets/main.scss # "Tech Forward" custom theme
│ ├── modules/00-course-setup … 13-securing-recruit-badge/ # 14 module READMEs
│ ├── 02-copilot-studio-fundamentals/overview-page-orientation.md # supplemental
│ └── 09-add-an-agent-flow/workflows-callout.md # supplemental
└── assets/
└── presentation/ # Conference decks (EPPC26 / Color Cloud 2026) + extracted images
Note: GitHub Pages builds from the
docs/folder on thewip/rig/recruit-course-updatebranch (legacy Jekyll build). There is noGemfileor Actions workflow — the site relies on GitHub's built-ingithub-pagesgem, so only Pages-whitelisted plugins are available.
A progressive, hands-on build of the Contoso Helpdesk Agent — an IT helpdesk assistant — across 14 modules. Full module list, schedule, and learning path are in the course landing page.
| Phase | Modules | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | 00–02 | Environment setup, agent concepts, Copilot Studio interface |
| Getting started | 03–05 | Declarative agents, solutions (ALM), pre-built templates |
| Build your agent | 06–09 | Custom agent, topics & triggers, Adaptive Cards, Agent Flows |
| Advanced | 10–11 | Event triggers (autonomous), publishing to Teams |
| Production | 12–13 | Licensing & cost, badge / wrap-up |
Format: 1 full day (~8 hours hands-on), or self-paced over 1–2 weeks. Audience: Makers, IT Pros, Power Platform enthusiasts. Environment: Each participant needs their own M365 tenant + Copilot Studio trial.
The new mental model, in brief:
- Old: Agent editor with tabs/sections in a left sidebar (Topics, Actions, Settings…).
- New (2025/2026): A single Overview page showing all components at once — Details, Instructions, Knowledge, Tools, Triggers, Agents, Topics, Suggested Prompts — with an always-visible Test pane and a top-right Publish button.
Other notable changes the course addresses: natural-language agent creation, new AI model selection (GPT-4.1 default; GPT-5, Claude, Mistral options), the new Workflows experience (vs. Agent Flows), GA multi-agent orchestration, and updated licensing.
For the full per-module breakdown of what changed and what needed updating, see research/change-log.md.
Edit course content: modify the module README.md files under docs/modules/. Markdown renders directly on the Pages site.
Preview the site: push to wip/rig/recruit-course-update; GitHub Pages rebuilds from docs/ (~60–90s). Check build status with:
gh api repos/ulrikkerocks/BOOST/pages/builds/latestTheme changes: edit docs/assets/main.scss (it @imports the Minima theme, then overrides).
- Capture the 193 screenshots — biggest remaining task. Plan in docs/screenshot-capture-plan.md.
- Replace each
[SCREENSHOT: …]placeholder with the captured image. - Create the 3 conceptual diagrams in Module 01 (architecture / sequence / multi-agent).
- Run a full end-to-end delivery rehearsal against a live tenant.
- Final screenshot audit against the current UI (checklist).
| Resource | URL |
|---|---|
| Official course site | https://microsoft.github.io/agent-academy/recruit/ |
| GitHub source repo | https://github.com/microsoft/agent-academy |
| Copilot Studio docs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/ |
| What's New | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/whats-new |
| Copilot Studio Blog | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/blog/copilot-studio/ |
License: MIT. Original course © Microsoft; this is an independent modernization for workshop delivery.