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Claude AI & Cowork
The L&D Professional's Complete Guide
From First Login to Real-World Results
A 15-part field guide to using Claude and Cowork in your daily L&D work. Covers every setting, feature, and workflow that matters — from setting up Projects and personalizing Claude for your content style, to running your first Cowork session and 10 real-world L&D scenarios.
What's inside
- What Claude is and why L&D should care
- Choosing your plan and understanding the three models
- Setting up Claude Desktop + Cowork step by step
- Personalizing Claude for your L&D workflow
- Skills: teaching Claude how you work
- Your first Cowork session (step by step)
- 10 real-world L&D scenarios with Claude
- Prompt engineering for L&D
- Connectors, integrations, and what's next
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Get Free Access ↓Microsoft 365 Copilot
The L&D Leader's Complete Guide
Everything an L&D Leader Needs to Know to Get Started
A 37-part guide to using Microsoft 365 Copilot across every app in the ecosystem. Covers Copilot Chat, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Loop, Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Forms, Power BI, Viva, SharePoint architecture, Designer, and more — with real L&D scenarios, prompt libraries, and an IT admin checklist.
What's inside
- What Copilot is and why L&D should care
- The Copilot ecosystem: six products, one name
- Choosing your plan and understanding the models
- Copilot in every M365 app (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Loop)
- The Agent ecosystem and building L&D agents with Copilot Studio
- Power Automate, Forms, Power BI, and Viva Suite integrations
- SharePoint architecture for Copilot grounding
- Prompting patterns, real-world L&D scenarios, and competitor translation guide
- Security, data protection, accessibility, and team rollout
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Get Free Access ↓Google Gemini
The L&D Professional's Complete Guide
From ChatGPT to the Google Ecosystem: The Complete Implementation Guide
A 27-part implementation guide for L&D teams moving from ChatGPT to Gemini, or adding Gemini to their AI stack. Covers the full Google AI ecosystem — Gemini, NotebookLM, Gemini Canvas, Deep Research, Workspace integrations, Gems, and more — with real L&D scenarios throughout.
What's inside
- Why Gemini's Google Workspace integration changes L&D workflows
- Chat vs. Canvas and when to use each
- NotebookLM as your private L&D knowledge base
- Deep Research for curriculum development
- Gems: teaching Gemini how you work
- Real-world L&D scenarios and walkthroughs
- Getting Gemini content into your LMS
- Content QA, accessibility, cost management, and mobile
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Learning Technology, content systems, measurement, LMS strategy, team leadership
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Written from 4.5 years of real L&D leadership — not theory