Teach Smarter Not Harder: AI Agents for Modern Educators

Program Overview

Educators are drowning — not in lesson planning or mentoring students, but in administrative overload. Answering the same 'When is the assignment due?' question 40 times per semester. Manually tracking attendance across 5 sections. Compiling progress reports that take entire weekends. Processing course registration queries that could be handled in seconds. The result? Burnout, less time for actual teaching, and students who wait days for responses that should be instant. This 16-hour program empowers educators, academic administrators, and ed-tech professionals to build intelligent AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio — completely without code. You'll start by building a Course FAQ Agent in the first 90 minutes that answers student questions 24/7 using your actual syllabus and course materials. The program is designed around real academic scenarios: a university department handling 2,000 student queries per semester, a professional training institute managing 15 concurrent cohorts, a K-12 school district automating parent communication, and a corporate L&D team personalizing learning paths for 500 employees. Every lab uses realistic educational data and produces agents you can deploy immediately. By the end, you'll have built a complete AI Teaching Assistant ecosystem — from student FAQ bots to assignment tracking agents to personalized learning recommenders. Your students get instant responses, your admin load drops by 60%, and you reclaim time for what actually matters: teaching, mentoring, and innovating.