Microsoft 365 training courses for your whole team
Every Ingenio client gets Lightbulb, our training portal with more than 150 courses. Here is what is inside, plus the best free resources.
Most businesses pay for Microsoft 365 and use a small part of it. Email and Word see daily use while Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Planner sit idle, and the productivity the licence promised never arrives.
Training fixes that, and it works best little and often, inside the working week. So every business on our managed IT support gets Ingenio Lightbulb: a training portal with a library of more than 150 courses covering Microsoft 365, cyber security and workplace skills, ready for every learner in your business.
If you are not a client yet, start with the free Microsoft resources further down this page, and download the adoption checklist to see where your setup has gaps.
Book a Lightbulb demo
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Delivered by our Brighton-based team, rated 4.9 stars on Google by the businesses we support.
What your team gets on Lightbulb
Lightbulb is included with Ingenio support. No per-course fees, no seat limits, and your whole team can use it from day one.
Every core app covered
Structured Microsoft 365 courses for Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneDrive and Planner, from first steps to power user.
Teams and SharePoint
Learn to collaborate properly: channels, file libraries, sharing and co-editing without version chaos.
Short, practical lessons
Bite-size video courses your team can fit around the day job, like the popular Excel in 30 Minutes series.
Quizzes and pass marks
Courses end with a quiz and a pass score, so the learning sticks rather than washing over people.
Cyber security awareness
Phishing and security courses sit alongside the app training, so your first line of defence keeps improving.
Progress you can see
Enrol your whole business and track who has completed what, course by course.
Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI training
Copilot is the biggest change to Microsoft 365 since it moved to the cloud, and it rewards preparation. Rolled out cold, AI surfaces every permission mistake in your tenant and answers questions with whatever it finds.
We get businesses ready with our fixed-price Copilot Readiness Assessment: licensing, data permissions, a pilot group and staff training, all in one report. If you want the basics first, read our Microsoft Copilot for business guide.
Free Microsoft 365 training from Microsoft
Get started with Microsoft’s own free material. It is good, it is current, and these are the pages we point people to most.
Microsoft 365 video training
Short video courses for each Microsoft 365 app. A quick way in if you learn best by watching.
Hands on Training Template
Learn Word, Excel and PowerPoint step by step using free templates built for practice.
Microsoft 365 quick starts
One-page guides that get you working in each app fast, wherever you are.
Learn how to collaborate together
Microsoft's guide to working together on files, calendars and chat as one team.
Microsoft 365 browser training
Courses on using Word, Excel and the rest of Microsoft 365 in a browser, on any machine.
YouTube
Channels we rate for Microsoft 365 tutorials: Mike Tholfsen, Learnit Training, Teacher’s Tech, Kevin Stratvert, Microsoft 365 help for small businesses
Paid Microsoft 365 training resources
If you want certificates or deeper study than free material offers, these training course platforms charge for it and do it well.
Udemy
Pay-per-course Microsoft 365 training you can work through at your own pace.
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn's learning platform covers Microsoft 365 and Office 365 in depth, free for the first month.
edX
University-grade courses on Microsoft 365, taught by Microsoft and partner institutions.
Download the Microsoft 365 adoption checklist
Thirty checks across licences, security, files, Teams, training and Copilot readiness. Tick what you can prove, and you will see exactly where your Microsoft 365 setup leaks time and invites risk.
Enter your work email and the download link appears straight away.