Discover new ways to find relevant learning, stay engaged, prepare for credentials, and build skills in the flow of work with AI Skills Navigator.
The way we build skills is changing quickly. Learners want guidance that reflects their roles and goals, fits into busy schedules, and helps them move from learning to practice to validated skills. Team leaders and learning professionals need experiences that connect employees with the right next step without adding complexity.
We’re continuing to improve AI Skills Navigator to support those needs. The latest updates make learning more interactive, help you discover relevant content, connect credential preparation, and make progress easier to follow, whether you’re learning independently or helping others build skills.
Stay engaged with skilling sessions
Sometimes learning takes more than watching a video. You may want to ask a question, test your understanding, or work through a concept before moving on.
Skilling sessions combine expert-created video content with AI-powered coaching and knowledge checks, helping you learn something new in a short amount of time and gradually build your knowledge.
During a skilling session, an AI-powered coach can answer questions grounded in the material, while chapters and quick knowledge checks help you navigate and reinforce what you’ve learned. Recent updates add voice dictation and identify sessions that use an AI-generated presenter or voice.
The catalog spans business and technical topics, from prompting, marketing, and customer service to agent development, DevOps, data, cloud migration, and security.
A skilling session with video learning and AI-powered coaching
Learn from people you trust
AI Skills Navigator now offers expanded ways to explore learning from Microsoft experts and industry leaders. Expert Voices brings their perspectives into the experience, helping you understand not only what to learn, but why it matters.
You can also explore technical content around goals such as AI-assisted coding and building or orchestrating agents, making it easier to start with what you want to accomplish and find learning that can help you get there.
Follow a path with skilling playlists
When there’s a lot to learn, figuring out where to start—and what to tackle next—can be part of the challenge. Skilling playlists are structured paths that help you build skills around a goal or need. You can use AI to create one tailored to your goals, build a custom playlist when you already have specific content in mind, and now start with a featured playlist curated by Microsoft experts.
Find a path that fits what you want to learn by exploring Featured playlists, where you can search, sort, filter, and preview paths by role, product, topic, or level.
See how skilling is progressing across your organization
After you create and assign a skilling playlist, Your playlists gives you a snapshot of learner progress for that individual path. For a broader view, Reporting brings together insights across the organization.
Team leaders can see learner onboarding and engagement, playlist adoption and progress, popular learning content, and the skills employees are developing through that learning. Together, these views make it easier to understand how learners are engaging with skilling and where additional support may be useful.
We’ll take a closer look at playlists, reporting, and organizational skilling with AI Skills Navigator in upcoming feature posts.
Organizational reporting with insights into playlist activity and progress
Prepare for credentials with a clearer path
Credentials give you a way to validate what you know and can do. Microsoft Certifications and Microsoft Applied Skills can help you demonstrate your proficiency as you build expertise or prepare for what’s next.
AI Skills Navigator brings more of that credential journey together. You can now see earned Certifications and Applied Skills in your profile, making it easier to keep track of your achievements in one place.
If you’re preparing for a certification, featured playlists, practice assessments, and additional resources bring recommended steps into a more guided experience. For example, the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals page brings preparation resources together so you can follow a structured path, check your readiness, and identify what to revisit before the exam.
As you work toward a credential, the learning along the way counts too. Your learning streak tracks consecutive weeks when you complete at least one module, video, or skilling session. Visit the For you page to see your current streak and personal best, then see how far you can take it.
Bring skilling into the flow of work with Learning Agent
For people and organizations using Microsoft Copilot, there’s a new way to bring skilling into the flow of work. Learning Agent in Microsoft Copilot is a personalized upskilling experience that uses role information, work context, skills signals, and organizational learning sources to help you find a relevant next step.
With AI Skills Navigator now part of the experience, Learning Agent can also recommend modules, learning paths, curated videos, skilling sessions, and Microsoft Credentials. Supported content can open alongside your Copilot conversation, with progress carried into AI Skills Navigator so you can continue later. Start with a question in Copilot, get guidance in the moment, and keep building skills over time.
Read the full story: AI Skills Navigator is now available in Microsoft Copilot.
Make AI Skills Navigator yours
Together, these updates give you more relevant ways to find learning, stay engaged, prepare for credentials, and keep building momentum. Your AI Skills Navigator profile helps shape that experience around you. Add or update details such as your role, goals, and interests so AI Skills Navigator can connect you with learning that’s more relevant to the skills you want to build.
For organizations, these updates create stronger ways to guide skilling across roles and goals, with insights to understand how learners are engaging and progressing along the way. Explore AI Skills Navigator to find the next step that fits you or your team.
Byline:
Vaishali Kartik is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, leading the team that develops AI Skills Navigator learning, practice, and credential capabilities.
Tanmay Dileep Bhagwat is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, leading the team that develops AI-powered and organizational capabilities for AI Skills Navigator.
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