In this one-day course students learn how to use the Semantic Kernel SDK to build intelligent applications that automate tasks and perform natural language processing.

This one-day course prepares you for an Applied Skills credential.
For more than 30 years, Microsoft's industry-recognised certifications have provided proof of world-class technical proficiency for in-demand job roles. In today’s ever-changing business environment, there are also times when you need verified project-specific skills. Microsoft Applied Skills is a new verifiable credential that validates that you have the targeted skills needed to implement critical projects aligned to business goals and objectives. Applied Skills gives you a new opportunity to put your skills centre-stage, empowering you to showcase what you can do and what you can bring to key projects in your organisation.

Students in this course are familiar with C# development and interested in integrating applications with AI.

Before attending this course, students should have:

• Experience programming in C#
• Visual Studio Code IDE installed
• Familiarity with Azure and the Azure portal
• Access to Azure Open AI Services

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the purpose of Semantic Kernel
• Understand prompting basics
• Understand techniques for more effective prompts
• Understand the purpose of Semantic Kernel plugins
• Use premade plugins
• Create your own plugins
• Understand native functions in the Semantic Kernel SDK
• Create native function plugins
• Combine prompts with native functions
• Understand planners in the Semantic Kernel SDK
• Use planners to automate function calls
• Understand how to optimise planners
• Use Semantic Kernel SDK to automatically invoke functions

• Build your kernel
• Create plugins for semantic kernel
• Give your AI agent skills
• Use intelligent planners
• Guided project - Create an AI travel agent