Build Your Personal Brand with GitHub Copilot — Full Course for Students

Go from zero to a live portfolio website using the GitHub Copilot app — no coding experience required. This is the complete 10-episode student series in one video, covering the Student Developer Pack, prompting, Git and GitHub Pages, context and tokens, MCP servers, skills and agent personas, bring-your-own-model, Bootstrap, and controlling Copilot from your phone. In this course, you'll learn: → How to claim the GitHub Student Developer Pack and install the Copilot app + VS Code → How to turn a resume PDF into a real portfolio website by prompting, not coding → What Git, commits, branches, diffs, and pull requests actually are — explained on a lightboard → How to publish your site free on GitHub Pages and redeploy every time you edit → How to control Copilot with Interactive, Plan, and Autopilot modes → How context windows and tokens work, and how to use /init, /context, and /compact → How to extend Copilot with built-in tools and MCP servers like Playwright → How to build a reusable agent skill and install skills from a plugin marketplace → How to bring your own model with Microsoft Foundry and the Azure for Students credit → How to run a Copilot session from your phone with remote control and a QR code CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome — what you'll build in this series 1:05 Claiming the GitHub Student Developer Pack 7:15 Your first prompt: a Hello World site 10:45 EPISODE 2 — Build a portfolio website from a resume 14:23 Answering Copilot's questions about structure and style 18:37 Resume preview, school colors, and dark mode 23:05 EPISODE 3 — Git, GitHub, and GitHub Pages 23:42 Version control explained: diffs, commits, branches, merging 32:56 Creating a repository and pushing your site 47:49 Deploying with GitHub Pages 54:11 EPISODE 4 — Copilot settings, sessions, and modes 56:23 Interactive mode, Plan mode, and Autopilot mode 59:33 EPISODE 5 — Context and tokens 1:02:53 Adding project files and running /init 1:05:52 Shrinking your session with /compact 1:06:40 EPISODE 6 — Tools and MCP servers 1:11:08 Installing and using the Playwright MCP server 1:15:33 EPISODE 7 — Skills, agent personas, and marketplaces 1:23:50 Turning a workflow into a reusable skill 1:30:22 Adding a plugin marketplace 1:37:02 EPISODE 8 — Bring your own model 1:40:43 Using the Azure MCP to create a Foundry resource 1:47:48 Connecting Foundry as a model provider 1:51:50 EPISODE 9 — Modernize the site with Bootstrap 1:54:05 Sticky navbar, animated cards, and shadows 1:59:31 EPISODE 10 — Control Copilot from your phone 2:01:51 Remote control and the QR code handoff 2:04:29 Back at the laptop — the finished feature https://aka.ms/StudentAI-GitHubCopilo... https://aka.ms/StudentAI-GitHub https://aka.ms/StudentAI-GitHubPack https://aka.ms/StudentAI-VSCode https://aka.ms/build-your-personal-br... https://aka.ms/student-learning-series https://aka.ms/student-demo-series-we...