Copilot Versions
| Version | Description | Licensing |
|---|---|---|
| Copilot Chat | Copilot Chat has access to public data on the internet using Bing Search. Users can also choose to upload files up to 1 MB in size when prompting Copilot Chat for a response. | All CU Boulder faculty, staff and students are licensed for Copilot Chat. |
| Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft 365 Copilot can access any data to which a user has access in Microsoft 365. This includes email, calendar events, Teams chats and files in OneDrive, Teams or SharePoint. | For eligibility, price and information on how to get it, visit the Microsoft 365 Copilot software catalog page. |
Copilot Chat
Features
Copilot Chat is a web-based chat tool that can help faculty, staff and students improve their productivity and efficiency. Copilot Chat uses the GPT-4o and DALL-E 3 AI models to answer questions, generate content, or help you with tasks using public online data.
- Summarize documents and websites
- Create lesson plans, quizzes or instructional material
- Conduct research for papers and assignments
- Generate images using DALL-E 3
- Assist in writing code in several programming languages
- Extract text from images
Who can get it
Copilot Chat is available at no cost to all eligible CU Boulder faculty, staff and students.
- If you are unable to access Copilot Chat and believe you should have access, please fill out the New Office 365 Apps License form in the OIT Messaging and Collaboration Request Portal.
- Faculty (excluding faculty emeritus) and staff who retire from the university will lose access to Copilot Chat upon retirement.
For additional information about what happens to your account after graduating or retiring from the university, see:
How to get it
Visit the Copilot Chat website and sign in with your IdentiKeyUsername@colorado.edu and IdentiKey password.
Copilot Chat supports Microsoft Edge (desktop and mobile) and other major non-Microsoft browsers like Chrome, Firefox* and Safari.**
*Customers using Linux may experience issues accessing Copilot Chat through Firefox.
**In certain cases, Safari may require you to add the Copilot Chat site address to the pop-up blocker's allow list.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is integrated into the Microsoft 365 suite and can be used with Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, Forms, Excel, Word and other apps. It helps users quickly generate content, analyze data, summarize documents, summarize meetings, learn new skills, find information and write code.
Microsoft 365 Copilot utilizes any data that you have permission to access and that is stored within the CU Boulder Microsoft 365 platform (Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Outlook, Microsoft Office, etc.). Please reference OIT's storage solutions by data requirements to learn more about storing sensitive data in the Microsoft 365 platform.
Features
Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI-powered chat tool that can help faculty, staff and students improve their productivity and efficiency. Microsoft 365 Copilot is integrated into the Microsoft 365 Suite and can be used in Teams, Office, OneDrive and many more Microsoft 365 apps.
Microsoft 365 Copilot uses the GPT-4o and DALL-E 3 AI models to answer questions, generate content, or help you with tasks using public online data.
- Summarize documents and websites, including documents stored in Microsoft 365 to which the user has access
- Perform tasks and create content in Microsoft 365 applications, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Summarize content of Teams chats, Word files, emails and transcribed/recorded meetings
- Create lesson plans, quizzes or instructional material
- Conduct research for papers and assignments
- Generate images using DALL-E 3
- Assist in writing code in several programming languages
- Extract text from images
Security Features
- User and university data in Microsoft 365 Copilot is protected and will not leak outside the organization.
- Chat data is not saved, Microsoft has no access to it, it is never used to train the model, and it will never be shared with OpenAI.
- Copilot uses an isolated version of OpenAI's GPT 4o, run in Microsoft data centers. All data, prompts and responses are protected under our Enterprise Data protection agreement with Microsoft.
- Even with these protections, users should review responses or files produced by Copilot and handle those containing confidential and/or highly confidential data as defined in CU's data classification policy.
Please note: Microsoft 365 Copilot uses any data stored or shared within the user's Microsoft 365 platform (e.g., Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Outlook, Microsoft Office, etc.). Please reference OIT's storage solutions by data requirements to learn more about storing sensitive data in the Microsoft 365 platform.
How to get it
Visit the Microsoft 365 Copilot Software Catalog page for eligibility, price and details on how to get this product.
Support Resources
- Learn more about Microsoft Copilot
- Frequently asked questions about Copilot Chat
- Copilot channel in CU System Percipio training portal
- Video: A new way to search: Microsoft Copilot
- Video Playlist: Working with Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Video: How to use Copilot AI // Bing Chat and Dall-E 3*
- The art of the prompt: How to get the best out of generative AI*
- Enterprise data protection in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
*These resources reference Bing Chat, which is the former name for Copilot Chat.
