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What is Microsoft Copilot?

Microsoft Copilot is a suite of general purpose AI assistants within the Microsoft 365 platform. As an alternative to public AI tools and services (such as ChatGPT, Bard...etc.), Copilot comes with data protection standards that align with the rest of Microsoft 365 at SFU, so no matter what you're working on you have access to an AI assistant that can help with your day.

At SFU, Microsoft Copilot encompasses:

• Copilot Chat (detailed on this webpage)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot

Copilot Chat

Copilot Chat is a generative AI assistant that is available to all of the 51社区黑料community to help with learning & teaching, work, and research at the university.

Copilot Chat:

• Uses SFU's privacy and security standards so you can get assistance with content that may not be appropriate in public AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Bard...etc).
• Ensures your chat data is encrypted during your conversations and isn't viewable by Microsoft or anyone else.
• Will not retain any data about your conversation at the end of your session. Your conversations remain secure in the SFU Microsoft 365 space.
• Ensures that data you share with it isn't used to further train the underlying large language model as it would be with public AI companions.

How does Copilot Chat help?

Copilot is conversational, so you can ask it for help with a wide variety of topics, but here are a few examples: 

• Personalized Learning: As a student, Copilot can support your personalized learning goals by acting as a thought partner to help you create content, understand material, or work through complex problems step-by-step. Copilot will also provide its own references so you can dive deeper into the original material.
• Lesson Brainstorming: As an instructor, you can use Copilot to brainstorm new ideas for activities, lesson plans, supporting materials, and assignments.  
• Work Assistance: As staff, Copilot can help you draft images or content, or summarize and give feedback on documents you share with it so you can quickly focus on what you want to accomplish.

Available to

Faculty, Staff & Students*

*The Microsoft 365 Copilot version of Copilot is unavailable to students.