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Microsoft Copilot
Overview
Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered productivity tool developed by Microsoft, designed to enhance productivity, creativity, and understanding of information through a simple chat experience.
Copilot is built on the multimodal large language model (LLM) GPT-4 and the text-to-image model DALL-E 3.
Copilot is built into Microsoft's suite of productivity tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. This integration allows it to offer contextually relevant suggestions (ex. helping with formatting, and creating data visualizations), creating automations, and content creation (ex. text generation) right from within the tools.
For the latest Copilot updates, check out Microsoft’s updates page. →
Logging in & Accessing
Individuals with a Quinnipiac Microsoft 365 account can access Copilot within the Quinnipiac University enterprise organization.
Click the “Sign in” button on the top right of the Copilot home page and select “Sign in with a work or school account.”
If you’re already signed in to Microsoft 365, you will be redirected back to Copilot and can begin chatting. If not, you will be presented with a sign-in screen where you will enter username@quinnipiac.edu and sign in as usual.
Information Security
There are two easy ways to ensure you’re in the authenticated version of Copilot that’s provided by the university. “Quinnipiac University” and a green “Protected” box will appear on the home page.
Copilot’s data protection policies stipulate your prompts or the responses given are not saved, meaning chats are lost when the browser window is closed. Microsoft also has no ability to access or use chat data to train the LLM that powers Copilot. 3rd party plugins are also not supported.
Read more about Copilot’s commercial data protection →
Links & Resources
Learn more about Copilot prompts, which you can use to tell Copilot what you want →