Copilot Chat
Microsoft's conversational AI assistant for brainstorming ideas, summarizing information, generating images, assisting with Outlook emails and meetings, and more.
Cost
No CostAudience
Students Faculty & StaffPage updated
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Key features
| Copilot Chat Features | Students | Faculty/Staff |
Chat with Copilot: Brainstorm, research, draft content, and choose reasoning modes (Auto, Quick Response, Think Deeper) | ||
Pages: Interactive, editable workspace to organize ideas, iterate on drafts, and collaborate on content | ||
Copilot Notebooks: Group files into notebooks to ground Copilot in your content and generate study guides, maps, and summaries | ||
Deep Research: Deep-dive search and analysis across web sources to expand your notebook | ||
Agents: Build custom AI assistants with instructions and sources to automate tasks and specialized workflows | ||
Generate and edit images: Generate visuals from text prompts and refine them by editing backgrounds, removing objects, or applying effects | ||
Study and Learn Agent: AI study coach providing guided questioning, practice exercises, and step-by-step learning support | ||
Teach: Educator workspace to create lesson plans, classroom activities, and assessments aligned with objectives |
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FAQ
Copilot Chat is free for ASU students, faculty and staff. Microsoft 365 Copilot requires a paid license purchased by an individual department for eligible users.
Copilot Chat is a standalone AI assistant available through the Copilot app and website. Microsoft 365 Copilot adds AI features directly to Microsoft 365 applications and includes additional capabilities.
Confirm you're signed in with your ASU Microsoft account and that the Enterprise Data Protection shield appears in the upper-right corner. If you have multiple Microsoft accounts, switch to your ASU account before starting a conversation.
Each tool supports common tasks such as writing, brainstorming, research and content creation, but their integrations and features differ. Choose the tool that best fits the task and ASU's data classification requirements.
Yes. Copilot can translate text between 25+ languages. For academic, research, or official communications, you should always review and verify translations for accuracy before using them.
Data privacy
Copilot Chat is approved for sensitive data governed by FERPA and for ASU public, internal and sensitive data not governed by other regulations. It is not approved for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GLBA or other regulated data types. No ASU data, prompts, or responses are used to train the vendor's models.
Community & Support Channels
Need help?
If you have questions about using Copilot Chat, post your question in the #ai-support channel on Slack. For help with access, login or account issues, contact the ASU Experience Center at (480) 965-6500 or 1-855-278-5080.
Have a success story?
Have you used Copilot Chat in a way that's improved your teaching, learning, research or work? We'd love to hear about it. Share your experience in the #ai channel on Slack.