Note: this blog has been updated to reflect product and process changes
Copilot Chat is your free, secure AI chat powered by GPT-4o with enterprise data protection. It includes features like file and image upload, image generation, Copilot Pages, previous chats, summarization, code interpreter, and more. Plus, you can now access and use agents, priced on a metered basis. Learn more: aka.ms/CopilotChatEDU
Enterprise data protection means prompts and responses are protected by the same contractual terms and commitments widely trusted by our customers for their emails in Exchange and files in SharePoint. We secure your data, your data is private, your access controls and policies apply to Copilot, you’re protected against AI security and copyright risks, and your data isn’t used to train foundation models. Learn more: https://learn.microsoft.com/copilot/microsoft-365/enterprise-data-protection
Copilot Chat is available at no cost for users with a Microsoft 365 A1, A3, or A5 license when signed in with their school or work account. It is currently available to faculty, staff, and higher education students aged 18+. Get started today at M365Copilot.com.
Learn more:
- Copilot Chat documentation: aka.ms/CopilotChatDocs
- Copilot Chat Starter Kit for Education: aka.ms/Copilot/StarterKit/EDU
- Agent Starter Kit: aka.ms/AgentStarterKit
In this blog, we will focus on options and recommendations for managing user access to Copilot Chat.
We recommend all Education customers take additional steps to manage appropriate deployment:
- Validate your school type as Higher education, Primary/Secondary/K-12, or Other (research institution, academic library, etc.) to help us tailor the search and chat experience for your users.
- To do this, you will need a PowerShell script: ConfigureTenantEduType.ps1 that you can download here.
- To run the script, open PowerShell in administrator mode. Also make sure you have the username and password available of a global administrator on your tenant. On your first run, the necessary packages will be installed, hence the administrator mode.
- Usage:
- .\ConfigureTenantEduType.ps1 - When no parameter is used the actual setting of the tenant will be retrieved.
- .\ConfigureTenantEduType.ps1 1 - This sets the tenant identifier to K-12
- .\ConfigureTenantEduType.ps1 2 - This sets the tenant identifier to HED.
- .\ConfigureTenantEduType.ps1 3 - This sets the tenant identifier to other.
- Update Age group classifications and Consent provided for minor fields in the Microsoft Entra admin center. Higher education organizations can use these fields to indicate which students should or should not be eligible in their tenant, and all organizations can use these fields to prepare for future offers or to manage access to existing applications. There are multiple ways to update these fields including leveraging School Data Sync, PowerShell, the Graph API, or manually. Learn more: Elevating User Management with Age Group and Consent Provided Fields in Microsoft Entra - Microsoft Community Hub
- Use Microsoft Entra terms of use for any desired additional or custom use policies. Organizations can use terms of use along with Conditional Access policies to require users or guests to accept your terms of use policy before getting access. These terms of use statements can be generalized or specific to groups or users and provided in multiple languages. Note: a working Microsoft Entra tenant with Microsoft Entra ID P1, or trial license, is required and currently available to Microsoft 365 A3 and A5 customers. Learn more: Terms of use in Microsoft Entra ID - Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft
