Microsoft Copilot at UC
Copilot Chat
The university’s Microsoft 365 licensing agreement provides current students, faculty, and staff privacy protected access to Microsoft Copilot chat.
Copilot chat (formerly known as Microsoft Bing Chat) is a generative AI chat assistant service grounded in data from the public web. It is designed to efficiently search, write summaries, and tackle complex inquiries.
Visit the IT Knowledge Base for helpful how-to information about Copilot.
Microsoft Copilot does not store search history or retain the specifics of inquiries and responses. It is disconnected from accessing organizational resources within Microsoft 365. Information shared with a university email address during search sessions remains private.
Copilot adheres to rigorous privacy and protection standards. For comprehensive details, please see Microsoft’s Privacy and Protections section.
While using AI tools for searches unrelated to personal or institutional data, accuracy of the information provided should always be verified, referencing the tool as you would any other source.
For privacy concerns or inquiries about data sharing with Copilot , please contact the university’s AI Committee.
Sign into Copilot Chat with Your UC Email
It is strongly recommended that you use your UC email for all university-related Copilot searches.
Follow the instructions below to access Microsoft Copilot.
- Go to https://copilot.microsoft.com/.
- Copilot supports Microsoft Edge (desktop and mobile) and other major non-Microsoft browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
- Sign in with your official UC email.
- This is the email address that uses your UC Username (sometimes called a 6 +2). For faculty and staff, it is typically xxxxxx@ucmail.uc.edu; for students, xxxxxx@mail.uc.edu.
Copilot for Microsoft 365
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is available to faculty and staff as paid add-on license.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is an expanded version of Copilot chat that includes organizational resources or content within Microsoft 365—documents in OneDrive, emails, or other data—in response to prompts.