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Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot helps leaders, educators, and staff work more efficiently by bringing AI assistance directly into the tools they use every day—supporting productivity with built‑in enterprise safeguards.
OVERVIEW
Explore Microsoft 365 Copilot in education
Transform education experiences and save time for what matters most with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Available now as an academic offering for $18 (USD) per user per month.1
- Use secure AI chat powered by GPT-5 at no additional cost when signed in with your school or work account, now available in Microsoft 365 apps.
- Easily draft, summarize, translate, code, collaborate, and identify new insights based on your files in real time so you can focus on what matters most.
- Kick-start the creative process with Copilot Chat as a thought partner, discover new perspectives and ideas, and bring concepts to life with custom images.
- Use natural language to create agents focused on supporting you with the task at hand. Access and use agents priced on a pay-as-you-go basis.
- Harness the power of AI across your educational data—draw from documents, emails, meetings, and chats—to streamline data analysis, generate tailored reports, and uncover insights that empower educators and students to achieve their goals.
- Collaborate with Copilot in apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and OneNote. Use AI assistance to create educational materials such as lesson plans, accelerate decision-making and projects, and reinvest time in student engagement.
- Agentic AI enables education institutions to build intelligent agents that reason, act, and collaborate across academic and operational environments—grounded in institutional data and secured with enterprise-grade governance to scale AI with confidence.
- Prepare for rollout, understand usage trends, identify impact, and track user sentiment with the Copilot Dashboard.
- A better way to learn with AI - not just get answers. Built on learning science, Study and Learn helps students understand, think, practice and master what they are learning.
- The Study and Learn Agent is built on core learning science principles that keep learners actively engaged. Through adaptive scaffolding, productive struggle, and retrieval-based practice, it supports deeper understanding while helping learners build confidence.
- Study & Learn is a purpose-built experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot that helps students understand concepts, solve problems, and improve writing—without doing the work for them. Grounded in learning science, it uses guided practice and interactive activities to reinforce learning. The result: more effective studying and a scalable, learning-first AI experience for institutions.
- To give students (13+) access to Study and Learn Agent, first enable Microsoft Copilot for eligible students in your tenant. Once Copilot is enabled, students can access the agent. Follow the step‑by‑step instructions at the link below to assign licenses and configure access.
- Copilot inherits the security, compliance, identity, and privacy policies you’ve set up in Microsoft 365.
- Your data is isolated within your Microsoft 365 tenant and never used to train foundation models.
- Get the confidence to move from agentic AI experimentation to enterprise-scale operations by giving your IT and security teams a control plane to observe, govern, and secure every agent across your organization.
- Take advantage of a set of integrated controls and capabilities for Copilot and agents to protect institutional data.
DEMOS
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Teach
Teach in the Microsoft 365 Copilot App is a home where educators can easily access AI-powered teaching tools to create lesson plans, draft materials like quizzes and rubrics, and quickly make modifications to language, reading level, length, difficulty, alignment to relevant standards, and more.
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70%
Of the Fortune 500 use Microsoft 365 Copilot
82%
of students agree that knowing how to use AI effectively and responsibly is important for their future
36%
of educators report using AI daily for school
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RESOURCES
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Frequently asked questions
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is an AI chat available at no additional cost with Microsoft 365. It includes web grounding, the latest language models, file uploads, Copilot Pages, IT controls, and enterprise-grade privacy and security.
When you add a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, Copilot Chat becomes more powerful by drawing on Microsoft Graph, working directly in productivity apps, and offering comprehensive agent access plus advanced management and analytics. - 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 13 and older. Review the Copilot Chat documentation for more information.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is available as an add-on to Microsoft 365. A qualifying Microsoft 365 subscription is required to purchase Copilot. - Copilot Studio is the comprehensive tool for building agents, which use AI to automate and execute business processes while working alongside or on behalf of a person, team, or organization. Agents built in Copilot Studio can integrate your data, take action, and be deployed across multiple channels—pay only for what you use. For those licensed for Microsoft 365 Copilot, use of agents published to Microsoft 365 Copilot is included in their license.
- The Copilot Control System (CCS) spans three functional areas critical to the administration of Copilot and agents: security and governance, management controls, and measurement and reporting. Additionally, CCS is grounded in the existing controls and commitments we manage on behalf of our Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, and Microsoft Copilot Studio customers. It also includes our enterprise data protection commitments, built-in safety and governance controls, and our responsible AI services.
- Explore our insights on the opportunities and challenges in the Microsoft Special Report: AI in Education.
For studies from Microsoft Research, read about how students see AI in higher education and how AI provides new and unique learning opportunities.
For early findings on the impact of Copilot, read an initial analysis by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business faculty.
For insights on AI and the future of work, visit WorkLab. - Use the Copilot Chat adoption resources, Copilot Chat Success Kit, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot Evaluation Toolkit to get started on your rollout.
- “Agent” is an industry-standard term commonly used to describe AI assistants. In education, agents can be tailored to have a particular expertise—whether it’s instructional design or individual student preferences—and can leverage institutional data to offer relevant insights to educators and administrators. The ability to build and add agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot is included in the Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Agents can also be accessed and used in Copilot Chat, priced on a metered basis.
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