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This document details how UW-Platteville faculty, staff, and students can sign into Microsoft Copilot with their UWPLATT account.
What is Microsoft Copilot?
Microsoft Copilot is available to all UW-Platteville faculty, staff, and students with enhanced data protections when signed in with a UWPLATT account. Copilot is Microsoft’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform and can be used to generate written and visual content based on user prompts. Copilot has access to current internet data, enabling it to provide up-to-date responses to requests, but its responses may contain inaccuracies.
Unlike other commercial AI products, Copilot provides additional data protection and enhanced privacy when accessing it while being signed in with your UWPLATT account. Even so, you should not enter sensitive information like bank accounts or personal health records into Microsoft Copilot.
Logging in
- To use Copilot, open your web browser (Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge) and navigate to Copilot (https://copilot.microsoft.com/).
- Select the Sign in button located at the top right.
- If presented the option, select the "Sign in with a work or school account".
- Enter your UWPLATT email address in the email field. Click Next.
- Log in using your UWPLATT password. Click Sign in.
The Copilot login experience in Office 365 may vary. After you've logged in, if you find yourself at a page that does not have a "message Copilot" field, look for the Apps button on the left. Open Apps and find Copilot there.
Consider the Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI) linked on the right when using Copilot or other AI tools.
Need help?
If you have questions, please contact the ITS Help Desk at 608.342.1400 or helpdesk@uwplatt.edu. You may also visit the Help Desk on the first floor of the Karrmann Library.