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Microsoft Copilot

What is Microsoft Copilot?

Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant available to the University of Houston for faculty, staff, and students through the university’s Microsoft environment.

It supports everyday academic and administrative work by helping users generate, summarize, and organize content using natural language.

Copilot Capabilities

  • Draft emails, reports, and announcements 
  • Summarize documents or conversations 
  • Generate ideas, outlines, and structured content 
  • Simplify complex information into clear explanations

Copilot provides a starting point that users can review, refine, and finalize based on their needs.

🔐  Your privacy and data security are a priority. When you log in with your CougarNet account, your data is protected from being used to train AI models or made publicly accessible.

Role-Based Use Cases

Faculty Staff Students
  • Generate discussion questions and assessments 
  • Draft assignment instructions and rubrics 
  • Summarize research materials 
  • Draft responses to student communications 
  • Simplify complex concepts for instructional use 
  • Summarize email threads and communications
  • Convert meeting notes into structured reports
  • Draft memos, announcements, and agendas
  • Create templates for recurring processes
  • Prepare talking points for meetings 
  • Understand course concepts in plain language
  • Develop outlines for assignments
  • Improve writing through guided feedback
  • Generate study questions from notes
  • Draft professional communications 

Copilot at UH

Audience Available Tools Cost
UH Students and Employees
  • Copilot Chat (AI Assistant)
  • Agent Builder
  • Copilot in Teams
  • Copilot in Outlook
 Free, already available
Employees who want deeper Copilot integration across Microsoft tools
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Agent Builder
  • Copilot Studio
  • Copilot in Teams
  • Copilot in Outlook
 $220 /year
Request a license:
software@uh.edu

Need help understanding the difference between Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot? Visit our guide on Choosing the Right Copilot for You.

Accessing Copilot

  1. Go to copilot.microsoft.com 
  2. Select Sign In
  3. Enter your UH email address and password; complete multi-factor authentication 
  4. Enter your request or question in natural language to begin interacting with Microsoft Copilot.

Copilot Prompt Window

To learn more about Copilot for your department, contact aisolutions@uh.edu.