Information Technology Services

Microsoft Copilot

Brandeis community members have access to Microsoft Copilot under our A1 and A3 M365 licensing. As long as you are using Copilot with an @brandeis.edu account, your data is kept secure and is not shared outside of your account. Please see below to learn how to access Copilot and to see what features are available.  For more information on accessing M365, visit the ITS Microsoft Information Webpage. You can also compare Copilot, Gemini and other platforms using our GenAI Comparison Infographic.

Accessing Copilot

Copilot Chat

All FTE Faculty, Staff, Current Students, Temporary staff, scholars and researchers with affiliate appointments only, and contingent workers may access to Copilot Chat online by logging into M365 Office using your Brandeis credentials.

Copilot Studio

All FTE Faculty, Staff, and Current Students may access Copilot Studio under our A3 license by logging into the Copilot Studio website using your Brandeis credentials. Unfortunately this feature is not available to Temporary staff, scholars and researchers with affiliate appointments only, and contingent workers under our A1 license.

Copilot Features

  • Enterprise Data Protection:  This ensures that your data is not accessible outside of Brandeis. Your data will not be shared with others and is not being used by Microsoft to train their models or to provide information to others outside of our institution. When using Copilot, you must be signed in with an @brandeis.edu account to access this feature.
  • Copilot Chat (Video)
    You can use Copilot Chat to do market research, write a strategy document, prepare for a meeting and for many other purposes. 
  • Copilot Pages (Video)
    With Copilot Pages, you can collaborate on content with people and AI in real time—adding content from Copilot, your files, and now from the web as well. 
  • File Upload1
    Copilot allow you to add any document to the chat and ask Copilot to do things like summarize key points in a Word document, analyze data in an Excel spreadsheet, and suggest improvements to a PowerPoint presentation. 
  • Code Interpreter1 
    This feature allows users to directly execute Python code to solve complex tasks like data analysis, visualization, and calculations.
  • Image Generation2
    You can quickly create AI-generated images for campaigns, product launches, and social media posts.
  • Copilot Agents4 - Available as a trial-basis under our licensing agreement
    Copilot agents are AI-powered assistants that work with Microsoft 365 Copilot to help users complete tasks.They can automate repetitive tasks, provide suggestions, and offer insights. More information can be found on the Microsoft Agents Introduction Website.  Agent Options include:
    • Create agents using Copilot Studio3
    • Discover and pin agents
    • Use agents grounded in web data
    • Use agents grounded in work data (work data in your tenant’s microsoft graph and 3rd party data via graph connectors4 
    • Use agents that act independently using autonomous actions4

Currently, our licensing does not allow for access to Copilot Personal Assistant, which provides integration with M365 products such as Word, Excel, etc.

1 File upload limits apply. Microsoft changes upload limits frequently. As of 3/12/25, the file upload limit is 1MB

2 Image generation limits apply

3 Learn more about Copilot Studio at aka.ms/CopilotStudioCapabilities

4 Limits apply