#  Microsoft Copilot 

 



#  Microsoft Copilot 

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##  Overview 

Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft’s AI assistant built into Microsoft 365. It helps with writing, summarizing, analyzing data, and creating content from natural-language prompts, and can work across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and the web.

Harvard Microsoft Copilot licenses include access to:

*Basic tier (available to all Harvard Microsoft 365 users):*

- **Copilot Chat:** An AI chat assistant available in Microsoft Teams, Outlook, the Microsoft 365 app, and the Edge sidebar. Included with your Harvard Microsoft 365 account at no extra cost, with web-grounded answers, writing help, and general productivity assistance.

*Premium tier (available by request at additional cost):*

- **Microsoft 365 Copilot app:** Brings together Copilot Chat, Search, Agents, Pages, and Notebooks in one place, grounded in your own Harvard email, files, meetings, and chats.
- **Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams:** In-app AI assistance for drafting and editing documents, analyzing data and building formulas, designing presentations, managing your inbox, recapping meetings, and creating images.
- **Copilot Notebooks and Pages:** Turn Copilot conversations into organized, shareable content, with a saved history you can return to and build on.
- **Copilot agents:** Pre-built agents (such as Researcher and Analyst) and SharePoint agents that can complete multi-step tasks grounded in your Harvard work data.



 

 ### Not included

*API keys:*

Microsoft Copilot does not offer a public API for programmatic use. If you need programmatic access to an AI model, request it through [Harvard's API Platform](https://www.huit.harvard.edu/ai-developer-tools).



 

 ### Limitations

- Claude cannot currently be selected as a model within Harvard Microsoft 365 Copilot.



 

 ### Security

- Copilot Chat and Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams are approved for work using up to [Level 3 confidential data](https://privsec.harvard.edu/data-classification-table).



 

 ### Privacy

- Data you enter will not be used to train Microsoft models.
- Harvard cannot access data from user sessions.



 

  

 

 

 

##  Request a license 

- All Harvard Microsoft 365 users have access to the **basic** tier of Copilot. Sign in with your HarvardKey at [copilot.cloud.microsoft](https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/).
- To request a **premium** license, use the form linked below and select the Microsoft 365 Copilot Premium.



 

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##  Help and more resources 

 



 article 

 [### Learn more

 ](https://harvard.service-now.com/ithelp?id=kb_article&sys_id=a8026b6a93928b103953bbcc5cba101c)More information on Copilot



 

 

 help\_center 

 [### Get help from HUIT

 ](/get-help)Contact the HUIT Service Desk



 

 

 mail 

 [### Share feedback and requests

 ](mailto:ithelp@harvard.edu)Share feedback on Copilot and requests for new features