• Training Room

    Introducing Staff to Generative AI – Why Would I Use Copilot Chat?
    Provider   Education Enhancement - OSDU

    This session is aimed at academic and professional services staff who wish to understand more about using Microsoft Copilot Chat. You will learn about the main features of the tool, with practical demonstrations of different types of prompts, and how to create a task-specific agent.

Duration 1 hour

Course Type Webinar

Booking Status Waiting List

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Target Audience: Staff at Strathclyde who would like to develop and apply essential AI skills.

All University staff and students now have access to Microsoft Copilot Chat through their University Microsoft 365 account. This is the browser-based AI chat-agent powered by Microsoft's Copilot But what can you actually do within Copilot Chat, and why would you choose to use it over the likes of ChatGPT?

 

This beginner-friendly online session provides a short summary of Copilot Chat, including data security information, explores the main tasks that it can perform, and looks at new features like specialised agents.

 

The session will also provide practical demonstrations of Copilot Chat, showing how it can support varied job roles across the University.

 

By the end of this session, participants should be able to:

  • Explain the main features of Microsoft Copilot Chat.
  • Understand the basics of the Microsoft Enterprise Data Protection License, in relation to the University of Strathclyde.
  • Demonstrate prompt creation within Copilot Chat, and assess the quality of the ouput.
  • Build a basic Agent within Copilot Chat, to carry out a specific range of tasks.


Delivered By: Education Enhancement Team

Prerequisites

Suitable for staff with very little experience of Generative AI; basic confidence using a web browser is assumed.