Overview
Learn how to use Copilot with Commercial Data Protection, the web-based, AI-powered chat companion tool from Microsoft, formerly called Bing Chat Enterprise.
- Copilot with Commercial Data Protection uses OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o language model and the DALL-E 3 image generation model.
- It is available for use by University of Oregon faculty and staff through our Microsoft site-license agreement.
- Copilot with Commercial Data Protection will protect any queries or data submitted through it for faculty and staff only.
- This is not Copilot for M365 which integrates into the Office applications (i.e. Outlook, Word, etc.) that would be able to access organizational data.
Clarification
Copilot is the AI-based service offering from Microsoft that works within many different aspects. This article covers the publicly available AI-powered chatbot that uses public data under commercial data protection offered to Microsoft enterprise subscribers like the University of Oregon.
Accessing Copilot with Commercial Data Protection
To access Copilot with Commercial Data Protection, you can navigate to its home page.
- Navigate to copilot.microsoft.com
- Sign-in with your full UO email address and password. This ensures that all content entered into Copilot will remain protected from AI outside of the University of Oregon.
Limitations
- Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome browser are the recommended and supported browsers at this time.
- For Firefox and Safari users: Copilot with Commercial Data Protection is accessible through a login prompt. Enter your full UO email address and password to proceed.
- This is a public preview of Copilot with Commercial Data Protection and may offer some surprises and mistakes. It is still in active development.
- Queries are limited to 30 responses per conversation style per browser session.
Using Copilot with Commercial Data Protection
Upon signing in to Copilot with Commercial Data Protection with your Duck ID, you will be directed to its homepage where it offers some introduction to the tool as well as some prompts to begin searches and queries. To begin, enter a prompt into the Ask me anything... field at the bottom of the window. Prompts are largely composed of text-based requests. Files and image files can be incorporated into a prompt to focus Copilot within those parameters by selecting the paper clip icon within that field.
Once the prompt has been entered, you can press Enter or Return on your keyboard or select the Send icon indicated by a paper airplane to have Copilot generate a response.
You can continue to have Copilot refine your initial prompt or select the New Topic button to the left of the Ask me anything... field.
Next steps
Once Copilot with Commercial Data Protection has replied, you can choose from four options if you wish by hovering your cursor over the response:
- Like (indicated by a thumbs-up icon)
- Dislike (indicated by a thumbs-down icon)
- Copy (indicated by a copy icon)
- This will copy the response to your system's clipboard.
- Export (indicated by a down arrow icon)
- This will allow for download as a Word (DOCX) document file, a PDF file, or a text file.
Selecting like and dislike will prompt a dialog box to offer feedback to Microsoft to improve Copilot with Commercial Data Protection's performance and user experience. You choose to share your chat prompt, response, and diagnostic data with Microsoft. Once the feedback form is complete, you can click Submit.
Need help?
For more questions about Copilot with Commercial Data Protection, please consult the Frequently asked questions: AI, Microsoft 365 Copilot with Commercial Data Protection, and Microsoft Designer article from Microsoft.