Microsoft 365 Copilot products
Information last updated August 5, 2025
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is a basic generative AI chatbot that's part of Microsoft 365. It's available for free to everyone at UVic.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is a more advanced generative AI tool designed to help users with a wide range of tasks. It will be available at UVic in the fall of 2025.
Microsoft Copilot is similar to Copilot Chat, but not suitable for use at work.
Details
- Type
- Microsoft 365 apps
- For
- Students & employees (M365 Copilot Chat), Employees (M365 Copilot)
- Cost
- M365 Copilot Chat: free. M365 Copilot: approximately $45/month, final cost to be announced
- Platform
- , M365 apps (M365 Copilot)
Access M365 Copilot Chat
- Go to .
- Sign in with your NetLink credentials.
- You will see a green shield icon to let you know Enterprise Data Protection is in place.
When you are signed in and see the green shield, information you enter stays in our Microsoft 365 tenant and is protected by our security policies. If you don't sign in, you are using Microsoft Copilot, and your information doesn't stay in our tenant and is not protected by our security policies.
Always sign in with your NetLink credentials when using Copilot for work.
M365 Copilot
M365 Copilot is an AI assistant built into the suite of Microsoft 365 apps. It's designed to enhance productivity by providing personalized help based on users’ data.
M365 Copilot is a fee-based subscription service and isn't included with our UVic Microsoft 365 accounts. It will be available for purchase through the TSC in the fall of 2025.
Copilot Agents
Copilot Agents use AI to do tasks for you, like finding information, summarising data or even sending emails. They can follow instructions and work with your tools and data to automate tasks. You can create your own agents using a tool called Copilot Studio Agent Builder.
Learn more about .
Privacy & information security
Your data is secured by Enterprise Data Protection as long as you sign in to Copilot with your NetLink ID. Look for the green shield in the top right corner of the Copilot interface to be sure.
Enterprise Data Protection uses strong encryption and strict security measures. It keeps your information separate from other users, IT, Microsoft and OpenAI.
You can read for more information.
If you sign in with your UVic account, Copilot stores your conversation history and only you can view your saved conversations. Administrators cannot access your usage or history. They’re stored in UVic's Microsoft 365 tenant.
If you don't sign in with your UVic account, you will be using the consumer version of Copilot. This version doesn't have Enterprise Data Protection. This means that data you enter is not private and may be used for training.
Compare features
M365 Copilot Chat
- Cost: Free
- Conversational AI: Yes
- Web search: Yes
- Image creation/understanding: Yes
- Content creation: Basic drafting, summarizing and editing
- : No
- : No
- Enterprise Data Protection: Yes
M365 Copilot
- Cost: Monthly fee
- Conversational AI: Yes
- Web search: Yes
- Image creation/understanding: Yes
- Content creation: Advanced drafting, summarizing and editing across apps, Access to your Teams chats, emails, OneDrive, and SharePoint files.
- : Yes
- : Yes
- Enterprise Data Protection: Yes
Other Copilot-branded products
Microsoft has several other products that use the Copilot brand. They're all more specialized tools used for software development, data analysis, and system administration. None of them are currently available at UVic.
- Power Platform Copilot
- Power BI Copilot
- GitHub Copilot
- Security Copilot
Self-help resources
Get help now
Contact the Computer Help Desk to:
- get help accessing Copilot
- report an outage or issue