AI tools for students
AI tools can help you generate text, create images, analyse data, summarise documents, and more. The collective term for these kinds of digital tools is generative AI. Students at Uppsala University have free access to the AI tool Copilot.
If you want to use AI when working on an assignment or in an exam, you should always check with the teacher if it is allowed and how you should report your use of the tool. Uppsala University has overarching guidelines on the use of generative AI in teaching and assessment.
Copilot
Copilot is an AI-driven chat tool from Microsoft. The service is available in browser form for all students and staff at the university.
Log in with your student account using in the same way you log in to other Microsoft services.
When you log in with your student account, using Copilot is as safe as using other Microsoft online services (M365). When you log in, your interactions with Copilot are safeguarded through the university’s agreement for data protection with Microsoft, which means that everything you enter and all of Copilot generated texts and images remain protected and are not accessible outside the university. You can be sure that chat data is not saved, no one at Microsoft or the University can see your data, and no data is used to train the LLMs (Large Language Models) used by Copilot to create texts and images.
Conversations and limited number of responses
Uppsala University’s version (license) of Copilot is limited to 30 responses per “conversation session” (each ongoing chat). When your 30 responses are used up, the conversation will end, and you will need to start a new session to continue chatting.
You can always end an ongoing conversation and start a new session when you are ready.