Microsoft Introduces Copilot Chat Agents for Education

Campus Technology

Rhea Kelly

February 3, 2025

Microsoft recently announced Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, a new pay-as-you-go offering that adds AI agents to its existing free chat tool for Microsoft 365 education customers. Powered by generative AI, agents can be tailored to perform autonomous tasks with a particular expertise, the company explained in a blog post. In education, that could mean expertise in instructional design, individual student preferences, or utilizing institutional data to offer relevant insights.

Copilot Chat includes:

• Secure AI chat powered by GPT-4o (free);

• Agents accessible within the chat (cost-per-use measured in “messages,” with total cost calculated based on the sum of messages used by the institution); and

• IT controls, including enterprise data protection and agent management.

Users will have access to a wide range of pre-built agents from Microsoft, the company said, with teaching and learning agents to be released in the coming months. Microsoft also plans to publish open-source agents that will enable users to interact with course information and resources in learning management systems.

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