From the course: Microsoft 365 Copilot Quick Tips

Understanding Copilot - Microsoft Copilot Tutorial

From the course: Microsoft 365 Copilot Quick Tips

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Understanding Copilot

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- [Instructor] Before we get into working with Copilot, I want to make sure that you have a good understanding of Copilot. The prereqs for it to work, how it works, and what it has access to. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is your AI assistant for the work that you do in Microsoft 365 apps. You will need to have a Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Microsoft 365 Business Premium licensing to add Copilot for Microsoft 365 to your plan. Here's how Copilot works. You interact with Copilot in a chat area of an app by entering a prompt. A prompt is a natural language question or instruction, just like you might say to me, but it's in an app such as Teams, Word or PowerPoint. You could say something like, "Summarize this doc into two paragraphs," or, "Summarize this doc into three bullet points." Copilot performs a pre-process known as grounding. This helps you to get more relevant answers. Then, Copilot takes the response and performs post-processing. This includes another grounding call to Microsoft Graph. And through security, privacy, compliance, and other AI checks, it then returns an answer to you in that same chat area of the app. Now let's jump into more productivity and creativity with the assistance of Copilot.

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