Using Copilot Securely

Microsoft Copilot is available for both University of Plymouth staff and students through the Edge Browser

Go to the search bar within the Edge browser
log in with your UoP email to access the secure version
Once logged in, a green tick in the shield indicates that it is secure and confidential
When logging in this way Copilot offers commercial data protection, safeguarding searches and data

When visiting a website, you can use Copilot to analyse it. This uses Bing data, and anything produced is not secure. This is fine for public websites, but we need to be mindful not to use this on anything secure.
The "attach file" option is recent, allowing us to upload files and ask Copilot to analyse them.The requests need to be detailed enough for Copilot to analyse them. To do this, go to the Copilot icon on the top right of the page.