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UTK provides Microsoft Copilot to all students, faculty, and staff at no extra cost through their existing Microsoft 365 accounts. It can summarize emails, draft documents, run Excel formulas using plain-language commands, and generate images — all within familiar Office apps.
Details
Microsoft Copilot is accessible inside Edge browser, Microsoft Teams, and Office 365 applications. UTK's OIT promotes it for tasks such as automated survey analysis, email summarization, and marketing campaign support. A higher-tier version — Microsoft Copilot EDU — is available to departments for an additional annual subscription fee. OIT explicitly advises users not to enter proprietary research data or sensitive university information into Copilot, directing them to UT Verse instead for privacy-sensitive work.
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Microsoft TeamsOutlookWordExcelPowerPointEdge browser
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Trace Foundation. (2026). University of Tennessee: UTK provides Microsoft Copilot to all students, faculty, and staff at no extra cost through their existing Microsoft 365 accounts. It can summarize emails, draft documents, run Excel formulas using plain-language commands, and generate images — all within familiar Office apps (data as of 2026-03-23) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/4348bfad-9770-4ce1-a30f-12bc863b4747. Accessed October 10, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/4348bfad-9770-4ce1-a30f-12bc863b4747
- Data as of
- March 23, 2026
- Last verified
- March 23, 2026
Other practices by University of Tennessee
ProductivityUTK offers Zoom AI Companion to all faculty, staff, and students in its university Zoom environment, providing opt-in AI features that automatically generate text summaries of meetings, highlight key moments in recordings, and support interactive whiteboard content creation.ProductivityIn March 2026, UTK deployed the UT AI Hub, a centralized platform giving all students, faculty, and staff free access to full paid versions of multiple leading AI models — including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Google Gemini, and Meta Llama — through a single secure university portal.ProductivityUTK offers Microsoft Copilot to all students, faculty, and staff at no extra cost through their existing Microsoft 365 accounts. It can summarize emails, draft documents, run Excel formulas using plain-language commands, and generate images — all within familiar Office apps.
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