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UTK 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.
Details
Microsoft Copilot is accessible inside the Edge browser and via Office 365 web applications. A higher-tier version — Microsoft Copilot integrated directly with Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint — 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 or the UT AI Hub instead for privacy-sensitive work. As of March 2025, UTK also introduced Microsoft Teams Premium, which adds AI-powered meeting features including automatically generated meeting notes, recommended tasks, and personalized highlights for licensed faculty and staff.
Products affected
Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft TeamsMicrosoft Teams PremiumOutlookWordExcelPowerPointEdge browser
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Trace Foundation. (2026). University of Tennessee: UTK 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 (data as of 2026-04-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/ba1e610d-1d3b-4651-a29b-580a31198daa. Accessed September 7, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/ba1e610d-1d3b-4651-a29b-580a31198daa
- Data as of
- April 22, 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.OtherIn February 2025, the UT Board of Trustees adopted a formal AI policy (BT0035), required by Tennessee state law, that sets the rules for how AI can be used in teaching and coursework across all UT campuses. Each instructor must declare one of three positions on AI use for every course they teach.
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