{"id":5882,"date":"2024-06-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2024-09-18T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T19:38:31","slug":"enhancing-copilot-for-microsoft-365-and-microsoft-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2024\/06\/enhancing-copilot-for-microsoft-365-and-microsoft-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, we\u2019re announcing new capabilities built to help educators and students save time, create impactful content, and deepen learning experiences within Copilot for Microsoft 365. We\u2019ll also share over a dozen updates including global expansion of Khanmigo for Teachers, Minecraft Education Lesson Crafter, Learning Accelerators and Teams for Education news, free access to Figma through our new partnership, and more value coming to Microsoft Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re thrilled to share over 20 updates and resources and show them in action next week at ISTELive 24 in Denver, Colorado, US. Join us at the show to learn more and hear about the latest from Microsoft Education at our booth and in dozens of sessions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enhancing Copilot for Microsoft 365 in education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve loved seeing the early adoption and benefits from education institutions<\/a> already using Microsoft Copilot<\/a>, our no-cost AI-powered chat with data protection, and Copilot for Microsoft 365<\/a>, an add-on for AI assistance integrated with the apps you use every day. We\u2019re excited to now bring even more value to education in Copilot for Microsoft 365 with a new set of capabilities designed for relevant and powerful use by educators and students. These features will be included in Copilot for Microsoft 365 and will be in private previews over the coming months. Education institutions with any academic license are eligible to purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365, with no minimum, for their faculty, staff, and students aged 18 and older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educators will be able to use a guided content generation<\/strong> experience to easily kickstart materials like assignments, lesson plans, lecture slides, and more based on pedagogical requirements across Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, Word, and PowerPoint. This includes the ability to align content to over five million education standards from 35 countries for both public and private institutions through EdGate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guided content generation with education standards in Microsoft Teams for Education. Visuals subject to change.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, educators now have access to quiz generation through Copilot in Forms <\/strong>which allows them to generate quizzes and correct answers, support students with step-by-step solutions for each question, and easily assign quizzes to classes in Teams for Education. Educators can use Copilot to generate quizzes based on their own files or pasted text. Later this year, educators will be able to align the quizzes to education standards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quiz generation through Copilot in Microsoft Forms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Our recent research<\/a> found that students are already using AI to quickly receive initial feedback on their work. We\u2019re excited to help educators do the same in meaningful ways with suggested<\/strong> AI feedback<\/strong>. Educators review, edit, or discard suggested student feedback, which is based on individual student progress, rubrics selections, or assignment instructions. Educators can start by selecting initial rubric scores and then add the corresponding draft feedback directly into student Word documents in the form of comments or share overall feedback in a Teams Assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suggested AI feedback, based on educator input, instructions, rubrics, drafted through comments in Microsoft Word. Visuals subject to change.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

AI has the potential to further support students by accelerating and deepening their learning process in engaging ways. Interactive practice experiences<\/strong> will be available for educators to create and share with their students, or for students to generate on their own to help them save time and increase subject matter retention on their specific learning content. They\u2019ll be able to use Copilot functionality across Microsoft 365 apps like OneNote to easily build study materials like flashcards and guided chat experiences based on their learning content. The guided chat experience is designed to help learners walk through and engage with the content to ask questions, get immediate feedback, and test their knowledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To better support educators and students with their daily tasks, we\u2019ll be launching built-in learning and teaching extensions <\/strong>to help guide them through relevant activities and provide contextual, persona-based support in Copilot. They\u2019ll see custom prompts to get started with tasks like building an interactive lecture or receiving initial feedback on their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learning extension built into Copilot to support students and provide coaching. Visuals subject to change.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For staff, educators, and students to be able to maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365, it\u2019s essential to have access to relevant data and files. We\u2019re introducing education data integration<\/strong> to generate more helpful responses, insights, and content based on personal and organizational information. This will include data from Teams for Education<\/a> such as Classwork, Assignments, Grades, class rosters, and more. We\u2019ll also interoperate data from Learning Management Systems (LMS) in the future for simpler, connected, experiences across platforms including many of these new AI-powered capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Education data integration from Teams for Education shown in Microsoft Word. Visuals subject to change.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Read more about guided content generation, standards-alignment, suggested AI feedback, interactive practice experiences, learning and teaching extensions, and education data integration in the June Edition of What\u2019s New in Microsoft EDU<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting started on your AI journey for free<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To help get started on your AI journey, we\u2019re excited to continue offering free tools and resources. Read about products available at no cost for educators and students like Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and more in our recent blog on our free AI offers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month we announced that Khanmigo for Teachers<\/strong> is free for all US educators thanks to our new partnership with Khan Academy<\/a>. We\u2019ve heard from educators around the world who look forward to using Khanmigo for Teachers, and we\u2019re excited to share that we\u2019ll be expanding free availability globally in the coming weeks. Educators can sign up to be notified regarding availability in their country<\/a>. Khanmigo for Teachers is an AI-powered teaching assistant that helps streamline class prep with no prompting required. Learn more from our Khanmigo for Teachers Quick Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minecraft Education will be previewing its new Lesson Crafter web tool at ISTE, which will be available for free in the coming months. Lesson Crafter allows educators to generate custom easy-to-teach lesson plans for Minecraft Education tailored to the needs of their learners on any topic and age range. Lesson Crafter will make it easier to get started teaching with Minecraft and give more teachers the opportunity to bring fun, immersive game-based learning into their classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n

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New Minecraft Education Lesson Crafter coming soon. Visuals subject to change.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In addition to these free tools, we believe in the importance of building a foundation of AI literacy for everyone. Get started today with the following resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n