Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Enhance your productivity with our advanced AI tools. These services streamline tasks, improve efficiency, and support your everyday activities.

91��ɫ data must not be entered into public AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or similar services. This includes prompts, documents, or any content containing confidential, proprietary, or sensitive University information.

Only use AI tools (featured below) that have been sanctioned by 91��ɫ and approved for secure use.

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Overview

91��ɫ's Automated University Response Assistant (YU AURA) is a platform that empowers you to build custom AI solutions in minutes.

Easy Customization—YU AURA is a no-code, user-friendly platform that allows users to create and deploy AI agents in less than 5 minutes without technical knowledge or third-party vendors.
Comprehensive Support—YU AURA provides 24/7 support to 91��ɫ’s students, faculty, and staff.
Educational Innovation—Supports instructors with course design and delivery, merging AI innovation with education.
Advanced Technology—Combines pre-trained language models with advanced indexing technology to securely and efficiently access external information.
Enhanced Security—Utilizes multiple in-house servers to ensure robust data protection and maintain personal information privacy.

Current YU AURA Agents

AL Course Assistant—helps students navigate course logistics and resources.
Research GPT—accelerates literature review to support 91��ɫ researchers.
OUR Assistant—reduces administrative workload for advising staff using Generative AI-powered Tier-1 email support.
SAVY—Our award-winning bilingual GPT-powered AI student virtual assistant.
Procurement Optimization—optimizes procurement processes and services with AI.
Leonie—supports recruitment and assists prospective students.
LMS Integration—integrates AI into our LMS to help instructors design courses.

How do I access it?

Click here for YU AURA FAQs>>

Overview

Experience the cutting-edge capabilities of Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant powered by advanced language models. Copilot helps you get better answers, work more efficiently, and unlock your creativity.

Data Protection—Your personal and company data is not shared outside of 91��ɫ.
Content Generation—draft emails, documents, and other content directly within the Edge browser with AI-assisted writing tools.
Enhanced Browsing—navigate the web more efficiently with predictive search results and autofill capabilities.

Copilot is only available in your browser and does not include the Copilot Premium service, which extends to your Microsoft 365 apps.

How do I Access it?

Visit . Sign in with your Passport 91��ɫ ID to get access and . Check for a green shield to know you're using Copilot safely.

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Note: Microsoft is currently experiencing delays in fulfilling Copilot licence requests. As a result, newly requested licences may take longer than usual to be assigned to your account

Overview

Unlike the base Microsoft Copilot license, Copilot 365 integrates seamlessly across the entire Microsoft 365 suite. Integrating within and between your daily productivity apps, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams to amplify productivity, streamline collaboration, and boost creativity.

Integrated within your Apps: Unlike the browser-only free version, Copilot 365 extends across all Microsoft 365 applications, bringing AI-assisted insights, content generation, and data analysis directly into your workspaces.
Advanced Content Generation: Draft emails, generate presentations, and build detailed reports with intelligent suggestions tailored to your content needs.
Data Protection & Compliance: Keep your data safeguarded within 91��ɫ’s ecosystem with M365's robust security measures.
Seamless Workflow Integration: Copilot 365 enhances productivity through predictive task suggestions, workflow automation, and smart data summarization, delivering deeper insights.

How do I access it?

Submit Copilot premium license requests to uitadmin@yorku.ca

The premium Microsoft 365 Copilot license costs $290.43 CAD per user per financial year (May 1 - April 30).

The total cost is charged to your cost centre upfront, as there’s no monthly payment option. However, if you purchase mid-year, the fee is prorated monthly. For example, a license bought in November would cover six months (Nov - Apr) and cost half the annual price, $145.22 CAD.

Overview

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered coding assistant that helps developers write code faster and more efficiently. It provides inline code completions, generates full code blocks, and offers context-aware suggestions based on your project code.

Key capabilities include:

Inline code completions: Real-time suggestions as you type
Code generation: Create functions, boilerplate, and full code blocks from comments or descriptions
Copilot Chat: Conversational assistant for coding questions, explanations, debugging, and test generation
Autonomous agents: Let Copilot modify code, address issues, and create pull requests on your behalf
Documentation and comments: Generate README files, docstrings, and inline documentation

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Overview

Zoom AI Companion is an intelligent assistant built into the Zoom platform that helps improve meeting productivity and collaboration. It is now available for use across the university and has been approved for use with 91��ɫ content. Zoom AI Companion can:

Generate meeting summaries and action items
Help compose in-meeting chat responses
Provide real-time meeting insights
Assist with post-meeting follow-up and documentation

How do I access it?

Zoom AI Companion features are available but must be manually enabled before they can be used. Click here for

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Explore 91��ɫ’s curated learning package on Generative AI, designed to help staff and managers navigate AI tools in the workplace. The training includes session recordings, how-to guides, FAQs, and more. Get information on our primary AI tools: Microsoft Copilot, YU AURA, and AURA Chat.

Frequently Asked Questions

YU AURA FAQs

No, YU AURA doesn’t share your information with Microsoft or any other third parties. While YU AURA uses Microsoft GPT to help generate responses, the data you provide stays with YU AURA.

Copilot FAQs

The biggest difference is that Copilot offers basic AI tools only within the browser, while Copilot Premium expands these features across all Microsoft 365 applications for deeper integration and enhanced functionality.

Feature	Copilot (Web)	Copilot 365 (Integrated)
Platform Access	Browser-only	Full Microsoft 365 Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
Conversational AI	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Image Understanding	Yes	Yes
Image Generation	Yes	Yes
Multilingual Support	Yes	Yes
Empathetic Responses	Yes	Yes
Microsoft Apps Integration	No	Yes
Content Creation	Basic drafting, summarizing, and editing	Advanced drafting, summarizing, and editing across M365 apps
Data Analysis & Visualization	No	Yes, with advanced tools in Excel and other applications
Meeting Assistance	No	Yes, with summaries and catch-up on missed meetings
Cross-Application Intelligence	No	Yes, with contextual responses across M365 apps
Workflow Automation	No	Yes, using Copilot Studio

91��ɫU's Free Copilot license only covers using the Copilot through your browser, not within M365 applications. However, our premium license works with M365 apps.

No, Microsoft handles all chat data. With commercial data protection enabled, your data isn’t retained or used to train the models.

Enterprise Data protection is a security feature in Microsoft Copilot that ensures our organizational data stays safe. When enabled, it prevents chat data from being stored, shared, or used to train AI models. It’s designed to meet 91��ɫ's security and compliance needs and safeguard your personal data.

Enterprise Data protection is automatically enabled when you sign in to Copilot using your 91��ɫ account. This ensures that all data processed during your interaction remains secure and is not used for any purpose beyond your specific session. Your data isn’t saved, and no one outside your organization can access it.

No, IT admins can’t monitor or audit your activity or see your search history in Copilot. Microsoft doesn’t retain chat history when enterprise data protection is enabled.

No, Copilot doesn’t share your information outside of 91��ɫ.

You can upload files like documents, spreadsheets, and images into Copilot for analysis, summarization, and other tasks. Copilot supports many file types, and your data isn’t stored or used to train the model.

Yes, Copilot works with Microsoft Edge and other major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

Yes, Copilot uses Python for data analysis, coding, visualization, and more tasks. It even lets you see the code it generates for these tasks.

Copilot is a sanctioned 91��ɫU AI tool and can be used according to our M365 Data Guidelines.

Yes! As long as you are logged in and using Enterprise Data Protection, Copilot is a 91��ɫ-sanctioned tool and can be used for data analysis. See our M365 Data Guidelines for more information.

Zoom AI Companion FAQs

Yes. Zoom AI Companion has been reviewed and sanctioned for use at 91��ɫ. It operates within Zoom’s secure environment, and meeting data is not used to train AI models. You can safely use Zoom AI Companion with 91��ɫ-related content, including administrative and academic discussions.

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