Learning must be found easily at any time, and all learners and teachers have equitable access, regardless of culture, language, ability etc. 
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Rating: Works Well

• Accessibility standards:
  • Copilot is designed to work with screen readers. It uses text and speech to communicate with users, and does not rely on visual cues or gestures. Responses are formatted in clear and structured ways, using markdown elements and code blocks when appropriate.
    
    
• Cost of use for USask students:
  • Copilot is available to USask students, faculty, and staff at no additional cost through their USask account.
    
    
• Platform/device:
  • Copilot can be accessed through a web browser and supported Microsoft applications and mobile experiences.
    
    
• Offline Access:
  • The core functionality of Copilot requires internet access.

Learning is a process of meaning-making, constructed through learning with others, and as a part of an intentional, deliberate system within a course and across experiences.
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Rating: Serious Concerns

• Collaboration:  
  • Copilot is primarily designed for individual interaction with the AI and does not itself provide a collaborative learning environment.

• Sharing:  
  • There is no specific sharing functionality or integration with Canvas.

Learning is refined and extended through prompted and supported opportunities to focus on understanding and next steps.
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Rating: Works Well

• Reflection and revision:
  • Copilot supports iterative conversations in which learners can ask follow-up questions, request explanations or feedback, reconsider ideas, and revise their work. When intentionally incorporated into learning activities, it can support reflection, formative feedback, and identification of next steps.

Learning is refined and extended through prompted and supported opportunities to focus on understanding and next steps.
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Rating: Works Well

• Creating: 
  • Copilot can generate and revise content in response to user prompts. Learners can use it to brainstorm, develop, critique, and refine ideas and create new materials.

• File format:  
  • Copilot supports working with a range of common document, spreadsheet, presentation, image, text, and data file formats.

Learners create and control spaces for learning, understanding and retaining ownership, and purposefully choosing how and when they share.
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Rating: Moderate Concerns

• Archiving, saving, and exporting data:
  • Copilot-generated content can be copied and saved in other applications. Copilot interactions may also be retained according to Microsoft's enterprise data protection and organizational policies.
    
    
• Data privacy and ownership:
  • Microsoft does not claim intellectual property rights to either the user input or the Copilot output.  
  • When users access Copilot with their USask work or school account, enterprise data protection applies.
  • Prompts and responses are not used to train the underlying foundation models.
  • Users should follow USask Data Handling Guidelines for AI when deciding what information or files are appropriate to provide to Copilot.

• Bias 
  • Copilot may produce biased, inaccurate, or incomplete responses. Users should critically evaluate generated content and verify information using appropriate sources.

• Sign Up/Sign In:
  • Access via PAWS using your USask Microsoft account.
    
    
• Customization:
  • Users can direct and refine responses through prompts, follow-up questions, and the context they provide.

Learners need to work in a system that is fluid and requires a minimum number of steps in systems that are intuitive and integrated.
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Rating: Works Well

• Interface:
  • The interface is very easy to use as Copilot utilizes a chatbot interface. You simply type prompts into a text field (or speak prompts using a microphone) and Copilot responds within the chat window.
    
    
• Additional Downloads:
  • Copilot can be accessed through a web browser without requiring additional software. Microsoft also provides Copilot experiences through supported applications.
    
    
• Functionality:
  • Copilot functions well across all platforms.

• Environmental Impact:
  • Generative AI tools such as Copilot require computing resources and energy to generate responses. Users should consider whether GenAI is appropriate for the task and use it purposefully.

Learners exist in accessible networks, and connect to the experiences, concepts, people, and ideas that they need.
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Rating: Moderate Concerns

• Scale:  
  
  • Copilot can be used individually by students across a class, but it is not designed to create smaller learning groups or communities of practice within the tool.

• Communication Flexibility:  
  
  • Copilot provides a conversational interface for interacting with AI-generated content through multiple forms of media.

• Representation and inclusivity: 
  
  • Design neither supports nor impedes USask commitments to ohpahotân |oohpaahotaan and EDI.

Learning and feedback are iterative, and assessment comes from multiple sources, including self, peers, teachers, and outside experts.
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Rating: Serious Concerns

• Feedback:  
  
  • Copilot can provide immediate, iterative responses to learner prompts and can be used to generate questions, explanations, examples, and feedback for formative learning activities.
  • Learners can use this feedback as one source for reviewing and improving their work.
    

• Sources of Feedback:  
  
  • Copilot can generate AI responses to student-provided content, but it does not itself provide built-in mechanisms for peers, educators, and outside experts to provide feedback on learning.
    

• Learning Data:
  
  • Copilot does not provide educator-facing access to student learning data.