Features
UT Verse
The UT Verse is a chat-based, AI-powered platform specific to the University of Tennessee community. This is UT’s generative AI chat, where you can have AI conversations about topics geared toward our internal audiences, university business, and research. Use UT Verse for your UT-specific AI conversations, including conversations about your research and proprietary university data.
Microsoft Copilot Chat
Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered platform that searches for information, creates content, and communicates with others. It will provide relevant and up-to-date results from various sources, generate original and engaging content, and assist with writing & editing your content. Bing Chat Enterprise will also help in locating additional information on your topic. Use Microsoft Copilot for general AI conversations that do not include conversations about your research or proprietary university data. You can write prompts for creating assignments, media campaigns, looking up Excel commands, and more..
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft Applications
The version of Copilot that directly integrates with Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is now available for an annual fee. Licensing costs and the purchase form are available at tiny.utk.edu/ms-license.
Teams Premium
Teams Premium builds on the standard Teams experience by introducing advanced features that support a more productive and secure collaboration environment. It benefits faculty and staff managing large meetings, virtual appointments, or webinars. The original announcement is online at oit.utk.edu/news/microsoft-teams-premium-coming-march-3/.
Key Features
- AI-Powered Meetings: Automatically generates meeting notes, recommended tasks, and personalized highlights—even if you miss the meeting.
- Customization: Offers branded meetings, organizational backgrounds, and personalized webinar experiences.
- Advanced Security: Includes watermarks, sensitivity labels, end-to-end encryption, and controls over who can record.
- Virtual Appointments: Streamlines appointment management and provides analytics to track performance.
- Immersive Experiences: Supports town halls, onboarding, and other large-scale events with Microsoft Mesh 3D environments.