Do you know that you should utilize Copilot in Viva Have interaction to create extra partaking posts, and get personalised ideas methods to enhance your submit? Or that you simply simply can have a sparring dialog with AI if you find yourself occupied with posting a message to your group? Copilot in Viva Have interaction can assist you out because it grew to become usually accessible on the finish of April 2024, so this isn’t one thing actually new however as autumn advances it a superb to remind what you are able to do with Copilot in Viva Have interaction. I don’t write about Viva Have interaction a lot, however as I had some latest work involving Viva Have interaction it sparked the thought for this one. Right now Viva Have interaction integrates fairly properly with Microsoft Groups, and it permits a good way to create and foster communities together with Groups groups for bigger organizations.
Copilot in Viva Have interaction is your private AI assistant that may allow you to with submit creation and suggestions to enhance your on-line presence and engagement within the Have interaction Groups app or on the net. Copilot in Viva Have interaction is powered by massive language mannequin (LLM), that are a sort of expertise that may generate pure language textual content primarily based in your enter and context. Microsoft 365 Copilot is working GPT-4o already, so if Copilot in Viva Have interaction isn’t working that but it quickly will. With Copilot, you possibly can entry the facility and suppleness of LLMs, with Microsoft Accountable AI protections – proper inside your Viva Have interaction.
How Copilot in Viva Have interaction handles your information?
Identical to all Copilots in Microsoft 365, Copilot in Viva Have interaction doesn’t retailer or retain any of the textual content that you simply generate or edit with it. Your textual content or information shouldn’t be used to coach the mannequin.
It solely processes the textual content that you simply explicitly present to it, akin to if you sort within the Copilot field, click on on a suggestion, or ask for suggestions.
It respects your privateness and doesn’t share any of your textual content or information with third events. Copilot in Viva Have interaction additionally follows your group’s information governance insurance policies and settings, akin to information residency, retention, and deletion.
Learn extra the Study Information, Privateness and Safety for Copilot in Viva Have interaction.
It’s accessible worldwide for Viva Have interaction customers who’ve a premium license, which is obtainable with Viva Suite and Communities and Communications licenses. Listed here are the licensing choices for Copilot in Viva Have interaction:
Microsoft 365 Copilot + Viva Suite = You’ve Copilot in Viva Have interaction
Microsoft 365 Copilot + Viva Have interaction Communications & Communities = You’ve Copilot in Viva Have interaction
Viva Suite or Viva Have interaction Communications & Communities = You’ve Copilot in Viva Have interaction
When you have solely the Microsoft 365 Copilot license (no Viva Suite or Viva Have interaction C&C) then you’re lacking out Copilot in Viva Have interaction. Whereas it’s good that Copilot is obtainable in Viva Have interaction with Viva Suite and Viva Have interaction Communications & Communities, I discover it a bit odd that Microsoft 365 Copilot license alone doesn’t add Copilot to Viva Have interaction.
Copilot in Viva Have interaction is on by default. In case you meet the licensing necessities and also you don’t see it, it’s time to contact your IT Admins and ask why they’ve disabled it.
You may entry Copilot in Viva Have interaction anyplace you create posts: on the house feed, in a group, a marketing campaign, or in your storyline. Once you begin writing a brand new submit (or query, ballot or another Viva Have interaction submit sort) you possibly can open the Copilot. Viva Have interaction highlights to open Copilot fairly prominently if you find yourself writing the submit. The place you don’t see the Copilot, is that should you open your profile and begin writing a submit to your Storyline from there – in all probability a bug, since you possibly can click on Storyline from the left navigation and begin writing a submit with Copilot from there.
After clicking Open Copilot, you get a well-recognized view the place Copilot is on the facet of your submit.
You simply inform Copilot what you want. From the “sparkle” button you possibly can open the Immediate information with predefined prompts – I deal with these as shortcuts and concepts. You’ll find yourself utilizing your individual prompts for the more often than not, particularly when creating one thing distinctive. I can use Copilot additionally in Finnish, as it’s one among languages Microsoft 365 Copilot 365 helps.
And as with Copilot usually, I can proceed the dialog to tune the response.
And if you find yourself pleased with Copilots output, simply click on + Add to submit and Copilot will add the textual content to your draft. If you have already got textual content there, it stays as textual content is added and it doesn’t substitute something when used this manner.
After including the textual content, Copilot will notify and remind you about to Maintain it genuine with some ideas.
Present me how is a helpful motion, as you possibly can simply attempt it out to see what Copilot suggests.
I took the benefit of Copilot and let it invent my private story to be added. This is only one instance, how one can present only a minimal info and use AI to create the textual content for you shortly in all Copilots – not simply in Copilot in Viva Have interaction.
After every response from the Copilot, you too can see shortcuts to “Are you able to present a distinct response?” and “Attempt once more, however this time..”.
Let’s add that to our textual content. Discover, when clicking Add to submit you get a reminder about conserving the textual content genuine.
Now, I might make the most of Copilot extra to get some suggestions. Notice: these are simply concepts for you – be at liberty to make use of your individual phrases when asking questions from Copilot!
It wasn’t the worst record of questions it predicted. Skipping these, you could have in fact the total freedom to edit your draft as you want. Copilot is simply offering you drafts and ideas.
Don’t drop studying, there may be extra! If you choose a textual content in your submit, you possibly can inform Copilot to concentrate on that chosen textual content solely.
And you too can return the main focus to all textual content with a click on of a button or by urgent the shortcut CTRL+ (in US keyboards a minimum of, I didn’t but discover the shortcut for Finnish keyboard structure).
Now, let’s get a extra click-bait starter line.
Discover that you’ve got the choice so as to add the brand new textual content to the submit, or straight substitute your choice with the generated textual content.
With a little bit of edits, we have now a submit prepared for publishing.
The most recent addition to Copilot in Viva Have interaction is the Copilot adoption group, which grew to become accessible July 2024. The Copilot adoption group is a group that may be set as much as assist folks to be taught extra about Copilot in Viva Have interaction, share their experiences, ask questions, and get ideas and greatest practices from different customers and consultants. It may well additionally comprise studying sources, akin to movies, articles, and programs, to assist staff get essentially the most out of Copilot in Viva Have interaction.
Setting the group up is simple. Simply create a brand new group with the wizard if you see it at Viva Have interaction.
You get default choices, which you’ll change as per to your wants.
And that’s it. You’ve a base group for driving Copilot Adoption.
In brief, Copilot Adoption Group is rather like another group in Viva Have interaction. The added half was a wizard that setups up the group and there may be additionally a banner “Welcome to your new group” seen, that reminds to Pin sources, Add members, Evaluate steered and Write your first submit.
What’s cool, an ordinary characteristic in Viva Have interaction communities, is the Clever importer. You may simply usher in questions and solutions from Phrase, PDF or .txt file. The Clever importer is a part of Viva Solutions, and is there in case you have a Viva Suite or Communities & Communications license. So, in case you have Copilot in Viva Have interaction, you even have the Clever importer.
Notice: Copilot Adoption Group doesn’t do the adoption job for you, it’s only a group you could arrange simply and begin utilizing it!
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