Do you know that you should use Copilot in Viva Have interaction to create extra partaking posts, and get customized recommendations tips on how to enhance your submit? Or that you just simply can have a sparring dialog with AI when you’re enthusiastic about posting a message to your group? Copilot in Viva Have interaction may also help you out because it turned usually out there 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 nicely with Microsoft Groups, and it permits an effective 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 assist you with submit creation and proposals to enhance your on-line presence and engagement within the Have interaction Groups app or on the internet. Copilot in Viva Have interaction is powered by giant language mannequin (LLM), that are a kind of know-how that may generate pure language textual content primarily based in your enter and context. Microsoft 365 Copilot is operating GPT-4o already, so if Copilot in Viva Have interaction isn’t operating that but it quickly will. With Copilot, you may entry the facility and adaptability of LLMs, with Microsoft Accountable AI protections – proper inside your Viva Have interaction.
How Copilot in Viva Have interaction handles your knowledge?
- Similar to all Copilots in Microsoft 365, Copilot in Viva Have interaction doesn’t retailer or retain any of the textual content that you just generate or edit with it. Your textual content or knowledge just isn’t used to coach the mannequin.
- It solely processes the textual content that you just 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 knowledge with third events. Copilot in Viva Have interaction additionally follows your group’s knowledge governance insurance policies and settings, akin to knowledge residency, retention, and deletion.
Read more the Learn about Data, Privacy and Security for Copilot in Viva Engage.
It’s out there worldwide for Viva Have interaction customers who’ve a premium license, which is on the market with Viva Suite and Communities and Communications licenses. Listed below are the licensing choices for Copilot in Viva Have interaction:
- Microsoft 365 Copilot + Viva Suite = You will have Copilot in Viva Have interaction
- Microsoft 365 Copilot + Viva Have interaction Communications & Communities = You will have Copilot in Viva Have interaction
- Viva Suite or Viva Have interaction Communications & Communities = You will have Copilot in Viva Have interaction
If in case 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 on the market 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 the event 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. Whenever you begin writing a brand new submit (or query, ballot or every other Viva Have interaction submit sort) you may open the Copilot. Viva Have interaction highlights to open Copilot fairly prominently when you’re writing the submit. The place you don’t see the Copilot, is that in case you open your profile and begin writing a submit to your Storyline from there – most likely a bug, since you may 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 aspect of your submit.
You simply inform Copilot what you want. From the “sparkle” button you may open the Immediate information with predefined prompts – I deal with these as shortcuts and concepts. You’ll find yourself utilizing your personal prompts for the more often than not, particularly when creating one thing distinctive. I can use Copilot additionally in Finnish, as it’s one in every of languages Microsoft 365 Copilot 365 supports.
And as with Copilot usually, I can proceed the dialog to tune the response.
And when you’re proud of 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 suggestions.
Present me how is a helpful motion, as you may simply strive 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 rapidly in all Copilots – not simply in Copilot in Viva Have interaction.
After every response from the Copilot, you may as well see shortcuts to “Are you able to present a unique 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 retaining the textual content genuine.
Now, I may make the most of Copilot extra to get some suggestions. Word: these are simply concepts for you – be happy to make use of your personal phrases when asking questions from Copilot!
It wasn’t the worst listing of questions it predicted. Skipping these, you may have in fact the total freedom to edit your draft as you want. Copilot is simply offering you drafts and recommendations.
Don’t drop studying, there’s extra! If you choose a textual content in your submit, you may inform Copilot to deal with that chosen textual content solely.
And you may as well 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 the choice so as to add the brand new textual content to the submit, or instantly substitute your choice with the generated textual content.
With a little bit of edits, we now have a submit prepared for publishing.
The newest addition to Copilot in Viva Have interaction is the Copilot adoption group, which turned out there July 2024. The Copilot adoption group is a group that may be set as much as assist individuals to be taught extra about Copilot in Viva Have interaction, share their experiences, ask questions, and get suggestions and finest practices from different customers and consultants. It will probably additionally comprise studying assets, 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 will have a base group for driving Copilot Adoption.
In brief, Copilot Adoption Group is rather like every other group in Viva Have interaction. The added half was a wizard that setups up the group and there’s additionally a banner “Welcome to your new group” seen, that reminds to Pin assets, Add members, Assessment recommended and Write your first submit.
What’s cool, a regular 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 Intelligent importer is a part of Viva Solutions, and is there you probably have a Viva Suite or Communities & Communications license. So, you probably have Copilot in Viva Have interaction, you even have the Clever importer.
Word: Copilot Adoption Group doesn’t do the adoption job for you, it’s only a group which you can arrange simply and begin utilizing it!
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