Copilot Warm Up Challenge

• Ensure participants are adept at utilising Copilot, accessing its three modes of conversation style, sidebar features when using Edge browser, and allowing it to read page content, including PDFs.

• Reflect on the quality of AI generated summaries and when they may be useful. 

• Solve technical issues for access and use.

• Discuss and share strategies for prompting generative AIs, in particular iterative or chain-of-thoughts prompting to get better results.

What you need

Setting it up

• Participants need to be able to login to Copilot with their institution’s credentials and preferably also access to Edge browser on their device. 

• Most participants will need guidance on how to allow Copilot to read their page content so that it can summarise PDFs. 

How long does it take?

• For asynchronous online play, we suggest it will take individual participants 5-10 minutes. We suggest leaving the game open for a week to 10 days depending on the game host’s availability for engagement.  

• For synchronous in person play, we suggest 5-10 minutes of individual game play and discussion time. 

How it works

1. Access Copilot, make sure you are logged in with your institution’s account. 

2. For those using Edge browser, locate and open the sidebar and find the Compose Function. 

3. Take a screenshot of your Copilot page showing you are using your institution’s account, ensuring the Compose pane is opened and visible on the screen.

4. Open a PDF and ask Copilot to write a summary. 

Suggested follow-up

• Compose a short reflection on your experience with Copilot. Consider questions such as: How user-friendly did you find the interface? Were you able to effectively use it to summarise a PDF?

• For asynchronous online, we suggest participants share their screenshots and reflections in an online forum. The game host should plan on reviewing submissions, encouraging engagements, and assigning points on the leaderboard if there’s one.

Where it works well

• The Copilot Warm Up Challenge is effective for easing participants into using generative AIs and removing fear and uncertainty in using a new technology. It serves as a foundation for further exploration of generative AI capabilities.

• This game is best played as individuals, as playing the game will enable them to use generative AI on their own in the future. However, it can also be played in pairs so that participants can help each other. 

• Consider providing example prompts for participants who are unfamiliar with conversational prompting. 

What to watch out for

• Generative AIs are under constant development and interface or branding may change with little notice. Participants may become confused if guidance deviates from the user interface they are seeing due to platform updates. 

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