How to Access M365 Copilot with your FIT Account

IT Service article relates to: Email & G-Suite,Software & Applications

This article is intended for:

Faculty, Staff, Student

Last Updated: Friday, November 7, 2025

Instructions

IMPORTANT: Protect Privacy and Intellectual Property

Use of AI through non-enterprise accounts may result in public data exposure. FIT bears no responsibility whatsoever for potential claims or losses resulting from individuals entering, posting, sharing and/or linking their intellectual property or copyrighted content to or in either a public generative-AI text prompt, such as the consumer versions of Gemini, Copilot, or ChatGPT, or a public gallery, such as Adobe Firefly Gallery. Any public entering, posting, sharing and/or linking of confidential or protected information maintained by FIT may also violate FIT policies, as well as state and federal laws.

M365 Copilot versus Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot uses your FIT account and follows enterprise security, compliance, and data-protection rules. Its answers can draw on your work files, email, and calendar because they stay inside the protected FIT environment.

Copilot does not use FIT’s protections. It relies on public web data and personal-account settings, and it cannot access or safeguard FIT information the same way.

Access M365 Copilot though your Microsoft 365 (M365) Account from your computer
Sign into your Microsoft 365 (M365) account

Your M365 Account will open to M365 Copilot.

Access M365 Copilot using an FIT Lab Computer

1. Click on the Microsoft 365 Copilot icon on the desktop

2. Click on “Create or Sign in with a different account” Note: if you have signed in on the computer before you may see your profile information as an option to select.

3. Enter your FIT email address, then click Next. Follow the prompts to enter your FIT password and verify your identity using the Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication method you set for your account.

4. Click the “Yes, all apps” button. Keep “Allow my organization to manage my device” checked.

How to verify your are signed into your FIT Account for M365 Copilot

The Green Shield icon in the upper-right hand corner indicates Enterprise data protection.

When you click on your profile photo in the bottom-left corner you will be able to see the following details to confirm you are signed into your FIT account:

Your FIT email address under your Profile Name
“Fashion Institute of Technology” listed above your profile photo

If the URL is Copilot.com then you are not using your FIT account. The enterprise version of Copilot is M365 Copilot.

Note: to see all details you may need to click on the “Expand Navigation” icon located in the top left of the screen.