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Discover how DSA is embracing AI responsibly—using approved tools like Microsoft Copilot to boost productivity while protecting university data. Learn how clear guidance, security-first practices, and a new AI Community of Practice are helping Student Affairs move forward together.
Personal devices make it easier to stay connected to Texas A&M work—but they also come with shared responsibility. Learn how to use BYOD safely and responsibly while protecting university data, privacy, and compliance.
Learn how DSA IT’s evolving risk assessment program is strengthening security, compliance, and resilience across Student Affairs. Explore what’s changed since 2025 and what departments can expect as risk management becomes more structured, collaborative, and proactive.
Microsoft 365 Copilot training shows users how to boost everyday productivity through hands-on practice using Copilot Chat, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, including advanced features like Agent Mode, custom instructions, file grounding, and Copilot Pages. The course also teaches how to leverage specialized agents such as Researcher and Analyst to automate tasks, improve insights, create multimedia content, and confidently integrate AI into daily workflows—ideal for all Copilot users and learning‑and‑development professionals.
Your workstation will undergo a weekly maintenance window to keep it secure, updated, and performing reliably. To ensure updates apply correctly, restart your computer at the end of each workday and leave it powered on and connected over the weekend.
Technology Services – Student Affairs is making changes to our weekend maintenance policy. Starting January 17th, 2026, a new weekly maintenance window will be introduced during which all managed workstations will receive scheduled updates and restarts every Friday and Saturday at midnight.
This course teaches advanced GitHub Copilot prompting by starting with the basics and progressing to conversational, multi-turn workflows that you refine iteratively and evaluate for better outcomes. You’ll learn to supply rich context across multiple files and open editors to improve code accuracy, while practicing real-world tasks like refactoring and generating code directly from API documentation.
This course explains how Excel Copilot uses AI to automate tasks like preparing data, creating formulas, profiling datasets, and sorting and filtering information. It also introduces the COPILOT function, showing how to use AI directly in cell formulas for tasks such as summarizing text, classifying content, and generating sample data with natural language prompts.
This course, taught by Jess Stratton, demonstrates how Microsoft 365 Copilot can streamline your workflow by helping you chat with your data, create and edit content across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, and securely summarize information. By learning to use Copilot’s AI‑driven features, you can boost productivity, creativity, and focus while keeping your work data protected.
Texas A&M is transitioning to a new Adobe licensing model to reduce costs and improve access. The update includes a grace period through November 4–5, 2025, and introduces streamlined options for Acrobat Pro, Adobe Express, and Creative Cloud.