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Anoo Padte demonstrates an administrator-controlled mode rolling out globally from mid-November to mid-December.
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- 3:36Study and Learn offers interactive activities and step-by-step coaching, demonstrated with a projectile-motion problem.
- 5:55Student setup includes identifying the education tenant and setting student age categories.
- 10:06An admin-center toggle preselects Study and Learn and locks access to that agent.
- 14:06Padte gives a global rollout window from mid-November to mid-December; the setting requires administrator action.
- 17:50Lockdown covers Copilot, the Edge/Bing sidebar, Teams and Outlook.
- 20:00Premium Copilot experiences in Word, Excel and PowerPoint are excluded from the restriction.
Students can be given Copilot Chat without being given the whole menu of agents. That is the practical change at the center of Microsoft Education's only new upload, a product webinar showing schools how to restrict access to Study and Learn.
Presenter Anoo Padte, a Microsoft Education product manager and former math and physics teacher, demonstrates flashcards, quizzes and step-by-step coaching on projectile motion. She describes the agent as a tutor designed to build understanding rather than simply hand over answers. This is Microsoft's own walkthrough of its education software, with Mike Tholfsen appearing in an embedded setup demonstration.
The crucial switch arrives about ten minutes in, inside the Microsoft 365 admin center. Schools can either make tutoring the preselected experience or lock students into it entirely. Padte also draws a useful boundary: system administrators control the setting, not individual teachers. The restriction covers surfaces including Teams and Outlook, but excludes premium Copilot experiences in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
The webinar has drawn around 500 views and is the busiest of the channel's highlighted uploads right now. October's product roundup and a hands-on Copilot Notebooks and Learning Zone session supply the other continuing activity, keeping the focus firmly on classroom AI.
Subscribers held steady over the week, while the channel added roughly 13,000 views. Daily viewing is a little above its usual pace. Among nearby company channels, Apple Developer is seeing a more pronounced lift, while AWS Events is close to its normal rhythm. For Microsoft Education, this week's contribution is a specific administrative choice: how much of Copilot students can access.
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Who can control the tutoring-only setting demonstrated in the webinar?
Padte explains that the lock is controlled by system administrators rather than teachers.