Microsoft Copilot is a smart AI chat assistant that can help with tasks like web search, writing content, creating images, re-writing content, and more.
Category: Developing
The Azure Information Protection client for Windows helps you keep important documents and emails safe from people who shouldn’t see them, even if your email is forwarded or your document is saved to another location. You can also use this client to open documents that other people have protected by using the Rights Management protection technology from Azure Information Protection.
AI for learning
This short course is designed to help students at Newcastle University develop their Artificial Intelligence literacy and get the best out of popular AI tools. It provides practical advice, examples and resources to allow you to use generative AI productively and responsibly as part of your learning journey at Newcastle University.
AI for learning course (about 1-2 hours).
NU Reflect is a system designed by the University to support students’ reflective learning, as well as offer the tools to support Personal Tutoring. Incorporating reflection in programmes and modules provides an effective way to support students to understand their own learning processes, and to develop their awareness of their own skills and abilities and evidence these, applying theoretical knowledge to real experiences and supporting employability.
The Azure Virtual Desktop Service (AVD) gives secure access to University software, your files and protected websites. It’s the best way to access software during teaching sessions and private study. You can connect from anywhere, using most devices, including your PC, laptop, tablet or Chromebook. You’ll need a browser and an internet connection.
Azure Virtual Desktop (up to half an hour).
Rocket is Newcastle University’s institution-wide HPC (high performance computing) service. Rocket is open to anyone at the University whose computations can be run on Linux and are too large, long or numerous to be accommodated on a single desktop machine.
The Linux Software Mirror (FTP Mirror) service provides a local repository of popular Linux distributions and update packages.
Linux software mirror (under 10 minutes).
The Software Development Toolkit is available to all students and staff. It provides a robust and secure means to store source code and manage changes to development projects, as well as project management and Continuous Integration tools.
Your filestore is accessible via various remote network services so that you can use it from anywhere on the Internet. Some services work on all types of Computers while others are restricted to specific platforms.