GitHub Copilot is a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI to assist users of Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains integrated development environments by autocompleting code. This is a product incurring a monthly expense per license.
GitHub Copilot licenses are available to member of the Tufts Technology Services (TTS) under the Tufts Technology Service GitHub organization. There are a limited numbers of seats available. In order to request access to GitHub CoPilot, please send a ServiceNow request to it@tufts.edu with your GitHub username. You must also have approval from director or manager before requesting access to Copilot.
A member of the ESCP Team will be able to assign you a seat for GitHub Copilot. You will receive an email from GitHub when access is granted. See below.
As noted, GitHub Copilot is a license product and the University incurs a monthly cost. If it’s determined you don’t need this license, after requesting, please send an email to it@tufts.edu indicating that your seat is no longer required.
Example of the email sent from GitHub indicating access granted to Copilot:
