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Published 16 Jun 2024· via news.microsoft.com· News article

University of Sydney launches AI agents for personalized student and staff support

University of Sydney · Education · Australia

Headline result

The source does not publish a single comparable figure. Reported results are listed below.

Summary

The University of Sydney has developed 'Cogniti', an Azure-based AI assistant platform, to provide scalable academic and administrative support to its students and staff. Educators can create their own AI chatbot agents linked to specific course materials, enabling personalized interaction for thousands of students directly within the learning management system. Staff use a generative AI policy navigator also powered by Microsoft's Information Assistant accelerator to quickly access over 360 staff policies, improving operational efficiency. The solution demonstrates significant uptake across hundreds of units, thousands of conversations, and international collaboration with other universities.

The problem

  1. 01Needed to scale personalized academic and administrative support for thousands of students.
  2. 02Staff and students found navigating extensive academic and policy documentation time-consuming.
  3. 03Manual workload for educators hindered productivity across hundreds of courses.

What they built

  1. 01Developed Cogniti, an Azure-based platform for educators to create custom AI chatbot agents embedded in LMS.
  2. 02Deployed an AI policy navigator using Microsoft’s Information Assistant accelerator for fast access to staff policies.
  3. 03Provided seamless, university-managed AI support, with real-time feedback options and analytics.

Reported results

  1. 01Over 600 AI agents created since launch.
  2. 0231,500+ conversations with more than 10,000 users.
  3. 03Cogniti in use across 300+ units of study (expected to double).
  4. 04Significant productivity gains for educators and personalized feedback for students.
  • Scaled personalized student and staff support
  • Created customizable AI chatbot platform
  • Deployed AI policy navigator
  • Improved operational efficiency and feedback

Source

news.microsoft.com

News article · 16 Jun 2024

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How this deployment compares

Computed from the library · data 10 Nov 2026

This is the only University of Sydney deployment in the library. It is one of 29 student support deployments, 17 of them in Education.

University of Sydney in the library

The only University of Sydney deployment in the library

Still referencedThe source is still online, but no newer University of Sydney record has appeared yet.

Same pattern, whole library

One of 29 student support deployments

  • Education accounts for 17 of them (59%), more than any other industry.
  • 4 records of this pattern came before it; 18 have been published since.
  • Only 9 of the 29 put a number on the result (31%).
  • Distinctive claim: Better decisions & insight outcomes are reported by only 4 peers (14%).
Provider mix
  • Microsoft86%
  • GCP7%
  • AWS7%
Most-used technology
  • Azure OpenAI 10
  • Copilot 4
  • Azure AI 4
  • Copilot Studio 4
  • Azure AI Search 3
  • Power Automate 3

Outlined: used in this record.

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Student support analysis

How we checked this record

Evidence tier: verified

A primary source with a named customer and a supported deployment status.

Named organization
University of Sydney
Who published the source
A third party (press or analyst)
Deployment status
Production (confidence 95%)
Quantified result
The source reports no figure
Summary checked against source
4 / 5 agreement
Source link
Online at last check

Last re-checked 13 Jun 2026.

This record is evidence for

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