Every student knows the feeling: the test is coming, the materials are everywhere— and the hardest part is not finding information, it is knowing where to start. There is a PDF from the teacher. Slides from last week. A Word document with notes. Each piece has value. But studying means turning all of it into something usable: what to review first, what connects together, what still feels fuzzy, and what to practice learning.

That is why we are excited to share two updates for education.

First, Copilot Notebooks is now rolling out to Copilot Chat users, available with Microsoft 365 Education licenses. Copilot Notebooks are AI-powered workspaces for a subject or group project built on reference materials—bringing together all context behind a topic in one place for you or your study group and Copilot to collaborate on. This addresses one of the top asks we have heard from Microsoft 365 Education customers: bring the power of Copilot Notebooks to the education licenses schools already use.

This education expansion builds on the broader Copilot Notebooks announcement that brings Notebooks to all education and enterprise Copilot Chat users, including new ways to work with your own materials in Notebooks with mind maps, Study Guides, and coming soon - the ability to create Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. You can read that announcement in the broader commercial Copilot Notebooks blog.

Copilot Notebooks are available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot web and desktop versions for Education users. Expect them to be available in Education tenants in the next two weeks. They will be available in OneNote in the weeks to follow.

Get started: Go directly to Copilot Notebooks at https://aka.ms/copilotnotebooks. Copilot Notebooks are located in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app waffle.  

Second, Copilot Notebook Study Guide is now generally available both for education and enterprise users. Study Guide is an AI-powered feature in Notebooks that turns the learning materials you provide into a complete, interactive study companion. Organized, editable, grounded in your references. Ready when you are.

For Education IT admins - what you need to know

Study guide lives inside Copilot Notebooks. Copilot Notebooks are available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Go directly to Copilot Notebooks at https://aka.ms/copilotnotebooks to start using Notebooks. Copilot Notebooks are located in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app waffle.

With this update, Copilot Notebooks are available to Microsoft 365 Education A1, A3, and A5 users.

Study guide is available for education users ages 13+. Student accounts need the right Age Group in Microsoft Entra ID, and K-12 students ages 13-17 need Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat enabled by an IT admin before they can use Copilot Notebooks and Study Guide.

No additional deployment is needed for Study Guide. Study Guide is rolling out to enterprise and education customers starting June 11. It may take a few days to show up in your account.

What Study guide does

Study Guide takes the materials learners already have and helps turn them into a collection of organized study topics and activities of your choice.

Drop in PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, or Excel files. Study Guide reads across those references, identifies the key ideas, and creates a multi-page study guide inside the notebook.

The important part: it is grounded in the sources you provide. It is not pulling random facts from the internet. Summary pages and Topic pages include citations back to the original materials, so learners can check where information came from and return to the source when something needs a closer look.

That matters for learning. It helps students stay connected to the actual course materials. It helps educators trust what students are practicing from turns citation-checking into a habit, not an afterthought.

 

What is available in Study guide

Study Guide creates materials that span all phases of learning: understand, practice, and test.

Understand: deepen your knowledge of the material

• Summary page: Start with a high-level overview of the materials you added. The Summary includes an overview, why the topic matters, key topics, a glossary, common misconceptions, and citations back to the source materials.
• Topic pages: Study Guide creates deeper pages for the major topics it finds in your content. These pages work like mini-chapters that cover content across all your references. They include explanations, sub-topic deep dives, worked examples, questions that make you think critically and analyze concepts, short exercises, and citations throughout.

Practice: strengthen recall, and make connections

• Flashcards: Study Guide generates interactive cards from the learner's materials. Learners can flip cards, use hints, and edit the set so the wording matches how they think about the concept.
  
• Fill in the blanks: Key terms are removed from important sentences, and learners choose from a set of distraction answers to complete sentences. It is especially useful for processes, and sequences of events where the order and relationships matter.
• Matching: Study Guide creates matching tiles that ask learners to connect related ideas: terms to definitions, causes to effects, structures to functions, or concepts to examples.

Test: check what is sticking

• Quiz: Study Guide creates a Microsoft Forms-powered quiz with questions generated from the materials. Learners can answer directly from the page, review results, and see explanations for multiple-choice answers. Results are private to the learner unless they choose to share them.
  

Every one of these formats is designed to move studying from passive review to active practice. Not just rereading or highlighting. Actually trying to remember, connect, explain, and check.

Study Guide supports 21 languages at launch: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English (US), Estonian, French (Canada), French (France), German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmal, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

That means students can study from the materials they already use, in the language they already learn in, without having to move everything into a separate tool.

For educators

A few ways you can bring Study guide to your students or use it yourself:

• Point learners to a specific study moment. "Before Friday's quiz, add this week's slides and generate flashcards" is more useful than "use AI to study."
• Encourage active practice. Flashcards, fill-in-the-blanks, matching, and quizzes help your students retrieve information from memory instead of only rereading it.
• Use citations as an AI literacy moment. Study Guide shows where information came from. That opens a natural classroom conversation about checking sources, verifying AI-generated content, and staying grounded in the material.
• Keep assessment separate from practice. Study Guide quizzes are for self-checking. They are not a gradebook, and quiz results are private unless a student chooses to share them.
• Keep building your own AI fluency. 

Study Guide is built with privacy, safety, and learner control in mind. Study Guide pages are private by default, stored in the learner's Microsoft 365 notebook, and can be edited or deleted by the learner. Prompts and outputs are not used to train AI models, and quiz results are private unless a learner chooses to share them.

Get started

• Use Copilot Notebooks with your Enterprise or Education account at https://aka.ms/copilotnotebooks 
• Learn more about Study guide

 

Anoo Padte is Principal Product Manager for AI in Education at Microsoft.

When an app fails to start on Azure App Service for Linux, one of the first things you need is visibility into what happened during startup. This can include container initialization, runtime setup, startup command execution, application output, and warmup probe results.

To make this easier, we have added new Azure CLI commands that let you list and view App Service startup logs directly from the command line.

List available startup logs

You can list startup logs for an app using:

az webapp log startup list \ --name <app-name> \ --resource-group <resource-group>

The output shows whether the startup attempt succeeded or failed, along with the instance name and log file size. This helps you quickly identify the right log file, especially when there are multiple startup attempts across different instances.

Show startup log content

To view the latest startup log, run:

az webapp log startup show \ --name <app-name> \ --resource-group <resource-group>

You can also view a specific log file by name:

az webapp log startup show \ --name <app-name> \ --resource-group <resource-group> \ --log-file-name <log-file-name>

The log content includes startup events from the platform and the application. For example, you can see the container image being pulled, the startup script being generated, the app command being run, and the warmup probe result.

In a successful startup, the log shows that the site startup probe succeeded and the site started successfully.

Failure logs are prioritized by default

When you run az webapp log startup show without specifying a log file name, the command automatically prefers failure logs from the most recent date.

This helps reduce the time spent looking for the right log when debugging startup failures. Instead of manually searching through multiple files, you can run one command and immediately see the most relevant failure details.

For example, if the app fails because the worker process does not start within the allotted time, the log shows the timeout details and the platform actions taken during startup cancellation.

Better hints for common startup failures

The command also includes improved handling for common failure scenarios, including runtime startup failures and container startup timeouts.

For example, if the app starts but does not respond on the expected port, the startup log may show application output such as:

listening on 3000 (wrong port)

while the platform is expecting the app to respond on a different port. This makes it much easier to understand why the warmup probe failed.

Slot support

The startup log commands also support deployment slots.

To list startup logs for a slot:

az webapp log startup list \ --name <app-name> \ --resource-group <resource-group> \ --slot <slot-name>

To show startup logs for a slot:

az webapp log startup show \ --name <app-name> \ --resource-group <resource-group> \ --slot <slot-name>

This is useful when debugging slot-specific startup issues before swapping traffic to production.

Summary

The new az webapp log startup commands make it easier to inspect startup behavior for Azure App Service for Linux apps directly from Azure CLI.

These commands are currently in preview. Try them out the next time you need to understand why your App Service Linux app did or did not start successfully.

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