
Explore Viva Connections, a Microsoft Teams app that creates a personalized central hub to engage your organization. Learn to plan, configure, and launch the experience.
Explore Microsoft Viva Connections in Teams, a personalized dashboard that surfaces tasks, benefits, and resources, with an integrated SharePoint site as the heartbeat that delivers information relevant to your role.
Explore Viva Connections' three core components—dashboard, resources, and feed—and see how personalized cards, tasks, and SharePoint links streamline access to benefits, approvals, and news.
Plan Viva Connections by identifying key stakeholders and resources, and design a dashboard with default cards. Maintain the system with dedicated admins and ongoing feedback.
Discover how to configure Viva Connections by enabling global navigation and linking a SharePoint home site. Build and manage experiences with audience targeting and Microsoft 365 Admin Center steps.
Build and customize the Viva Connections dashboard by adding cards, configuring card size, and applying audience targeting. Preview on desktop and mobile to ensure content reaches the right users.
Employ testing best practices, update the global navigation with new links, display names, and audience targeting, and learn to boost and feature feed content from SharePoint News and Viva Engage.
Launch Viva Connections by testing with early adopters, using edge across platforms, and ensuring active links and cohesive visuals; track usage with SharePoint analytics and gather feedback for change management.
Learn how to use Microsoft Viva Connections to create a centralized hub where your employees can stay connected and access valuable organizational information and resources.
In Viva Connections Essentials, Microsoft certified trainer Tim Blake demonstrates how to use the Viva Connections app to foster communication and engagement within your organization. He explains how the three main components of Viva Connections operate and shows how to create cards for the Dashboard, display Resources, and add Resource links.
As Tim walks you through the steps, you’ll learn how to access and navigate Viva Connections and how to plan for and configure your site. Next, you’ll learn how to build a Dashboard and ways to influence the Feed. Finally, you’ll learn useful strategies for preparing to launch, including practices that can help your team adapt to using the app.
Join us to learn how your organization can benefit from utilizing Viva Connections!
Topics covered include:
Accessing Viva Connections from Teams
Describing the three main components and their functions
Planning content based on a needs assessment
Reviewing requirements and prerequisites for set up
Configuring the Viva Connections experience
Creating and modifying cards on the Dashboard
Setting up Resource links
Building Feed content
Developing a launch strategy
Monitoring site usage metrics
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