Great News! For those of you who have already been using Viva Connections for Education as part of our launch preview, and for those of you who have followed along in its development, Microsoft is happy to announce that Viva Connections for Education is now available to all customers as part of our Teams for Education offering. Read more about Viva Connections in our initial launch blog here.
A Home-Base for each Student
Microsoft Viva Connections for Education is a digital home that centralizes all the resources students need in one place, directly within Microsoft Teams. With intuitive design and easy access, the dashboard is personalized for each student’s individual needs, giving them a digital home where they can start and end each day—helping them stay connected to their educational institution at every step along their academic journey.
Students thrive when their academic and extracurricular resources are easily accessible. Equipped with customized cards for each student, the dashboard organizes their courses, assignments, extracurricular activities, tuition payments, internship opportunities, scholarship applications, and more.
Assignments and Courses Viva Cards
We are thrilled to announce the public availability of the Assignments and Courses Viva cards, a groundbreaking addition to the Viva Connections for Education platform. With the Assignments and Courses Viva card, students can easily view and access their course materials and see the upcoming and past due assignments, all from within their digital home.
Detailed view for Assignments and Courses
Tailored for each Academic Institution
Within Viva Connections for Education, students can access your institution’s intranet to collaborate on relevant content and files with their peers or educators, and connect to key third-party applications, such as your institution’s learning management system (LMS) or other internal services. In addition, dashboard cards are customizable for individual students based on their area of study, extracurricular interests, and other preferences, so that they can manage student life from one place.
With Viva Connections for Education, institutions can send targeted messages to their whole institution or subsets of students. Students can stay up to date on key news by scrolling through the Viva Connections for Education feed, helping them learn about club announcements, campus events, cafeteria menus, and more.
Together, these features help students feel connected to their academic institution whether they’re on campus, at home, or somewhere in between.
Getting Started is Easy – Try Viva Connections for Education Today
To help you get started, our team has created a number of materials that outline Viva Connections for Education and some key instructional documents to aid in the implementation for your institutions and classrooms.
Tools to Get You Started:
- Set up Viva Connections for Education: https://aka.ms/vce
- Add Assignments and Courses card to your dashboard: Overview of Viva Connections for Education | Microsoft Learn
- Read our adoption toolkit and establish your adoption plan.
- Visit the community driven GitHub repository and try out our FIVE code samples: Library Loans, Internships, Tuitions, Book a space, and Scholarships. Find the sample repository here. The source code can be found here.
- Stay up to date with the features on the Viva Connections Roadmap Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365
- Create more than one Connections experience in the same tenant.
- Microsoft Viva: Mobile Dashboard personalization:
We look forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences with Viva Connections for Education, so please feel free to comment below. As we get more input from customers and fans, we’ll share any additional information that may be helpful in along your journey.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/education-blog/microsoft-viva-connections-for-education-now-available-to-all/ba-p/3832809 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/education-blog/microsoft-viva-connections-for-education-now-available-to-all/ba-p/3832809 2023-05-30 13:00:00Z