Microsoft Viva Engage Features service description

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Viva Engage delivers high-value employee experiences by connecting leaders, communicators, and employees to build communities, share knowledge, and engage everyone. Viva Engage is currently available as an app in Microsoft Teams and will soon replace Viva Engage as the web, mobile, and endpoint experience that introduces new features related to community building, leadership engagement, knowledge sharing, self-expression, and events.

Elements

Viva Engage consists of the following elements.

Communities - A collection of members that serves the purpose of knowledge-sharing, employee experience, company-wide communications, and leadership engagement by providing a central place for your conversations, files, events, and updates. Communities can be public or private.

Announcements - If you’re a community administrator, you can also make announcements to share need-to-know information with the entire community. When you make an announcement in a community, members will be notified in both Viva Engage and in email. Members can change their notification preferences.

Home Feed - Keep up with what's happening in your organization. It's useful for finding out what your leadership team, coworkers, and people in other departments are talking about and seeing news from SharePoint.

Conversations - Post conversations, questions, polls, and praise in a community or on your storyline. Conversations include a media editor with options for attaching files, images, videos, GIFS, topics, and rich text editor (bullets, numbers, bold, italics, underline, etc.).

Virtual Events - Host a live video event including Viva Engage conversations and Q&A before, during, and after the event.

Q&A and Best Answers - Ask and respond to questions in Viva Engage communities to share knowledge with other members of the community. Members can upvote answers to highlight them for others. An answer can be marked Best Answer by the member who posted the question or by a community admin. The marked Best Answer appears at the top of the conversation, under the original question.

Storyline - Post and share to your followers and other interested people from within your organization to express yourself, amplify your work, and share what you’re passionate about. People interested in knowing what you have shared can go to your profile page in Viva Engage to view your storyline feed or follow storyline posts in Viva Engage, Viva Connections, Teams, and Outlook.

Leadership Corner* - A space for leaders to encourage open dialog and feedback across communities and teams through news, Ask Me Anything (AMA) events, surveys, and more.

Social Campaigns* - Dedicated spaces to drive important initiatives that support business goals and objectives.

Ask Me Anything (AMA) Events* - Modernize the standard townhall Q&A so leaders can hear what really matters to their employees. Ask Me Anything events are moderated question and answer periods where leaders and employees can ask and address questions.

Advanced Analytics* - Gain a deeper understanding of engagement and trends happening across Viva Engage with views for My Analytics, Org Analytics, My Answers, and Global Answers.

Answers in Viva** - Automatically organize content and expertise across your organization, making it easy for people to find information and put knowledge to work with this community-based Q&A experience.

* Licensed through Viva Suite

** Licensed through Viva Topics or Viva Suite

Viva Engage distributions

The elements of Viva Engage are available in varying levels to users of different Microsoft 365, Office 365, and Microsoft Viva plans. For more information on which plans include different elements, see Microsoft Viva plans and pricing.

Accessibility

Microsoft remains committed to the security of your data and the accessibility of our services. For more information, see the Microsoft Trust Center and the Office Accessibility Center.

System requirements

For system requirements for Office 365, the monthly subscription-based service available for business, education, and government organizations, see Microsoft 365 and Office Resources.

Supported Clients and integrations

The following are generally available today:

Prerequisite

Native mode

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