Viva Connections is the gateway to your organization’s employee experience. It is built directly into Microsoft Teams and designed to create connection and drive alignment to empower employees – from information workers to frontline and deskless employees. Now, admins can enable, configure, and deploy the Viva Connections app directly from the Teams App Store, just like any other app in Teams.

Microsoft Viva Connections is your gateway to a modern engagement experience designed to keep everyone engaged and informed. Viva Connections gives everyone a personalized destination to discover relevant news, conversations, and the tools they need to succeed.

Viva Connections is:

• A branded application experience in Microsoft Teams that is optimized to enable experiences for information workers and frontline workers
• A gateway to employee experiences, with the ability for you to curate the content and tools you want to deliver through quick access to data and tasks, relevant news, communications, people, and resources
• Built on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer

Viva Connections is one of four modules that make up the Microsoft Viva platform:

• Connections: This module is the gateway to the employee experience. It provides timely and relevant content and news, surfaces critical tasks and actions, and fosters connections between people.
• Insights: This module gives employees, managers, and leaders data-driven insights that help everyone work smarter and thrive.
• Topics: This module organizes content and expertise across systems and teams to deliver just-in-time knowledge in the apps people use every day.
• Learning: This module enables discovery, sharing, and engagement in learning to grow personally and professionally.

Viva Connections Dashboard

The Viva Connections Dashboard enables you to create a curated experience using Dashboard cards that give your employee’s access to their most critical content and tools. These cards are designed to enable quick task completion either by interacting with a card directly or by opening a quick view in the Dashboard. Think of the Viva Connections Dashboard as a digital toolset for your employees. The Viva Connections Dashboard is available on mobile platforms (iOS, Android) in the Viva Connections Teams app, and on the desktop as a web part. This web part can be integrated into a SharePoint Home site, which then is exposed as part of the Viva Connections for Desktop experience in Teams.

Anatomy of a dashboard

A dashboard is made of medium-sized and large-sized cards which users can interact with to get information or complete a task.

Users can select cards or click the buttons on cards to do things like:

• Displaying a quick view with more information or an input form
• Navigating to a SharePoint page
• Accessing a Teams app
• Accessing a site in the browser

A card can also reflect dynamic content that refreshes based on a user action or other event. For example, users can see new tasks assigned to them when they open the dashboard. As the users mark the tasks as complete, the card updates to reflect their new number of tasks.

The dashboard experience has been designed to be consistent across mobile platform and desktop, but there are some differences: