Microsoft Viva: Content consumption in Viva Learning

User can consume learning content from Microsoft Learn, and Microsoft 365 training within the Viva Learning app.

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Microsoft Viva: Recommend learning content and track completion progress

Recommend a learning course to one or more individuals, with options to set a due date for completion and capture additional information via the ‘notes’. For all recommendations, the recommender can view reported completion progress of each of the recommendees. Recomendees can view recommendations made to them along with information of who recommended, notes from the recommender and Due date. As content is consumed, recomendees can update status of the recommendation to in-progress or Completed. Users get notifications for new recommendations, notifications for recommendations approaching due date and notifications for overdue recommendations.

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Microsoft Viva: Briefing email for Government Community Cloud

The daily briefing email- a personalized, actionable briefing email from Microsoft Viva, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox to help you start the day on track and stay on top of tasks, will be available for Government Community Cloud (GCC).
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/personal/briefing/be-overview

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Microsoft Viva: Learning content discovery based on user’s interests

Users will be able to discover engaging learning opportunities by picking and saving their interests. Once interests are saved, learning content based on those interests will show in the Home page in ‘Based on your interest’ section and in the ‘Your interests’ tab in the ‘Browse courses’ section as well. Users will also be able to use their interests to filter learning content in the search results page.

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Microsoft Viva: Focus time experiences in Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams

Viva Insights will be rolling out a new experience that expands on the focus time feature in Viva Insights enabling Microsoft 365 users to work uninterrupted with Teams notifications silenced. Focus mode will enrich the focus time experience by helping users make progress on important work, with focus music from Headspace. This immersive experience includes a notification, and a new focus mode page in the Viva Insights Teams app. Users will be able to enroll or modify their focus plan settings, or book ad-hoc focus time in the Viva Insights Teams app.

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Microsoft Viva: Praise History in Microsoft Viva Insights

The Praise app in Microsoft Teams is designed to help recognize the effort that goes into the wide-ranging, collaborative work that Teams users do. Users can send Praise to their colleagues through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar for most users or through the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams. With Praise history, users will be able to view their sent and received praise over the past six months. Praise history will be shown in Viva Insights and will include Praise sent from both the messaging extension and the Viva Insights app. Additionally, all Praise sent in Teams will include a link for users to view their personal Praise history in the Viva Insights Teams app. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85639

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Microsoft Viva: Topics in Microsoft Search in Bing

Display topic cards in search results when Microsoft Search is invoked from a Bing search.
More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/learn-more-about-the-future-of-microsoft-viva-topics-at/ba-p/2177735

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Microsoft Viva: User opt-in as suggested experts

To meet some customer governance and privacy standards, we now allow users to control being displayed as potentially associated with the topic. For these circumstances, you’ll be able to empower users to opt-in to be added to topic pages and cards.
More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/clearpeople-helps-northumbrian-water-tap-the-fountain-of/ba-p/2539469

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Microsoft Viva: Improvements for Topic Management

This update will empower Knowledge Managers, providing additional metadata for sorting and filtering through the list of topics, including additional quality and usage columns, and segmentation to help manage topics at scale.

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Microsoft Viva: Support for types of topics

Support for categories or types of topics, such as projects, products or organizations.

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