Announcing Viva Learning public preview
Published Apr 26 2021 06:00 AM 35.5K Views
Microsoft
By John Mighell, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Viva Learning Marketing Lead

 

***4/27 update: Due to overwhelming demand during the first 24 hours of signups and limited spots available, we are closing Viva Learning preview signups at this time. Please register here to receive Viva news and information, including notifications should additional Viva Learning preview spots become available***

 

Since we announced Microsoft Viva in February, we’ve heard consistently from customers, industry analysts, and our own internal users how important learning is to them. Everyday we hear examples of creative learning – not just as an important aspect of personal and professional growth – but also as an avenue for social engagement, helping people feel more connected in a largely virtual work environment. These scenarios are top of mind as we get closer to launching Viva Learning - a central hub for learning in Microsoft 365 where people can discover, share, recommend, and learn from best-in-class content libraries to help teams and individuals make learning a natural part of their day.


At Microsoft Ignite in March, we shared a new set of product features and admin capabilities, derived from our private preview customer feedback and internal use scenarios. With this feedback we’re continuing to build Viva Learning to seamlessly integrate learning into the tools you already use everyday - you can share learning via chat, pin learning content in existing Teams channels, recommend learning, see all your available learning sources in a personalized view, search across available sources, and so much more.

 

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As we strive to build a product that facilitates an organization’s learning culture by bringing learning into the flow of work, we’re thrilled to announce today we’re ready to take the next step in that journey.

 

Viva Learning enters public preview today

There are a few items to keep in mind as we kick off public preview:


Eligibility
Viva Learning public preview is open to all organizations with paid subscription access to Microsoft Teams, with the exception of Education or Government customers. We’ll have additional information to share when Viva Learning is available to those audiences in the future.


Approval from your IT admin
Public preview onboarding requests should either come from your IT admin directly or have the support of your IT admin. In the Teams Admin Center, your IT admin will have the ability to configure who within your organization has access to the Viva Learning app in preview – this can range from the entire organization to just a small subset of users.


Onboarding timelines
We expect a high volume of public preview requests and will manage requests as they come in through a rolling onboarding process. Expect it to take a few weeks from request submission to tenant activation.


Product features in preview
As with any product in preview or beta stages, please be aware that we are still hard at work building the final version. The preview product will not initially include all the features that will be available at product general availability. We will roll out additional features to our preview customers continually as we lead up to general availability later this year.


Submitting feedback
As you start to use Viva Learning we want to hear your feedback! Please use the “Help” button in Teams (bottom of the left nav rail) and select either “Suggest a feature” or “Report a problem”

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How to sign up for Viva Learning public preview

Once you’ve read through the 5 items above, you’re ready to get started. The public preview request process is simple and should only take you a few minutes:

 

1. Gather required information
To activate the Viva Learning preview for your Microsoft 365 tenant we need the tenant ID your organization uses to login to Teams (has AAD users associated), and the type of SKU your organization is currently licensed with. You will need that information to accurately fill out the form linked below.

 

2. Submit your request
Complete our onboarding request form with the required information. Completing this form should take about 5 minutes.

 

3. Next steps
After submitting your request, please stay tuned for a confirmation email within 24 business hours. Later, you will receive a notification email once your tenant is activated which will include setup and usage documentation. We will keep you posted using the vivalp@microsoft.com alias. Please add this alias to your Safe Senders list in Outlook (Home → Junk → Junk E-mail Options → Safe Senders). Please do not send emails directly to this alias. 

 

Looking ahead

We will have additional important updates, features, and news on Viva Learning in the coming weeks and months. Don’t forget to visit aka.ms/VivaLearning and click “sign up for updates” to receive the latest customer and partner updates as they become available.

 

26 Comments
Bronze Contributor

Great news that Viva Learning is now also available as a public preview! Looking forward to integrating this in our Modern Workplace with Teams as a Platform. Just submitted the onboarding request ;)

Brass Contributor

Can we target the rollout to a subset of users or is it to all or nothing?

Iron Contributor

Yes, I am thrilled that Viva Learning is in Public Preview. My L&D team is excited as well. I would like to add an additional voice to @Larry Corley asking if we can target specific users for this preview?

Microsoft

@Larry Corley / @Shaun Jennings yes, within the Teams Admin Center your admins can choose who within your organization has access to Viva Learning. 

Copper Contributor

Great news! Looking forward to testing it in our environment. Our clients will certainly be asking for it in the coming months. We'll be ready to help them.

Copper Contributor

Is there an expected timeframe for rolling this trial out to government customers?

Copper Contributor

Hi - if we are edu tenant should I wait for a different preview (product SKU) or are we allowed to use it as is?

 Thanks 

 

Copper Contributor

Excited to to on-board asap, by the just wondering what kind of SKUs are entitled ?

Copper Contributor

Great news! I hope I can try it for our company aswell!

Copper Contributor

Good news, hurry to test it :)

Copper Contributor

All learning content aggregated in Teams. I cannot wait to see the impact of this small change which will put training alongside our daily meetings.

Copper Contributor

Ok, why on earth there have to be a onboarding request, which of course is now overwhelmed. We were supposed to get this in public preview in April, I guess we wont after all. AND is SharePoint included in the public preview?

Copper Contributor

我在4月出提交注册,但是并没有任何人联系,导致现在错过了申请。可以额外帮忙开通一下吗?非常感谢

Copper Contributor

@John_Mighell 

我在4月出提交注册,但是并没有任何人联系,导致现在错过了申请。可以额外帮忙开通一下吗?非常感谢

Copper Contributor

I just got an email saying that I could sign up for the public preview onboarding... I'm assuming this was just a prescheduled email from before y'all shut it down? It just redirects back here, but you got my hopes up for a minute. :pensive_face:

Copper Contributor

I received the same e-mail at noon EST today. Understand this stuff is pre-scheduled, but it looks like some additional coordination between Teams could have been beneficial to avoid being told I could sign up then finding out that wasn't already shut off. 

Brass Contributor

Wow, clicked on email saying I could sign up. Clicked on it immediately, only to be directed to a site telling me it was closed due to demand in the first 24 hours. 

Brass Contributor

@John_Mighell is Viva Learning Public Preview available now? Any idea about when it will be re-opened for new sign-ups?

thank you,

Gabriele

Copper Contributor

Hello. Is there any update on when this will be available?

 

Cheers

KG

Microsoft

Hi everyone, as you've seen we were overwhelmed by the number of signups we received in the first 24 hours of preview availability and subsequently were forced to close the preview. Currently we are only able to manually provision preview tenants, which is a time consuming process. Hence our need to shut down after such high demand in order to preserve engineering team capacity. As auto provisioning comes online it will enable us to open up additional spots in preview, but we do not have a timeline for that yet. We truly appreciate the great interest in this product, and we're looking forward to making it available to everyone. Thank you for your patience!

Iron Contributor

@John_Mighell 
Will those of us who have signed up within the first 24 hour and have yet to receive the preview still receive it? Or is Microsoft saying that it is shutting down all previews, except if you have already received it?

Copper Contributor

I'm in the same boat as Shaun, if you received the confirmation email of signing up does that mean you're going honour the people that did manage to sign up before closing?

Copper Contributor

Despite being within a couple of hours to register (before they closed the submissions), I received an email this morning (24 days after the application) saying "we changed our mind", we don't care that you registered and have waited 3 weeks, we don't have the capacity to honour the request (which is concerning for Microsoft). Our company was in the process of setting up its first LMS platform, and when Viva got announced we decided to try out this instead.

 

Hi Daniel-

 

Thank you for your interest in Viva Learning public preview. Due to an overwhelming number of submissions our first onboarding wave is complete. Due to capacity restrictions we were unfortunately unable to onboard you at this time.

 

We may be able to conduct another onboarding wave in the future, although that is not guaranteed. If you would like to remain on our list for any potential future onboarding waves, please respond with your written consent to keep your contact information for the purposes of onboarding to Viva Learning public preview. If we don’t receive this by 5/27, we will remove you from our list.

 

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Copper Contributor

Hi @John_Mighell Do you have a timeline on when either the manual provisioning or auto provisioning will be made available? Thanks

Brass Contributor

Hello - I'm waiting as well for any kind of preview (Public or Private). 

 

Is the Private preview available now?

I have been in touch with the Viva Learning team members at Microsoft. These are good folks and they are trying hard to make Viva Learning a success in the long run. Even though there have been glitches in the public preview deployment process, there's definitely a lot of good stuff coming for sure.

 

I'll be presenting a webinar on June 29th to show Viva Learning (preview) as it currently exists and to answer a lot of questions that have been coming my way. Come join me. Bring your questions and let's talk.

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5432762135453771789?source=social-AR

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