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Description
Jethro Seghers delivers a 10-minute developer-focused demo targeting the student persona. Viva Connections for Education (student’s digital home dashboard with cards for resource access, student-teacher connections, and more), EDU specific code samples (tuition fees, library loans, book a space, internships, scholarships), Adoption Toolkit (Best practices for Viva Connections Adoption, Day in a life for a student using VCE, Communication templates and documentation) what’s next?
This PnP Community demo is taken from the Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework Bi-weekly sync call recorded on May 18, 2023.
Demo Presenter
• Jethro Seghers (Microsoft) | @jseghers
Supporting materials
• Zip file – Viva Connections for Education Adoption Guide | aka.ms/VCEAdoptionToolkit
• Documentation - Overview of Viva Connections for Education | aka.ms/VCE
• Repo - Viva Connection Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) sample repository | aka.ms/spfx-aces
Learn more
• Microsoft 365 Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
• Microsoft 365 Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
• Microsoft 365 Platform Community - http://aka.ms/community/home
A
A
I
work
for
the
higher
education
experiences
team
based
in
the
education,
engineering
and
I,
really
want
to
give
you
like
a
brief
overview
of
Eva
connections
for
Education.
Maybe
the
first
thing,
you're
going
to
say,
is
like
if
you've
had
connections
for
Education,
what's
so
different
about
the
education
version
for
Viva
connection,
actually
to
be
completely
transparent
and
very
honest,
not
a
lot.
What
we're
actually
trying
to
do
is
really
provide
with
Viva
connections
a
solution
for
a
Persona
that
was
never
tackled
by
Viva
connections
or
the
Viva
Suite
as
it
is
today.
A
A
We
saw
on
average
that
143
education
tools
were
used,
whether
that's
data
about
their
assignments,
their
courses,
their
grades.
What
the
tuition
fees
were
that
they
need
to
pay
where
they
can
loan
do
loans
for
library,
books
and
resources
and
stuff
like
that,
and
it
was
really
overwhelming
overwhelming
in
such
a
way
that
when
we
looked
at
the
Dropout
rates
about
30
percent
of
first-year
students
never
become
a
second
year
student
or
a
sophomore
student,
and
that's
a
lot
and
so
really
what
we
wanted
to
do.
A
A
So
the
first
thing
we
wanted
to
do
is
give
students
a
digital
home
to
start
and
end
their
their
work,
which
is
being
a
really
good
student.
We
also
wanted
to
focus
on
simplifying
the
experience
by
streamlining
the
tasks
and
access
to
the
key
resources
in
one
centralized
place,
and
then
the
connection
is
super
important
for
students
to
feel
connected
with
their
organization
with
the
university
that
they're,
a
part
of
with
the
schools,
they're
they're
participating
in,
and
that's
really
review.
A
Her
connection
for
us
was
that
main
Hub
to
really
drive
that
engagement,
and
so
what
we've
done
is.
How
can
we
now
augment
everything
that
the
FIFA
connections
team
is
already
doing
with
very
unique
education
functionality?
And
how
can
we
actually
translate
that
so
it
makes
sense
when
a
student
goes
to
Viva
connections
or,
however,
they
want
to
Brand
it
in
their
own
organization
and
to
make
that
happen.
So
what
we've
done
in
the
top
two
is
actually
very
interesting.
A
We
went
live
with
those
yesterday
evening,
so
it's
a
very
exciting
time
for
us:
we're
actually
releasing
two
specific
cards
targeted
100
to
education.
So
if
you
have
kids
that
are
using
teams,
as
their
learning
management
system
are
using
teams
to
to
drive
the
education
in
in
your
area,
then
this
is
going
to
make
a
lot
of
sense
for
you
as
well.
A
So
one
of
the
things
I
absolutely
want
to
do
is
thank
a
lot
of
you
for
participating
and
delivering
ace
cards
in
the
samples
Gallery,
because
a
lot
of
our
customers
are
using
this
on
a
daily
basis
is
I'm
just
going
to
call
out
a
few
that
really
are
making
a
lot
of
usage
in
our
environments
is
like
the
my
recent
files
is
in
there.
The
weather
is
in
there
the
office
locations
under
which
we
then
use
as
campus
locations
Transportation
cards.
A
All
these
different,
open
source,
Community
Driven
cards,
are
being
appreciated
very
heavily
by
the
education
community.
So
we
wanted
to
make
sure
as
Microsoft
that
we
also
did
our
work
today,
so
we're
actually
looking
to
potentially
bring
in
the
code
for
assignments
and
courses
in
that
as
well,
which
we
already
have
from
a
production
perspective,
but
we
also
made
sure
that
we
had
five.
A
We
call
them
code
samples
with
specific
education
functionality,
so
the
ones
that
we
are
currently
submitting
to
the
GitHub
repository
are
tuition
fees,
Library
loans,
book,
a
space,
internships
and
scholarships
which
I'm
going
to
show
you
in
a
bit
as
well,
and
it's
really
designed
to
be
a
starting
point.
Both
our
customers,
Partners
yourself,
so
you're
you're,
totally
fine
to
take
the
design
and
start
working
on
it.
We've
attached
sample
code
to
it,
so
it
makes
a
lot
more
sense
when
you
start
working
with
it.
A
But
it's
designed
made
by
Microsoft
designers
to
the
standards
of
Microsoft
design,
with
the
code
samples
being
fully
vetted
by
Engineers
as
well.
So
you
can
just
immediately
use
those
and
make
it
into
your
own
really
example
that
you
want
to
augment
it
right
Additionally.
You
also
want
to
invite
you
if
you
have
ideas
for
Education
specific
cards.
Let
us
know
if
you
submit
some
send
me
a
ping
I'm
happy
to
send
that
through
the
marketing
machine,
that
our
team
has
to
really
put
some
additional
visibility
on
the
work
that
you
guys
are
doing.
A
But
again,
I
cannot
stress
enough
how
important
for
us
it
is
that
this
community
exists
and
the
examples
that
you
guys
build
like
every
single
time
when
somebody
is
asking
for
a
specific
feature.
The
first
thing
I
do
is
actually
go
to
the
open,
open
source,
GitHub
repository
with
all
the
samples
in
it
and
immediately
start
Distributing
that
to
all
my
customers.
So
let's
not
kill
you
guys
by
PowerPoint
and
actually
go
into
a
true
example
of
how
Viva
connections
for
Education
can
be
used.
So
this
is,
for
example,
the
two
side.
A
The
cards
that
Microsoft
has
launched
yesterday,
specifically
around
the
assignments.
So
when
we
click
here
on
the
view,
all
it's
going
to
use
the
graph
to
really
pull
out
all
that
information
and
kind
of
design
it
in
a
tap
kind
of
system,
where
we
have
one
the
algebra
class
with
the
Mind
map
that
they
need
to
work
on
what
is
really
cool
and
what
students
heavily
appreciate
is
the
fact
that
it's
clickable,
that
it
immediately
takes
them
to
the
right
information.
A
We
also
have
the
same
thing
for
our
courses
and
then
here
are
all
the
code,
samples
that
are
we're
in
process
and
process
of
actually
submitting
that
to
the
GitHub
repository.
So
in
this
case
we
have
our
outstanding
loans
that
students
immediately
can
be
informed
of
if
they
want
to
do
an
internship.
This
is
some
sample
they
data,
so
we
have
Accenture
Cisco
ansys.
We
have
the
ones
that
they've
submitted,
for
we
have
our
scholarships
here
right.
A
So
these
are
all
scholarships
that
they
can
take
a
look
at
what
are
recent
applied,
all
that
good
stuff
same
thing
for
booking
a
space,
so
this
is
really
for
us
to
show
our
customers
here's
some
of
the
things
that
are
possible
for
you
to
do,
and
we
understand,
especially
in
education,
the
the
let's
call
it
the
ace
development
skill
set
is
a
growing
skill
set.
A
lot
of
people
are
starting
to
adopt
the
model
they're
looking.
A
How
can
we
build
our
own
experiences,
but
it
we're
fairly
new
to
it,
we're
not
as
mature
yet
as
the
commercial
space,
but
it's
something
that
is
very
exciting.
It's
something
that
we
now
can
actually
address.
Some
of
the
student
problems
that
we
have
and
like
I
mentioned,
for
example,
here
the
holidays,
one
I
don't
know
who
created
it,
but
it's
an
amazing
one.
I
pretty
much.
All
my
customers
are
using
it
to
show
the
students
what
they're
holiday
days
are
based
on
on
their
location
and
so
I
just
want
to
say.
A
Thank
you
again
for
all
the
work
that
you
put
in
there.
If
we
can
ever
support
you
in
any
way
shape
or
form,
let
me
know
as
well
and
and
that's
pretty
much
all
I
needed
to
show
so
I
know
I'm,
probably
under
time,
so
I'll
give
it
to
the
next
speaker.
But
if
you
have
questions,
I
will
put
my
email
address
in
the
chat
as
well
feel
free
to
reach
out
feel
free
to
share
ideas,
things
that
you've
done.