Recommend and manage content in Viva Learning

Recommend learning content

In the top bar, select Recommend.
Select one or more users or user groups. You can’t send a recommendation to more than 30 users or user groups.
Add an optional Note.
Select an optional Due date.
Select Recommend.

Important: You can't recommend learning to a user if you have already recommended that learning to the user and the user hasn’t completed the learning.

View and manage recommendations made by you

You can view and manage all of your recommendations in the Manage tab.

Select the Manage tab. By default, only a few recommendations show. Select See more to see all recommendations.
To see progress on recommended learning, select the ellipses (...) then Check status.
To delete a recommendation, select the ellipses (...) then Delete. Once deleted, the recommendation is removed from the receiver's view regardless of completion status.

How recommendations display to recipients

As a recipient of recommendations, you can view all recommendations by going to My Learning > Recommended to you.

The details of who recommended the course is shown within the card and the details view of the course.

If more than one person has recommended the same course to you, you can see all the recommender information by hovering on the i icon .

A screenshot of the Viva Learning Home page, in which the user is hovering over the Recommended by section of a course.

As the recipient of the recommendation, you have an option to share the progress information with the recommender. By default, this toggle is turned off for all new recommendations.

A screenshot within a course in which you can enable a toggle to allow recommenders to track your progress in that course.

Note: If this toggle is not shown, then your organization has disabled progress tracking.

Managing Recommendations:

For each user, Viva Learning will show one of three states:

‘-‘ (No details) – this indicates that the receiver has Not Started the course or not shared the progress information with you
In Progress
Completed