Viva Engage is here

Welcome to Viva Engage - ACU's new staff engagement platform.

Viva Engage is designed to support your workday through a simple and integrated experience, where you control what you see and when.

How to access Viva Engage

It's easy to access Viva Engage via the button on the rail on the left of Microsoft Teams.

You'll be able to view content, post and comment in Viva Engage all from within Teams.

Can't see Viva Engage in your Teams navigation bar?

Too many notifications?

The Viva Engage default is to notify you about everything, but you can easily change this. You can set your notifications to either receive a daily digest, a weekly digest or no notifications at all. Please follow these instructions to change your notification settings.

Please note that Viva Engage email notifications will be from notifications@yammer.com. Yammer is Viva Engage's previous name.

Understanding Viva Engage

Viva Engage is centered on communities (known as groups on Workplace). We've introduced a simplified community structure on Viva Engage to make it easier for you to reach the right audience.

You will automatically be added to relevant communities based on your role and location:

• All-staff community: All staff will automatically be added to this community. Posts in this community must be relevant to all staff. See below for tips on appropriate content.
• Academic staff community: Information that is relevant to academics and researchers on multiple campuses should be posted in this community. Academic and research staff will be automatically added to this community. Professional staff may opt in.
• Professional staff community: Information that applies to professional staff on multiple campuses should be posted in this community. All-professional staff will be automatically added to this community and academic staff may opt in.
• Campus communities: ACU activities relating to a specific campus may be posted in the appropriate campus community. You will automatically be added to your local campus group. You will be able to visit other campus groups and view content but will only be able to post in your local campus group.

Several opt-in special interest groups that existed on Workplace have also been recreated on Viva Engage and all existing members added. You can view the full list of Viva Engage communities here.

Sharing news with all staff

You now have access to share news with all staff via the new All-staff community. This community replaces several all-staff groups on Workplace, including Staff News, Staff Movements, Leadership updates and Office of the Vice-Chancellor and President.

Posts may include:

• leadership updates
• national initiatives and events
• policy updates
• staff movements
• job opportunities (at a national level)
• staff achievements and good news stories
• equity and inclusion announcements
• safety and wellbeing initiatives and events
• campus closure dates
• payroll information

Don't worry if you choose the wrong community. The Internal Communications team will be closely monitoring this community, and posts that are not relevant to all staff will be moved to a more suitable one.

Want to find out more?

There are a range of ways you can learn more about Viva Engage:

• Read our Viva Engage guidelines.
• Read our Viva Engage knowledge articles.
• Contact Service Central for any further questions.

What happens to Workplace now?

Workplace is now in read-only mode, which means you can view existing content on Workplace, but won't be able to post anything new. Our Workplace platform will be deleted on 1 June 2026. Please ensure you have saved any important information from Workplace before this date and stored it appropriately, in line with the Records Retention and Disposal Schedule.