Answers · Submitting work
Do I have to do the conversation, or is it optional?
It is the second half of submitting. Uploading the file alone leaves your assignment incomplete.
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Not optional. On these assignments, submitting has two steps: you upload your work, then you talk about it. Doing only the first one leaves the assignment unfinished.
- Until the conversation is done, your assignment shows Uploaded, not Complete — and your instructor sees it that way too.
- Start the conversation within 15 minutes of submitting. Missing that does not lock you out; a late start is recorded for your instructor.
- If you upload and never start, Viva emails you a reminder with a link, so a forgotten conversation is easy to finish.
- Viva never applies a penalty by itself. Whether a missed conversation costs marks is your instructor's policy, so ask them or check your syllabus.
This is one page of the documentation inside Viva.
Instructors get the rest — the walkthroughs, the screenshots, and Ask Viva, which finds the right page from a typed question.