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Files and links let a conversation carry the material people need to understand the work, not just describe it. Chat keeps those items easy to recognize with draft previews, upload feedback, media galleries, file cards, and expandable link details. Where you share an attachment matters. **Activity Chat is part of shared activity work**, while a [Direct Message](direct-messages.md) is private to its current conversation participants. That distinction determines where the uploaded item belongs and

Emoji make a short message feel human without turning every response into another paragraph. In [Chat](chat.md), you can place emoji in a message, react to something another person said, or use an Award to give a valuable shared-chat contribution extra recognition. These choices serve different purposes. Emoji inside a message help express your own thought. Reactions acknowledge a specific message in Activity Chat or Direct Messages. Awards are quick item-level appreciation reserved for shared A

Direct Messages give you a private conversation space with one person or a group. They use the familiar [Chat](chat.md) message experience, but the conversation belongs to its participants rather than to a space activity. Open **Messages** to see your conversations, choose who you want to talk with, and continue the discussion through topics, messages, files, or a meeting. Direct Messages are private to the people in the conversation. They are not published to a space, and Visual Space does not

Chat keeps conversation close to the work and people it belongs with. Members can discuss an activity in shared space context, preserve what matters in a topic summary, or move to a private one-to-one or group conversation without learning a different message experience. The result is more than a stream of short updates. Live discussion can point to goals, carry useful files, become an article, or lead into a meeting, while topics give the conversation a structure that people can understand afte

This walkthrough adds a custom emoji to your space, checks that people can use it in Chat, and removes it when it no longer belongs in the catalog. It is useful when your space wants a recognizable symbol, shared joke, or project-specific reaction for live conversation.

Chat administration lets a space shape the expressive tools available in its live conversations. This public administration guide is limited to controls verified for space owners and members with **Manage Chat** access.

Custom emoji give a space its own visual shorthand for live conversation. Members can use the active catalog in Chat and Meetings, while the space owner and members with **Manage Chat** access maintain what appears there. This is a shared space resource, not a personal emoji collection. A space can have up to **50 active custom emoji**, and each name must be unique within that space.

Activity Chat keeps live conversation attached to the work that gives it meaning. Instead of opening a general space-wide stream, members enter an activity, read the discussion around its current topic, and respond with the activity’s goals, files, participants, and progress close at hand. This structure helps both active contributors and people catching up later. Messages carry the immediate exchange, while topic boundaries and summaries preserve what the conversation accomplished.

Use this walkthrough when a concise article draft needs room for explanation, evidence, tables, or supporting images. You will turn the draft into a structured long-form article, check how its headings guide readers, and leave the latest body changes safely saved.

A useful chat message does not have to disappear into the conversation. This walkthrough turns one shared space-chat message into an article, gives you a chance to shape its feed introduction and longer explanation, and helps you confirm the published result.

Use this walkthrough to start a focused discussion about one part of a published article, add and manage your own replies, and understand what changes when a comment or complete topic is deleted.

This walkthrough takes you from discovering an article in a feed to reading it in full, exploring its discussion and related material, and saving it for another visit. You can browse readable public articles without joining their spaces; saving with `View Later` requires you to sign in.

This walkthrough follows two people through one complete poll: an author creates and publishes the question, then a reader finds it, casts one choice, and checks the results. Use it when a focused set of answers will be more useful than an open-ended response.

This walkthrough takes an article from a new private draft to a published article and its linked feed post. Use it when you want to choose the right destination, protect unfinished work, and check the result readers will see.

The summary is the article's introduction in the feed and at the top of its reading page. This guide helps you choose one format, prepare content that can be published, and confirm that readers see the introduction you intended.

Opening an article brings its feed summary into a complete reading page. The title, author, owning space, optional long-form body, discussions, and follow-on material stay connected, so readers can move from discovery to deeper understanding without losing the context that led them there.

Posts bring articles into the places where people catch up, browse a space, and discover work worth opening. Each post gives readers enough context to judge the subject quickly, while the linked article provides the complete reading and discussion experience.

Polls turn an article's focused summary into a quick, structured question. Readers can respond from the feed card, then open the article when they need the reasoning, background, or discussion behind the choices.

Articles help ideas travel from a focused feed introduction into deeper reading, discussion, and action. Start with the module overview, explore the part of the experience that matters to you, or follow a complete author or reader journey.

Articles support three different kinds of response: focused discussion topics, whole-article emoji reactions, and Awards. Each serves a different purpose, from developing one part of an idea to offering a quick signal of appreciation.

An article begins with one clear promise to the reader. Its title and focused summary introduce the idea in feeds, while an optional long-form body gives you room to explain, illustrate, and structure it. You write both on a page that stays close to the finished reading experience, so you can judge the result while you work.

Articles help you introduce an idea quickly, then give it enough room to become useful. A concise summary catches attention in a feed, while the full article holds the explanation, media, discussion, and context that readers need.

Use this walkthrough to review a reported post from its surrounding space feed, understand the concern, and choose a verified moderation outcome. It is for space maintainers who can see report context and act on reports in that space.

Use this walkthrough to give a useful published article a more prominent place in its space. You will choose between Expo and a Space Pin, confirm the placement, and remove it later without deleting or unpublishing the article.

Articles administration helps space owners and maintainers make published work easier to discover through Wiki, Expo, or Space Pins and respond carefully when a member reports a post. These guides cover only customer-facing, space-scoped controls.

Publishing makes an article available to its intended audience. Curation helps that audience discover especially useful work, while moderation gives space maintainers a separate way to review reported feed content. These responsibilities may involve the same article and post, but they solve different problems and have different consequences.

This walkthrough reshapes a busy Activities panel without losing the work attached to it. You will prioritize Subspaces, move Activities into the right groups, archive inactive work, and verify the member-facing result.

Wiki gives each space a focused home for durable published knowledge. Maintainers curate existing articles while readers browse a clear tree grounded in the space's current Documents organization.

Whiteboards turn ideas into shared visual plans without disconnecting them from the rest of a space. Each board stays available through Docs, meetings, comments, and its home area.

Spaces give communities and teams a shared home, while personal spaces keep individual work private. Members can find shared priorities and move between focused activities without losing context.

Visual Space carries familiar navigation, media, feedback, and preference controls across the product. Users can move between spaces, content, conversations, and live apps without relearning common actions.

Search brings communities, people, conversations, and shared work into one discovery experience. Each result opens where users can continue viewing or working with it.

Visual Space offers two kinds of recognition. Awards are flexible, spendable reactions for everyday contributions. Medals are rare, lasting honors given on behalf of a space.

Retrospectives give teams a focused space to reflect, turn feedback into action, and keep the conversation connected to their work.

Reporting gives members a simple way to flag concerns and helps each space handle them with the right context.

Top Contributors helps communities recognize the people making a visible difference and gives members an easy way to discover their work.

Profiles bring your identity, published work, saved collections, personal settings, and recognition together in one connected home.

Poly brings scene building, modeling, sculpting, texture painting, and animation into one saved 3D workspace. Users can shape objects, paint through Canvas, and animate their creations alongside imported assets.

Polls turn article-backed questions into quick shared decisions. Readers can vote where they discover a poll, while meeting participants can bring the same poll onto the stage.

Layouts is a planned workspace for measured room plans, renovation sketches, office arrangements, and event setups.

Abos And Boosts brings membership, app access, shared-space benefits, and award top-ups into one place. Separate catalog tabs help users compare available offers and upcoming products.

Notifications bring important activity into one calm inbox, with direct paths back to the places where it happened.

Meetings bring voice, video, screen sharing, and shared work into Visual Space. Users can stay close to the activity or conversation where the call began.

MathPad is marked Coming Soon in Visual Space. Formula editing is not available from Apps in this release.

Hybrid Feed keeps updates, conversations, and hands-on work inside one connected workspace. Users can move through a space without losing the activity, content, or app they were using.

Goals give communities a shared place to turn ideas into visible work. Plans stay close to the conversations, documents, and people already gathered in a space.

Frames is a forthcoming video-editing workspace in Visual Space. It is currently marked Coming Soon.

Events brings schedules, attendance, and shared context together, so communities can plan an occasion and keep its notes and discussion afterward.

Documents brings uploaded files, published work, and creative projects into one connected library. Browse your community through its familiar areas, or keep personal work private in My Docs.

Chat keeps everyday conversation connected to the work around it. Activity discussions use topics and summaries, while Messages provides private one-to-one and group conversations.