How do I control which activities a team can use?

Open your team, go to the Team activities tab, and switch each activity on or off for that team. Anything your organisation has not enabled stays locked.

Where to find it

Open Settings, then Joined Teams, select your team, and choose the Team activities tab. Team owners and team admins can change these settings. Organisation owners and admins can do so for any team in the organisation.

The activities you can control

Each activity can be switched on or off independently for the team:

• Transcript upload

• Audio/video upload

• Live audio

• Video room

• Text roleplay

• Voice roleplay

• Avatar roleplay

• Skill feature

• Relationships

An activity switched on shows as selected. An activity switched off shows greyed out and crossed through.

Relationships and Skills are separate activities. Which of them a team can use is set here for each independently.

⚠️ Switching Skills off also switches off Text roleplay and Voice roleplay, because both run inside a skill. Switching Skills back on does not switch the two roleplay activities back on, so turn them on again if you want them.

Activities your organisation has not enabled

Some activities are set at organisation level and cannot be changed here. Those appear greyed out with a padlock, and the note next to them reads that the activity is not enabled for your organisation. To change that, email support@ovida.org. Relationships behaves the same way. If your organisation does not have it, the control reads that Relationships isn't enabled for your organisation and cannot be switched on from here.

What your members see

What a member sees depends on the activity. For most activities, a member who tries to start one that is switched off for their team sees a short line naming the activity and the team, at the point they try to start rather than after they have filled anything in. If the activity is not enabled for the whole organisation, the message says so instead.

Practice modes work differently. A practice mode your organisation has not enabled is hidden rather than shown as unavailable, so members see only the modes they can use. If Skills is not available to a member at all, the Skills menu item is hidden from their left-hand menu rather than shown and blocked.

Members who already have a skill in progress can still open it and complete it when Skills is switched off for the team. Only starting something new is blocked.

💡 Tip A new team starts with every activity enabled, except Avatar roleplay, which starts off.