Virtual Opportunities are those that take placer at a Virtual location.
Locations In HandsOn Connect can now be defined as one of two types:

1) Address (this is the default, and represents any location that has an address and/or can be located on a map)

2) Virtual (This is a 'location' that is designated as virtual - meaning it doesn't take place at a physical address). A virtual location may be your home, a virtual meeting taking place in a web conferencing app, a streaming site, etc.). A virtual location is any location that you don't physically have to arrive at in order to participate.

When creating a Volunteer Opportunity, select "Create New Location".   After doing so you will see the option to select the Location Type.   For regular physical locations leave the default as address.  For Virtual Opportunities choose "Virtual" as the location type.  

• Use the Special Directions field in the location to give instructions on how to participate in the Virtual Opportunity.  This field can be used for any information relevant to participating in the virtual opportunity that you don't want to make available in the opportunity description. (so that only those signed up for the opportunity can see the URL for online participation or additional instructions.

NOTE:  For Virtual locations, the street address, city, state and zip are not required and can be left blank.  You can optionally fill this info in, but it will have no effect on search results.

If you have previously created VIrtual Opportunities and wish to convert them to the new format (for ease in search, feature opportunity blocks, etc) simply do this:

• Edit the existing location of the opportunity
• Change the location type field from "Address" to "Virtual".

It will now appear as Virtual on the public site.

Some organizations have created Virtual Opportunities as Individually Scheduled Opportunities - Express Interest Only with No location.   This is still an option and you don't need to convert these if you don't want to.   They won't however, show up automatically as Virtual Opportunities in the search mechanisms (unless you have already implemented a way to search for them using tags or saved searches).

You can however, convert these to the new format by creating a new virtual location (or using an existing virtual location), and associating the Occurrence of your Virtual ISO - EIO opportunities to use a virtual location.