Overview
Chat allows students,
teaching assistants, and instructors to have real-time conversations with
others in the course. There are four general purpose chat rooms and one
general forum for the course. There is also a general chat room for all
courses, which is a room shared by everybody from all courses on the same
server. Conversations in the four general purpose rooms are recorded.
Only your instructor can see the records.
What do you want to do?
Entering a chat room | Top
- From the Chat
screen, click the room that you want to enter. The Chat
window appears. It contains three main areas:
- The Output
Interaction Box displays all messages sent and received.
- The Users
Logged In box shows the users presently in the room.
- The Enter your message below text
box where you type your messages.
- You can do any of the following:
Sending a message to everyone
in the room | Top
- From the Chat
screen, click the room that you want to enter. The Chat
window appears.
- In the Enter
your message below text box, type your message.
- To send the message, press
Enter. Your message appears in the Output
Interaction Box.
Sending a private message
to someone in the room | Top
- From the Chat
screen, click the room that you want to enter. The Chat
window appears.
- Under Users
Logged In, select a recipient. To select more than one recipient,
hold the CTRL key while selecting the names.
- In the Enter your
message below text box, type your message.
- To send the message, press Enter.
Your message appears in the Output Interaction Box
of the selected recipient(s).
Activating the entry chime
| Top
- From
the Chat screen,
click any chat room. The Chat window appears.
- Select Entry Chime.
The chime sounds whenever a new person enters any chat room. You will
hear the chime both in Chat and when you are
working elsewhere in your course.
|