There are two types of chats:

• Personal chats  Personal chats are private and visible only to users who you have added to the chat’s participants list. Personal chats are ideal for keeping in touch with friends and colleagues or for clubs and other groups whose members do not share a single org unit. Anyone with the proper permissions can create personal chat rooms.
• General (course) chats  General chats are public chats visible to everyone enrolled in the org unit where they are created. Instructors can create general chat rooms to incorporate chat discussions into the teaching of a course since they are automatically open to all users enrolled in the course.

Learner topics

The Chat tool is a real-time, text-based collaboration tool. You can use the Chat tool to brainstorm ideas, hold a question and answer period, have a debate or discussion, or organize a remote study group. As opposed to other collaboration tools, such as Discussions, Chat conversations occur in real-time.

What are the basics of Chat?

• Accessing Chat
• Using Chat
• Changing your chat settings

How do I manage my chat history?

• Accessing an archived chat session
• Deleting a chat session
• Printing chat sessions

How do I use personal chat rooms?

• Creating a personal chat room
• Adding users to a personal chat
• Removing users from a personal chat
• Editing a personal chat room
• Deleting a personal chat room