July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 27m
English
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Chats
The Moodle chat tool is a simple synchronous communication tool allowing you and your students to communicate in real time. If you’ve every used an instant messaging system like AOL, MSN or iChat, you’ve used a system similar to the Moodle chat. In the forums, you and your students don’t have to be logged in at the same time. In a chat, everyone needs to be logged in at the same time in order to communicate.
Creating Chats
To use the chat tool, you will need to create a chat room for you and your students and set a time when everyone will log in and meet in the chat room. You can create one session for the entire course or set up repeating sessions for multiple meetings.
To create a chat session:
Click Turn Editing Mode On.
Select Chat from the “Add an activity...” menu.
In the create chat page, shown in Figure 4-10, give the chat room a name and provide directions on how to use the room in the Introduction text.
Figure 4-10. Create chat
Set the time for the first chat session in the Next chat time.
Set the options for the chat room:
- Repeat sessions
There are four options here:
- Don’t publish any chat times
Creates a chat room that is always open and has no specified meeting times
- No repeats
Creates a one-time chat room that will meet only during the time specified in step 4
- At the same time every day
Creates an entry in the course calendar for a daily chat at the time specified in step 4
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