Use the Chat tool when you want to have real-time, synchronous text-based discussion with your students in an online chat room.

Creating a Chat Activity

1. On the course home page, click Turn editing on , and in the relevant section, click Add an activity or resource,

2. Select Chat from the pop-up list and click Add. On the Adding a new Chat page, click Expand all.

Completing General section:

• Enter the Name of this chat room and some Description text.

Completing Chat section:

• At Next chat time, enter the day, month, year, hour and minute of the first chat session.
• At Repeat/publish session times, select how you want the chat time(s) to display.
• Select the period for which you want to Save past sessions.
• Select whether Everyone can view past sessions.

Participating in a Chat session