You can use the Chat Room tool for real-time, unstructured conversations among site participants who are signed on to the site at the same time.
Instructors can easily create an "Online Office Hours" chat room for student questions and answers. Dispersed collaboration groups can use Chat as a space to have conversations across distances or catch up with conversations that they may have missed.
Multiple rooms: Site leaders can use
Options
to add rooms to accommodate more than one
discussion. Participants can click Change Room
to access other
discussions.
Display: Changes you make in Options
also
apply to how the Chat Room features appear to site participants.