Role: Tutor |
Time: 10 minutes |
Device: Desktop |
Real-time chat is an important component of distance learning because it reclaims some of the spontaneity and student collaboration that occurs with face to face courses but which can be easily lost with distance learning. Real-time chat can be used in a number of scenarios:
Immediately after specific events such as online lectures
Left open at all times for anyone to chat with whomever happens to be online
Weekly organized sessions
Q&A sessions with an invited speaker
Chat logs, particularly regarding specific chat ''events'' can be captured and published for the benefit of students at a later date.
To set up an organized chat session, perform the following steps:
Click on the Turn editing on button, select Add an activity or resource, choose Chat from the drop-down menu, and then click on Add.
On the Adding a new Chat page, under the Chat sessions subheading, fill in the following fields as appropriate...