From the course: Learning Moodle 3.6
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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll take a look at the chat activity and how can extend the conversations be on the walls of the classroom. I like Moodle's description of the chat feature. Chats enable participants to have text-based, realtime synchronous discussions. Chats can be a very useful activity to add to your course if students will need to work on something when they're not meeting face to face. This is a safe way to have learners communicate because the discussions can be monitored and all chats can be saved and made available for others in the class to see. Let's take a look at how to add a chat. First I'm going to scroll down to one of my sections. I'll go to the structure and function section. Then I'll click on add an activity or resource. From here, I'll select Chat. Then, at the bottom, I'll click on Add. This'll bring us to the page where we can begin creating this chat. I'm going to go in here and type in project discussions. We are working on projects and I want…
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