Who's Online

Overview The Who's Online tool allows instructors and students to see who else is currently logged into the course at that moment. This allows for many great opportunities for students and instructors to interact in the course. For help adding the Who's Online tool to your course, see Adding a New Tool.

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Under the Teach Tab, click on Who's Online Select the Check Box next to the name of the person you want to talk to Click Send Chat Invitation Enter a short message to include with your chat invitation Click Send Invitation A window appear in the student's web browser displaying your message. They can choose to either accept or decline. Once the student presses accept, a chat window will open up, allowing you and the student to communicate in a very similar fashion to a Chat Room. You can change your status by selecting from the field next to My Status: and clicking Update. Visible/Available: Other people can view and send messages to you through the who's online tool. Visible/Unavailable: Other people can see you through the who's online tool, but cannot send messages to you. Invisible: Your name will not appear on the who's online tool.
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