Chatting via Collaboration Tools - Chat Tools
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Chat Tools
Basics
- The left frame displays the users who have joined the chat session.
- The right frame displays the users' conversation.
- This icon indicates that a user is a chat moderator.
- This icon indicates that a user is active. Active users can chat and private message by default.
- This icon indicates that a user is passive. Passive users cannot chat or private message by default.
- This icon indicates that a user is requesting to become active and join the conversation.
Buttons
- Change how private messages are displayed.
- Set access rights for users and terminate the chat session for all users.
- Clear the local display or the display for all users.
- End session and expel all chat participants. Clicking this button will also erase all chat history in the display window. Recordings will still be available.
- Begin recording the chat session.
- Pause recording.
- Stop recording.
- Insert a bookmark into the recording.
- Displays user information and provides the ability to expel the selected participant.
- Send a private message to the selected user.
- Toggle selected user between active and passive mode.
- Send message to all participating users.