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Chatting via Collaboration Tools - Virtual Classroom Tools

Learning Technologies > Blackboard > Faculty > Chatting via Collaboration Tools.

Sections

Synchronous Discussion

Class or Small Group Chat

Creating a Collaboration Session

Chat Tools

Virtual Classroom Tools

Issues and Tips

Virtual Classroom Tools

Basics

• The left frame displays the users who have joined the chat session. For Virtual Classroom, it also includes additional classroom tools.
• The right frame displays the users' conversation. For Virtual Classroom, it also includes a whiteboard.
• - This icon indicates that a user is a chat moderator.
• - This icon indicates that a user is active. Active users can use chat, private messaging, map, whiteboard, group browser, and ask questions by default.
• - This icon indicates that a user is passive. Passive users can only ask questions 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.
• - Create seperate chat sessions with selected users.

• - Begin recording the chat session.
• - Pause recording.
• - Stop recording.
• - Insert a bookmark into the recording.

• - Course map tool.
• - Whiteboard tool.
• - Virtual Browser tool.
• - Ask a question. Unlike private messaging, this tool is public.
• - Answer questions.

• - 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.

Whiteboard

• - Cut the currently selected figure.
• - Copy the currently selected figure.
• - Paste the currently selected figure.
• - Delete the currently selected figure.

• - Group or ungroup the currently selected figures.
• - Move the currently selected figure to the back or front.

• - Select all figures.
• - Take a snapshot of the whiteboard for recording (recording mode must be activated).
• - Clears the whiteboard.