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Chatting via Collaboration Tools - Virtual Classroom Tools

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

Sections

Class or Small Group Chat

Chat Tools

Virtual Classroom Tools

Issues

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 (group only).
• - Clear your local display. Clear the display for all users (group only).
• - End session and expel all chat participants (group only). 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 (group only).
• - Pause recording (group only).
• - Stop recording (group only).
• - Insert a bookmark into the recording (group only).

• - Course map tool.
• - Whiteboard tool.
• - Virtual Browser tool.
• - Ask a question. Unlike private messaging, this tool is public.
• - Answer questions (group only by default).

• - Displays user information.
• - Send a private message to the selected user.
• - Toggle selected user between active and passive mode (group only).
• - If you ever get deactivated by a moderator, you can press this button to raise your hand and request to become active again. By default, only active users can engage in discussion and private messaging. This button replaces the active/passive toggle (shown above) in class chat.
• - 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.