The Chat tool is a text-based discussion tool.
Use the Chat tool when you want to have real-time, synchronous text-based discussion with your students in an online chat room.
For audio chat, see the Voice Thread page.
The Chat tool allows you to text-chat with your students in an online chat room. Discussion, brainstorming, group work and questioning are all teaching strategies that can be enhanced using Chat.
Create a Chat activity
Chat activity can be created by adding an activity or a resource from the activity picker in a Moodle course.
Click 'Get Started' to view the step-by-step guide
Participate in a Chat session
Chat activity has to be started by the teaching staff between one student or a groups of students at the same time.
Click 'Get Started' to view the step-by-step guide
How do I configure how long to save past chat sessions?
On the "Chat Settings" page, navigate to the Chat sessions section, and choose how long to save sessions from the Save past sessions drop-down menu.
