Online chat rooms

If you need to support learners who aren't in the classroom then chat rooms are the ideal way of doing so:

• Create an exam revision chat room and spend an hour with your students the night or morning before an exam.

• Support learners who are away ill. If they have access to a computer they can still join in with class discussions.

• Support project work over the weekend or holiday period with chat sessions. They will cut down on the amount of catch-up work you have to do when you return to work on Monday morning.

• Hold online tutorial sessions if you and your students are finding it difficult to arrange a time and a place when you can all be together in person.

• Invite a guest speaker into your chat room. By inviting them to join your class online you can dramatically cut your expenses bill!

• Moodle chat rooms are safe and only open to those enrolled in your course.

And using a chat room within Moodle means that users don't have to learn how to use yet another "chat client", as they...