Moodle 2.0

Adding Social Activities to Your Course
Let's take a look at the settings on this page:
Name
This is the name that students will see on the course's Home Page.
Introduction text
When a student selects the chat, they will see the introduction text before being
passed into the chat room.
Next chat time and Repeat sessions
As stated in the beginning of this section, as long as a chat is visible to the student,
they can enter that chat room at any time. Therefore, the settings for Next chat time
and Repeat sessions don't open and close the chat. Instead, these settings put a time
and date for the chat on the class calendar.
Chat times are listed in the Calendar and Upcoming Events blocks. Note that chat
is not restricted to these times; they are only announced as a way for people in the
course to "make a date" for the chat. Spontaneous chats have the best chance of
happening if the course has a lot of students who frequent the course's Home Page.
Also, consider adding the Online Users block, so that when students visit the site
they will know who is online and can invite others into the chat room.
In order to make the chat room available only during designated times, you should
make sure that the person running the chat is a Teacher with editing privileges,
and also hide the chat room during off hours. When the chat is about to begin, the
Teacher can show the chat room.
Save past sessions and Everyone can view past
sessions
Through this setting, the past chats can be saved. The Save past sessions setting
allows you to set a time limit for saving chats. The setting for Everyone can view
past sessions determines whether students can view past chats (Yes) or whether
only teachers can view past chats (No).
Chat security
The only security for a chat room is turning the group mode on, so that only students
in a selected group can see each other in the chat room.
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