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Real-Time Collaboration Chat [Beta]
Real-Time Collaboration Chat [Beta]

Enable the chat feature for your students during Real-Time collaboration in the Sandbox

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Written by Gary Gould
Updated over 5 months ago
Banner: this is a Free feature

The chat feature allows students who are collaborating on a shared program to send text messages back and forth to each other. This is currently a Beta Feature, and requires that teachers enable it before it's accessible for their students.

Once a teacher enables Real-Time Chat for their students, it will also be available on their teacher account.

Opt-In to Use Real-Time Chat

Teachers will need to enable this feature in their Section Settings before students can use it. To enable Real-Time Chat:

  • In your Sections app, click the Settings tool

  • Select a Section from the Section drop-down menu in the top left

  • Scroll down to Collaborate Chat and select Enable For All Students (Or select Disable For All Students to remove access)

Using Real-Time Chat with Collaborate

After joining a collaborate session, a new Collaboration Icon will appear in the left navigation bar. Click the icon to open the collaboration settings and access the chat bubble.

  • Switch on the Pop Out toggle to open the chat bubble in a moveable window.

  • Note: Currently, chat is not available for Karel programs.


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