Chat

From Wikipedia

In the chat room you can communicate with other group members is a sort of on-line conference. This might be useful for information exchange although the group members can meet only seldom. Best practice is to arrange an appointment via email and meet in the chat room.

The chat room window is separated in the following three parts:

In the largest area messages are posted. This part of the window will be reloaded frequently (e.g, every 20 seconds), to display new messages. Beside there is a list of the active chat members. This part will be updated every minute to refresh the user list and keep it up to date. Below there is an input field, where you can type in your (multi line) text.

If you have activated 'multi line text field' in your settings, you have to send your messages with the button 'submit', as the 'return' key causes just a new line in the editor:-)

With the link 'exit' you can leave the chat room.

Tip: If a chat user forgets to sign off by using the link 'exit', the chat remains activated. In the next chat session there will be remaining texts. In this case, please contact your administrator, who will remove them.