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The Chat tool allows students and instructors to interact in real time in a course.
- Any user in the course can participate in the chat and view ALL chat messages. There is no private-chatting with this tool
- A user must be actively viewing the chat tool in a course to appear as online to others. You can have the chat window open in background tab while you are viewing other tabs
- Enable the New Message Alerts slider to play an audio alert when a new message arrives and chat is not your active window
- Students cannot delete chat messages. Instructors can delete by hovering over a message and clicking the Trash Can icon
- If you do not want users chatting in your course, you can disable the chat link in the course menu
- Some Safari versions may have issues with chat alerts. You can avoid these errors by disabling cross-site tracking prevention when using Canvas
