Instructors hold Virtual Office Hours in which students can meet with them individually at designated times. Students can meet to work collaboratively on course materials and projects. Our faculty have developed a set of protocols and tips that make IRC one of the most powerful teaching tools in their Web Tool Box. To run IRC, you need an IRC program, commonly called a Client. There are lots of them out there.
Most people prefer a simple user-friendly client.
The best Windows -based IRC client, bar none, is mIRC . Most of the people on IRC use it, and those that don't soon throw out what they are using and convert to it. The most popular Macintosh IRC client is Ircle .