If new comments have been added to your discussions, you'll be notified automatically via an email message on your SMC email account. In the chat room, you have a place to type your comments and so do thestudents. Theprivate rooms work the same way except that only one student is allowed to enterthe room with you at the same time. Of course,successful use of the Chat feature requires that you or your students plan inadvance to meet each other in a particular room at a particular time. Note that you do NOT have to be a participant, so students can also usethis feature for online study groups.
Onlyenrolled students have access to the chat rooms.
At the top of the screen,you'll see a list of everyone in the room, then a display of theircomments. Of course, if you've entered an empty room, there won't be anycomments unless you enter some. At the bottom of the screen is a place foryou to enter your comments. Use this button when you want to leave the chatroom. All SMC instructors are invited to setup a homepage for their classes.