Whether or not you have chat rooms available to you in your course is up to your instructor and how he or she has configured your conferences. The Chat interface has its own menubar, as well as a space for messages to be typed, a Send button, and a message display area below it. You can choose the color, size, and style of the text you send. You can also keep this compose window open during your Chat session, just position it on your screen so you can see the Chat window also. Refresh redraws the Chat window so you can see what others have written.
Rooms displays a list of available chat rooms and indicates which are active.
Users displays the list of users currently logged into the chat room. Close logs you out of the Chat Room. You must exit Chat using this button. The chat window shows special icons next to the user's names. You can carry out special tasks by clicking on the icons.