Chat communication tool

Opigno Chat makes possible for students to communicate together.

It can be very simple configured, allowing group messages or privates messages. This tool can help you improve the collaboration inside your class or course.

This is an additional tool that requires to be installed from the Apps management interface (please refer to the section dedicated to Apps management for more details - Apps management).

Once installed, it is visible on the homepage of Opigno platform.

Configuration

The configuration can be done from the following URL: /admin/config/drupalchat/configuration

You can first choose the best suited polling method: by default it relied on normal AJAX

You can then configure the chatroom ergonomy (sound/theme/pictures/smiley)

You can also decide to log chat messages or not

Anonymous users : you can decide how will be names anonymous users, with a prefix and a number. Ex : Guest 3596 / Guest William

You can define the chat latency

Chat moderation and visibility

You can decide to activate or not « public chatrooms » (not activating them can avoid an important moderation workload).

You can choose on which pages the chat should be available

Configuring permissions

Finally, you will have to configure the access rights to the chat, using the dedicated Drupal interface at: admin/people/permissions