Creating Personal Chat Rooms - Open to Selected Individuals

Personal chat rooms are restricted to selected individuals or groups; participants can include anyone enrolled in an ICON course for which you are an instructor; you can also other users who have HawkIDs or ICON guest accounts. Your students can also create Personal chat rooms.

1. Click Chat in the NavBar.
2. Click New Chat.
3. Enter a title (one easily recognizable by students).
4. Select Personal Chat.
5. Enter a description (optional).
6. Click Create.
7. On the Chat List, click the View Members icon to the right of your new Personal chat (under Actions). This takes you to the Members area.
8. Add or delete participants:
• To add individuals from this ICON course site, click Add Members (top). click the boxes next to the desired individuals, and click Add.
• To add individuals from another ICON course site in which you are an instructor, click Add Members (top). Click Select Different Course (top of popup window). Click the title of the other ICON course. Then click in the boxes next to the desired participant(s) and click Add.
• To add an individual by HawkID or ICON guest account (e.g., g_GBurns), click Add Personal Contact (top). Search for the HawkID or guest account name. Then check the box next to the ID in the search results and click Add.
• To remove individuals, click the the checkbox next to the names and click the Delete icon.

Notes:

When you add someone by HawkID, you don't receive any confirming information, such as first and last name. Inaccurate or partial searches don't work. For instance, if you are searching for John Doe (Hawk ID jdoe), entering doe will not work; only jdoe will work. You can find the correct Hawk ID by going to the University of Iowa homepage, clicking Phonebook/Email (bottom), and then clicking on the person's name,

28 April 2008