Instead of the Learning Manager entering lots of student usernames/passwords would it be easier to use a system like this wiki in which students Register. I am thinking it might work like this. The tutor would either generate emails for a set of students or post on a secure webpage the invite with a keyword. The keyword identifies the students as users for that Learning Manager. They register with their full name and are put in a practice room. The LM later assigns an actual room to each group. A lot less work for a LM and in some ways more secure - the user chooses their username and password. Feedback please.

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Canan has suggested the Facilitator has ability to close the Chat area.

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Nasser has suggested that turn-taking be an optional feature. Students don't like waiting.

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I've just worked through the manual to set up an activity, rooms and users in Interloc5, following the manual closely. However I came unstuck at a couple of points. Luckily Musbah was on hand to help overcome them, but simple additions in the manual would make contacting him unnecessary.
1) provide tips on how to cut and paste into the activity template from elsewhere (especially necessary for URLs). Right clicking doesn't work; pressing shift and insert does.
2) Setting up rooms. On Page 7 the manual says that by default Interloc will use the critical reasoning game. I relied on this, but as a result couldn't save the room. Musbah suggested I actually insert the critical reasoning template (which luckily I had on my computer) as sometimes the default doesn't work. Either this needs to be fixed or the user needs to be warned and told what to do in the event it happens.

Thanks! Sally

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I would prefer a new window to type in so that the scrolling on the screen does not mess it up. Clever tho the inline input box is, it isnt very practical

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If you can click on whole msg to activate event then use it as a Reply btn - no misunderstanding about which msg you are replying to then
Bolded msgs would be cleared by clicking once, replied to by clicking twice

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Web forums have a std L shaped link between parent msg and child msg . I think it would help here to show how they are linked. The problem is how to link messages that are not contiguous

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