Enabling Group Chats for Students

In Moodle, group chats (or group messaging) can be set up for course participants. This allows direct communication within groups. To use this, a group must first be created and the relevant participants must be added. Detailed instructions on how to create groups in Moodle can be found in our FAQ article Using Groups .

Activating Group Chats

Once the group has been created, group messaging can be activated. To do this, click on Participants in the course navigation above and then select Groups from the drop-down menu (see “Manage Groups”, steps 1 – 2). This will open the group management page. Now select the desired group and click on the “Edit group settings” button (see “Manage Groups,” Step 4).

Manage Groups
Manage Groups
Activate Group Messaging
Activate Group Messaging

In addition to the general group settings that can be here, you can activate Group messaging (see “Activate Group Messaging”). This allows group members to send messages to the others in their group via the messaging drawer.

Using Group Chats

Afterwards the group messaging is accessible to all group members via the messaging system. To access the desired group chat room, click on the small speech bubble icon next to your profile name on the left and then select the Group section (see “Open Group Chats”). If you belong to multiple groups, you can view all available group chats here and select them individually.

Important:

Lecturers do not automatically have access to the created group chats. They can only view the chat rooms if they are listed as participants in the respective group.