[Building Sakai] online chat site-wide?

[Adrian Fish]

At a tool level, if the tool, Samigo for example, keeps state if you 
switch tools, disabling chat won't work as you'll be able to switch 
tools and chat for a bit before coming back. It'll have to be disabled 
at the site level. It seems a bit heavy to shut down chat just because 
Samigo is installed in a site though. The check could perhaps be 
floating chat checking for Samigo or Mneme being installed *and* visible 
and then disabling itself.

It'd have to be done in the portal as I assume we can't introduce 
dependencies on floating chat in tools like Samigo, or maybe we can with 
2.9 upwards.

Cheers,
Adrian.

On 07/02/2012 15:33, Matthew Jones wrote:
> It *sounds* like it is, and assuming he's doing his assessment from a 
> secure testing environment and a browser like  Respondus , the online 
> chat does still provide a in-system means of communicating with your 
> others in your class. It seems like it needs to be disabled/hidden in 
> certain tools, specifically the assessment ones. Ideally there would 
> be an option (which defaults to on) when the assessment is created 
> whether or not to disable the chat, and then only disable while it is 
> being administered. Though I'm feeling like it might be easier to do 
> it in the portal where we already do the browser check, and just also 
> do a tool.id <http://tool.id> check for specific tools.
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-21521
>
> I suppose it's possible the iframe location could change to a 
> different tool and the parent not know about it? It seems portal 
> should keep better track of the iframe locations, and it *looks* like 
> the onLoad method of the iframe will update the parent whenever the 
> location changes.
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Steve Swinsburg 
> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com <mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Which version Sakai? There is a new system wide chat tool in 2.9+,
>     which works via connections and site members. But this is the one
>     in the bottom right of the browse window. Is this the one you are
>     using?
>
>     cheers,
>     Steve
>
>
>     On 07/02/2012, at 7:02 PM, Fatima Rahiman wrote:
>
>>     Dear All
>>     We seem to  have strange  occurrence with our SAKAI instance
>>     whereby the chat tool is available site--wide...i.e. one can chat
>>     to  anyone logged on to the system hence this obviously poses a
>>     security risk if students  are engaged in assessments .I suspect
>>     that  this must do with some setting that hasn't been properly
>>     enabled. Can anyone please advise?
>>     Surely  the online chat tool should be course specific ?
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