[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] online chat site-wide?

[Steve Swinsburg]

That sounds like a pretty good solution to me Matt. 

Cheers
Steve

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On 08/02/2012, at 2:33, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> 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 check for specific tools.
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> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-21521
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Steve Swinsburg <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
> 
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> 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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