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| A chat tool that allows users to chat in a group or one-on-one. It may be accessed via a web browser or a standalone application. | Communication between UWF employees (and student employees). | Students are not allowed to join existing UWF Slack workspace. Although new workspaces can be created, all users must be invited manually, so not optimal for use by faculty with their courses. | Google Hangouts MeetGoogle Chat | A tool built into our G Suite Google Workspace for Education platform. May be accessed via https://meetchat.google.com/ or with a Windows PC application or Mobile (iOS/Android) App to chat in a room, group, or one-on-one. Google Hangouts Meet is a video chat tool, but can be used as text only by disabling audio and video if preferred. | Communication between users with Google accounts. | A meeting must be scheduled and users invited each time before chatting can take place. Not well suited for on-going chat. Defaults to video meeting. |
| Google Hangouts Chat | A tool built into our G Suite for Education platform. May be accessed via https://hangouts.google.com/ to chat in a group or one-on-one. | Communication between users with Google accounts. | Users may experience issues attempting to chat with users in different domains (e.g., uwf.edu vs. students.uwf.edu) | |||
| This can be through direct messages, group messages, or rooms. See Getting Started with Google Chat. | Since anyone can create a room within UWF Google Chat, ITS has documented a process for registering a Managed Room in Google Chat. | |||||
| Canvas Course Chat | Each Canvas course has a chat tool available to allow instructors and students to communicate with their entire class. This tool must be enabled by the instructor in the course settings for it to appear in the navigation bar. | Available by default in eLearning course. An efficient way to chat all your students as there is no need to add them individually. | No one-on-one chat option. Chats are visible to everyone in the course. | |||
| Google Meet | A chat tool that works in conjunction with Webex Meetings. Allows users tool built into our Google Workspace for Education platform. May be accessed via https://meet.google.com/ to chat in a group , or one-on-one, or to quickly launch a Meetings video conference. | On-going communication with UWF employees and students. | May be overly complicated for simple chat usage.. Google Meet is a video chat tool. | Communication between users with Google accounts. | A meeting must be scheduled and users invited each time before chatting can take place. Not well suited for on-going chat. Defaults to video meeting. |
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Yes! All of the options listed on this page may be accessed from mobile devices. Search the app store for the chat tool you would like to use! |
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