I have read the article about disabling the course chat in Canvas LMS. I teach in a k-6 school and would like to disable the course chat for my courses. How do I disable the course chat feature?
Hi @JenniferOstrows,
Assuming you mean the default Chat tool that Canvas cloud has available on the left hand course menu, you can follow the How do I manage Course Navigation links? - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com) guide to disable the Chat item. If this doesn't work for you, please let us know!
-Chris
Good morning!
@JenniferOstrows , were you able to disable this feature successfully?
@chriscas I just got a call from a principal because a teacher disabled the Chat feature on the menu, but students are still accessing Chat via the URL. I'm not sure what that means - what URL could they be using? Is it possible they have something cached? Do you have any insights?
Thank you!
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