## Creating a new chat room

Note: To complete the procedures in this document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. To view a list of permissions associated with a given role, see Permissions, roles, and tools. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and Roles: Overview.

If you have sufficient permissions, you can use the Chat Room tool to create multiple chat rooms within a course or project site. Though a site can have multiple chat rooms, only one can be displayed at a time. This feature essentially allows a site leader to archive old chats.

To create a new chat room, follow these steps:

1. In the menubar, click `Chat Room`.
2. Click `Options`.
3. Under "Which chat room will be displayed?", click the radio button beside `Use a new Chat Room called`, and type a name for the chat room in the accompanying text box.
4. Under "How many messages will be displayed?", select from the radio buttons to indicate how many messages you would like displayed.
5. Click `Update Options`.