Global Chat

Blocks ::: block_gchat
Maintained by Bruno Sampaio
Part of set Cubic.
Global chat for Moodle. With this plugin teachers and students can communicate in real time through Moodle.
Latest release:
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109 downloads
35 fans
Current versions available: 1

This plugin introduces a chat for Moodle very similar to Google Chat or Facebook Chat. It uses a block to list all online users that are part of all courses a user is subscribed to, and opens a chat window on the bottom of the page when a online user is clicked.

The advantages of this chat are:
- Users don't need to open a separate window to use this chat, while Moodle activity chat needs them to do so;
- A user can establish a real time conversation with other online users subscribed to the courses this user belongs to;
- Users can change between pages and their open conversations will always be there;

If you are a student use it to collaborate with your colleagues, or to ask questions to your teachers.
If you are a teacher use it to communicate with your students individually.

We believe Moodle needs a different chat concept, that's why we decided to create this plugin. It still needs some improvement, but first we would like to know what people think about this idea smile

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  • Arun
    Wed, 24 Sept 2014, 7:21 PM
    Hey Bruno,
    For me, rapidly it is showing "The connection with the server was lost!" with my centos server and moodle 2.5. Even i configured supervisord.conf but no luck still getting the same error. Here the question is why disconnection is happening after some time and in the logs it is saying "An error has occurred: Error reading from database". It is quite interesting i don't know, after disconnection happens if i kill port running then it is connecting(I know this is happening because of supervisor). Can you please help with this hell??
  • Mark Williamson
    Tue, 4 Nov 2014, 3:42 AM
    I installed gchat into my Moodle local instances 2.7 and 2.4, it installed fine. However, when I tried running the run.php file, it said...
    !!!
    Error: Database connection failed

    It is possible that the database is overloaded or otherwise not running properly.

    The site administrator should also check that the database details have been correctly specified in config.php

    !!!

    The moodle instance is working fine, I even tried changing the config to use root user for DB, but got same message. Just wondering if you ever came a cross the error before.
    Php version is PHP 5.5.14 (cli)
    Any advice appreciated.
  • Jonatas Treptow
    Thu, 13 Nov 2014, 8:46 PM
    Como faço pra instalar em um Windows Server?
  • Gustavo André
    Wed, 19 Nov 2014, 5:42 PM
    Olá, baixei seu plugin e adorei a ideia dele! Mas uso um tema chamado Essential (https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=theme_essential), parece que seu plugin e o tema não são compatíveis... Quando estou logado no tema padrão do Moodle o chat funciona normalmente, mas quando estou usando o Essential o chat não aparece, só aparece uma faixa branca no lugar dele no rodapé do site. O que devo fazer para corrigir o problema?

    Hello , I downloaded your plugin and loved the idea of it ! But I use a theme called Essential ( https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=theme_essential ) , it seems that your plugin and theme are not compatible ... When I'm logged in the default theme for Moodle chat works normally, but when I'm using Essential chat does not appear , a white band only appears in his place at the footer of the site . What should I do to fix the problem ?
  • can meşe
    Fri, 27 Mar 2015, 12:05 AM
    You should make easy of installation. I have problem about connection. Warning messages is : "The connection with the server was lost!" How will we solve?
  • Andrew
    Mon, 11 May 2015, 9:55 PM
    Hi Cesar,

    This is working fine in Moodle 2.6 and Windows Server 2008 and 2012.

    However, I'm exploring the working combinations for browsers. So far, on the Mac - I need to use Firefox and the PC, Internet Explorer to pick up all Global Chat users. Otherwise, I get fewer people. I'm going to see if I can pinpoint the best browser versions/configs.

    Bruno - This is a fantastic plugin.

    Thank you for your hard work.
  • Jonatan martinez
    Wed, 23 Sept 2015, 6:23 AM
    Cuando podremos ver este modulo para moodle 2.8, 2.9 y superiores. Como tambien si es posible inactivar el chat cuando se acceda a un cuestionario.
    Gracias
  • Oscar Cossio
    Wed, 2 Dec 2015, 12:23 AM
    Alguien sabe como puedo arracanr el archivo run.php, en la terminal de mi servidor al intentar ejcutar el archivo la terminal no lanza ningun resultado, ni como error, ni ocmo nada. Solo se queda haciendo algo. Teno entendido que despues de agregado el bloque, solo es ir al direcotrio de gchat con la terminal y luego con el comando "php run.php" ejecutarlo. Alguien que pueda ayudarme con este tema, se los agradecría.

    Feliz tarde.
  • Maurício Dal Bem Wrezinski
    Thu, 3 Dec 2015, 9:25 PM
    Olá Bruno.
    Fiz a instalação do plugin, porém quando adiciono ele ao curso acaba aparecendo apenas uma mensagem "The connection with the server was lost!"
    O que pode ser isso? Problema na configuração/instalação talvez?
  • Deák István
    Mon, 18 Apr 2016, 5:35 PM
    Dear Bruno!
    I installed and completed the required settings during the Moodle 2.8, but unfortunately it does not work.
    In the near future will you update to the Moodle 2.8 the Gchat module?
    Thanks in advance!
  • Flameater Flameater
    Sun, 25 Sept 2016, 7:55 PM
    Hi Bruno, Great effort! However, I also get the Connection With Server Was Lost error as many others on this forum. And I don't see any of your answer to that. Are you still supporting this plugin? If not, you may as well let us know and we do not waste our time trying to get it to work anymore. Thank you for trying to contribute any how.
  • Noa Randriamalaka
    Tue, 30 May 2017, 4:56 PM
    We wish to use the plugin GLOBALCHAT but we meet a problem with HTTPS, did you find a solution to this problem? The plug - in does not work in HTTPS
  • Joubou Lerrick
    Fri, 28 July 2017, 5:31 PM
    Hi @Bruno
    I've installed this plugin on my Moodle Website with Moove Theme but it's not showing anything even if it's active in plugins list.
    What should i do? My Moodle Version is 3.3
  • Manoj Thakur
    Wed, 18 Dec 2019, 6:55 PM
    The connection with the server was lost!
    How to fix?
  • Florian Tolk
    Thu, 23 Mar 2023, 9:41 PM
    Is there an installation guide? I installed it from the zip file, and it comes up as an active plugin, but I cannot seem to find the global chat anywhere when I look for it.
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