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Chat rooms can be found under My Rooms, Open Rooms, or Limited Access in the lobby. They are organized by task, i.e. a math problem posted for group(s) to work on.
Under each task, you can see a list of chat rooms (if any) that were created to hold discussion for that particular task. See the example below (you can also click here to see a movie clip illustrating the same points):


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In the example above, there are two rooms under the task "Sticks", i.e. Sticks room A and andStones. Following the name of each room is a list of users who have access to the room or, in other words, who are members of the room.

The way a user name is printed in the list shows that person's status. If the user name is printed in green, then that person is currently online, i.e. signed in the lobby. Otherwise, the user name will be printed in gray, meaning that person is not online. If a user is online and currently in a room, then his name will be printed in bold green in the list corresponding to that room.

The user name of the owner of a room is the first one on the list. For instance, for team  Sticks room A  above, the owner of the room is Gerry. This is because user with login name Gerry created the room (see Creating a Room for more details). A room owner has the right of granting room access permission (or room membership) at a user's request when the room was created as Limited Access type.