The eduFire Blog

Note: This post is written by Scott Johnson, one of the people behind the engineering driving eduFire. He’ll show up here more and more as we start blogging about our new features.
A new feature you’ll find on eduFire is our just launched instant messaging. With our instant messaging feature you can:

• See whenever a teacher is online
• Send them a question instantly
• Arrange times for future sessions interactively — “Is next tuesday @ 10 good for you” instead of going back and forth proposing and counter proposing a session
• Pass documents back and forth with your teacher

Here’s some screenshots to show how this works:

Teachers or students online now are indicated with a green box around their profile picture.

To chat with someone select the Invite to Chat link.

Here you are in the chat room talking with your teacher or student.

And if you’re on eduFire but need to control your availability because you have an upcoming session and don’t want to be instant messaged then you can always set yourself to invisible. Teachers also have an additional setting, Ready to Teach, to explicitly indicate when they’re ready for teaching and taking on clients.

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