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When today I logged into MyEC, I was just planning on killing time because its a Sunday. As I was about to join the chat room I found something peculiar along side the chatting room button and I was like 'I found something !!', it looked something like a button at the bottom right corner of my screen and I was like 'Ooo what does this button do!!'

It was on top of the old chat room bar.

And I couldn't held back any more and just had to click on it and Voila! This is what I found!

I had to investigate further to know more about it, therefore I started from the left.

Home Button: Clicking on it brings you to My EnglishClub Homepage.

Announcements Button: This button provides a section where any English Club announcements can be found, relating to any kind of activities and/or events.

Chatroom Button: The Chatroom button pops up a window which provides with three options.
First, it shows the lobby which shows the list of available Chatrooms.
Second, it allows us to create our own private chatting space.
Third, we can pop-out the chat window and open it as a separate window in the browser.

Clicking Create Chatroom asks us the type of chatroom we want to create.
1. Public room anybody can join.
2. Password protected & password shared with chosen ones.
3. Invitation only,  only you can invite your friends it will not be displayed in the lobby.

Single Player Games Button: This button enlists various single user games, organized as per genre.
You can select any category you fancy and start playing by just one click.

Facebook & Twitter Buttons: These buttons allow you to interact/follow MyEC on these popular social networking sites.

Scroll To Top Button: This button is the most useful thing for me, instantly gets me to the top of the page.

Offline/Online Button: By Clicking on this button you can access the members online/connected to MyEC as shown below.

The different colored circles along the names of the users indicate their Status.

You can communicate with any user by clicking on them.

You can search for a user by typing the name in the 'Find a user' box.

By clicking on the user name I initiated a chat session with my friend Yupa, and I was surprised with the loads of options I was provided with.

Here are details of the options listed:-

1.  The Audio/Video Call option to Initiate a call with a user.

2. The Share your screen feature which allows you to share your background.

3. The Handwriting option which allows you to write using a pen & send as an image.


4. This is the Play game option which allows you to play a game with your friend.

5. Share a whiteboard lets you share a white space where you can write, type and draw and have fun with your friend.

6. Share a collaborative document allows you to edit a document online in real time while other users can also see/edit the document. It allows you save the document and share/embed at other locations as well.

7. Share a file from your computer with the user.


8. Clear conversation button to clear all the conversation.


9. Show/hide time option if you want the time to be shown alongside the messages.

Chat Options Button: This button provides you with options to change your status like go offline, put a status message, enable/disable notification sounds as shown below.

You can set your status by writing in the box below 'My Status' and then click 'Set my status'.

You can choose from different options

1. Available
2. Busy
3. Invisible
4. Offline

You can enable/disable the sound notifications and popup notifications by selecting/deselecting the check box.

Close This Bar Button: If you are not willing to use the toolbar, then you can always choose to close it.

I hope that it helps you to understand, as I was trying to understand myself. There can be many things that I might have missed and welcome anything that adds to the information.

Regards

Owais Sheikh