Personal Rooms

The new CommSy feature "Personal Rooms" creates a dedicated area that is accessible only to room moderators and an individual student. The room moderators can assign individual tasks here and then correct them upon completion—visible only to the respective students. The moderator of a project room can enter any personal room within that project room; however, the student to whom a personal room is assigned does not automatically become the moderator of that room.

1. Creating Personal Rooms

There are two ways to enable this feature:

When Creating a New Project Room: When you create a new project room, the option to activate the feature will be presented directly in the usual list of settings options. Please note that this option only appears once you have selected that the new room is a project room.

For an Existing Project Room: If you already have a project room for which you want to enable the feature, you can do this in the room settings of the respective project room. Navigate to the "Extensions" section via the left column. Under the menu item "Personal Rooms," check the box next to "Activate Personal Rooms?" Scroll down and click "Save."

If you are a moderator of the project room, you are also a moderator in all associated personal rooms. However, the person assigned the personal room by name is not automatically a moderator of their own personal room. 

2. Entering Personal Rooms

Go to the "People" category. Next to each room member, there is an icon to enter their associated personal room.

3. Adding Entries to Personal Rooms

You can create entries directly in personal rooms. Alternatively, you can perform a bulk action to add an entry to each personal room in the desired project room.

Note: This guide assumes that your "My Selection" area is currently empty. If not, ensure that only the entries intended for transfer to personal rooms are in "My Selection.".

1. To do this, it's best to create an entry in your personal storage area, accessible in the top menu.
2. Once the entry is saved and ready, click on "Select Action" and then "Select." Choose the desired entry and confirm your selection with "Execute Action."
3. Now, navigate to the project room where you want to add the entry to personal rooms. Go to the "People" category.
4. Select the option "Copy My Selection to Personal Rooms" under "Select Action." Choose all the individuals to whom the entry should be made available and confirm with "Execute Action."

4. Deleting Personal Rooms

The personal rooms provide teachers and individual students the opportunity to distribute work tasks and collect work results. Access to a specific personal room is only available to the moderators of the project room and a selected user, at any time. If a project room is deleted, all associated personal rooms will be deleted automatically. Personal rooms cannot be deleted individually. A detailed guide to the personal rooms can be found in the document 'Teaching Use of Personal Rooms (Guide for Teachers)' from the Institute for Quality Development in Schools Schleswig-Holstein under 'Download Guide' (external). Here you will learn how to create personal rooms and how to create, distribute, edit, and collect work assignments.