[Feature:Forum] Live Lecture Chat Room

[hansongu123]

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Prototype for #7207

What is the new behavior?

See #7207.

Steps to enable the feature:

In instructor's UI:

go to course settings

scroll down to toggle on live lecture chat:

Now a "Live Lecture Chat" option should be available on the left side menu.

Toggle start session to activate a chat room, then the chat room will be available for the students to join.

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Screenshots

Feature includes: Anonymous join - enable/disable in instructor's UI upon creating an editing a chatroom

Notes: The dynamic display of messages is currently through the use of WebSockets.

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[hansongu123]

I switched to this branch and ran a sumbitty_install as instructor went to sample and have this error preventing me to enter

@RayReyRam I updated the migration and the dump file, can you pull from this branch and try again? If that doesn't work, try (in vagrant ssh) calling migrator -e course rollback and migrator -e course migrate to manually apply the migration. If none of this works, try re-creating the sample courses: sudo bash /usr/local/submitty/GIT_CHECKOUT/Submitty/.setup/bin/recreate_sample_courses.sh --no_submissions in vagrant ssh.

@williamjallen Is this caused by the removal of the script in the migration file that edits all exiting configs?

[hansongu123]

@RayReyRam Thanks for the review, I find it really helpful! I added a step in the PR description for how to enable it as a sidebar item. I haven't added the mechanism to disable students to entering messages upon terminating a session, or limiting students' access to the entire chat history just yet. I would like to hear back from the reviewers and decide how to design these mechanisms.

[cjreed121]

This is on hold of being merged till https://github.com/Submitty/Submitty/issues/10296 is closed

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