Platform Chat

Rogue Arena includes a built-in chat (Rogue Chat) that lives on the arena home alongside your scenario. Use it to coordinate with teammates, ping your instructor, or drop into a course room to ask the whole class a question — without leaving the platform.

The Chat Panel on the Dashboard

The chat panel sits on the right side of the arena home screen. It lists your conversations, communities, and direct messages — all visible at a glance the moment you log in.

Arena home with the Rogue Chat panel docked on the right, showing conversations and community rooms The Rogue Chat panel docked on the arena home — every conversation and room you have access to, one click away.

Opening Chat

Click any conversation in the panel to pop it out into a chat window. The window floats over your workspace so you can keep messaging while a VM is open.

Rogue Chat opened as a floating window with a sample conversation visible, the arena dashboard partly visible behind it Chat opened as a floating window — sample conversation in the ROPS-RT1 trial cohort with the dashboard still visible behind it.

Chat Categories

Rogue Chat organizes conversations into a handful of room types so it scales from a 1:1 ping all the way up to a 100-seat course:

Course rooms — automatically created for every course you’re enrolled in; everyone in the cohort plus the instructors are in the room
Live course iterations — when Rogue Labs hosts a live course (a bootcamp, a weekly cohort, an instructor-led workshop), students and instructors are placed in a shared room for that run — separate from the persistent course-wide room and removed when the course ends
Event rooms — temporary rooms for a one-off live event (workshop, hackathon, demo day) that disappear when the event ends
Custom groups — rooms you create yourself for any group of platform users (a squad, a study group, a project team)
DMs — one-to-one direct messages with any user on the platform
Custom DMs — multi-person direct message threads you spin up ad-hoc, without creating a full group

Features

Real-time messaging — messages appear instantly for everyone in the room
Unread badges — counts on the chat icon and per-conversation so you don’t miss updates while focused on a VM
Persistent history — every message is preserved; jump back into a course room weeks later and the thread is still there
Image pastes — paste screenshots directly into the message box for over-the-shoulder debugging