Staff

The Staff tab shows a list of instructors, monitors, and administrators at Homeschool Connections. 

Clicking on any individual will show their Staff Biography page, which shows the staff member's biography, image, and any courses they may be teaching:

Anyone can use the Start a conversation button to open a new chat window, and adjust notifications:

Chats are by-user, not by-conversation, so the same conversation window will be used for all communications. This may be revisited in the future, but for now, this makes controlling participation in the conversation ("Get notified when participating" in the upper right) easier.