Zoom Office Hours

As with much else this quarter, we are using Zoom for office hours. Each TA has set up a recurring Zoom meeting during their schedule office hour time, and you can find those times and links on the Canvas Zoom calendar for the course. Here's the current plan for how office hours will work this quarter. Please let us know if there are things we could be doing differently to do a better job of helping you.

• You won't be able to connect to an office hour Zoom meeting until the host TA has started the meeting. We won't enable the "allow participants to join before host" setting, so if you are able to join the meeting, that means the TA is there, although maybe in a breakout room helping someone else right now.


• Office hour Zoom meetings don't have waiting rooms. That means when you can connect to a meeting, you'll be in the main room. Wait there until the TA rejoins the main room if they are currently in a breakout room, and feel free to chat and work with others while you're waiting.


• If more than a few people show up at the same time, we need to keep track of who arrived first so we can get to people in the right order. If you don't see the TA (because they are in a breakout room), or if there are a lot of people waiting around, please follow this link: CSE 333 20au Office Hour Queue Signup Sheet and add your name at the end of one of the lists. One list is for people who have questions that likely will take only a few minutes to answer, the other is for people with questions that will likely take longer. Please be fair and pick the right list so we can help as many people as efficiently as possible.


• If lines get long or things are really crowded, the TA on duty will try to get other TAs to join the meeting and help out. Also, if several people have similar questions, it might be possible to work with small groups on a topic to take care of several questions at once -- but that will depend on the questions and what sort of help people need. And feel free to help each other out while you're in the main room waiting for your turn.


• Office hour Zoom meeting are not recorded.