Saving time with Virtual/Electronic Office Hours
Add an HTML block to Moodle course page – insert link to virtual tool, save. Link now appears on the sidebar of the Moodle course page.
Strengths for all
- Gives commuting students time to meet without coming on campus
- Permits faculty to schedule office hours from the comfort of their homes
- The ability to reach a greater number of students
Weaknesses for all
- Possible Poor bandwidth
Zoom
Strengths
- Can add people by phone
- Schedule a meeting
- Lots of choices in ability to share, i.e. screen, window, whiteboard, ipad, partial screen
- Easy to use
Weaknesses
- Meeting time limited to 40 minutes each with free version
- Must pay for pro version for longer meeting times
Google Meet
Strengths
- Can add people by phone
- Free – for now
- Can present entire screen or window – may be helpful for google tools online
- Easy to use
Weaknesses
- Yet another Google enterprise
- Cannot be scheduled ahead of time
- Not as much flexibility in sharing screens – one window or entire screen
- Does not work on Sarfari, and Firefox use is experimental, according to Google. Chrome is browser to use.