Making the Most of Office Hours

This guide lays out the case for a more proactive approach to office hours by instructors, and it offers concrete strategies for helping students understand and utilize office hours.

Viji Sathy holds varying formats of office hours to meet different student needs throughout the course, changing up when, where, and why she meets with students. She finds that these formats help to remove some of the barriers to participation.

This article details three simple strategies for making the most of office hours: not calling them office hours, encourage social learning during office hours, and leave the office.

This article recommends ten strategies for virtual office hours, each one a response to concerns about instructor accessibility raised by student surveys at Stanford University.