Under Security, we recommend selecting Waiting Room, so students don’t interrupt one another.

Under Date and Time, check the Recurring Meeting box.

Topic: give the meeting a name of your choice, such as “Virtual Office Hours”.

In the Schedule Meeting dialog, set the following settings:.

(If you’re unfamiliar with the client, here are basic written instructions on scheduling with it, and here are video instructions on scheduling a recurring class meeting with it.)

While you can do this a number of ways–using the web portal, or with a browser plugin–we’ll cover using the Zoom desktop client, which is the simplest and most reliable. The first step is to create your recurring meeting space in Zoom. If you don’t plan to hold virtual office hours–just physical, in person ones–you can skip down to the next section. With Zoom’s recurring meeting feature, you can also use the same setup to manage your virtual office hours.

You can use to Google Calendar’s Appointment slots feature to make scheduling your office hours easier: students can schedule themselves for an available appointment, and you’ll get an automatic email telling you your time has been booked.

Google calendar available time slots