Hi there! 🎉
Welcome to OHQ, a ****centralized online office hours system that helps instructors like you manage office hours easily and intuitively, so you can focus on teaching and your students can focus on learning in office hours. This guide will walk you through using OHQ, so your experience holding office hours can be as easy and straightforward as possible.
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Once you log in to OHQ, click 'Dashboard' on the left, and then 'Create Course' under 'Instructor Courses'. If you do not see this option, please email [email protected].
Fill in the relevant information and settings for your course. You can modify the information and settings at any time after creating the course.
OHQ currently supports Zoom, BlueJeans, Google Meet, and Whereby meetings links. Please email us at [email protected] to request additional link support.
And that's it! You've created your course on OHQ, and you're ready to add students and instructors to the course.
Now that you've created the course, you need to help your students and fellow instructors access the course!
If your course is invite-only:
Click into your course, and select 'Roster' on the left. Click 'Invite' on the top right. Now, enter the email addresses of the students or instructors you want to add to your course. Choose their role (either Student, TA, Head TA, or Professor). Click 'Invite' to send them their invitations.
🚨 Make sure you invite students and instructors with email addresses that start with a Pennkey! For example: [email protected]. Students or instructors with alternative email address formats will not be able to log in to OHQ. 🚨
You can change the role of an instructor at any time. To change the role of a student, you must remove or revoke their original invitation and send them a new invitation.
If your course is not invite-only:
Your students can join the course directly from https://ohq.io/. When they log in, they can click 'Dashboard' on the left and click 'Join Course'. From this pop-up, they can search your course, by name or by course code, and join the course.
Your instructors must be invited to the course. Follow the instructions above to invite instructors via email.