What is "Virtual Office Hours"?
Virtual Office Hours (VOH)is an educational project which supplements existing faculty office hours, by providing:
- Faculty-student communication in chemistry and biochemistry
on a 24 hour basis
- Online question and answer sessions
- Online delivery of course materials
The VOH project, one of many UCLA projects experimenting with WWW technology,
utilizes departmental, campus, and world-wide networks to exploit distributed
hypermedia as a communication tool in the teaching of chemistry and
biochemistry.
Sponsorship
- The UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- The UCLA Office of Instructional Development
- Apple Computer
- The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Recommended Browsers
Virtual Office Hours for Students
- Send chemistry questions to course professors
- Receive answers from professors through public posting
- Browse other students' public questions with respective answers
- Browse course materials: problem sets, handouts, articles, exams, keys
- Download or print course materials
- Participate in online study groups
- Link to worldwide chemistry information resources
- Send confidential email communications to faculty
Virtual Office Hours for Faculty
- Assist students who miss live office hours
- Post answers to questions publically so all students can benefit
- Link related facts through hypertext
- Make course materials available without building or library hours limitations
- Map student questions conceptually through FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
- Teach concepts by linking to 3-D graphics, animations and audio tracks
- Utilize the instructional resources of worldwide chemistry
Student Endorsements: 96% of sophomore chemistry students polled say
YES to VOH!
The Department teaches more than
fifty undergraduate and graduate classes per quarter serving more that
five thousand students. More that one thousand students are chemistry
or biochemistry majors at UCLA.
voh@chem.ucla.edu //
Last revision: October 6, 1996