Using Office Hours

Authors: Jedi Tsang, Daniel Wang

Office Hours Policies

Office hours will be provided both in-person and online. We will be using Zoom to host online office hours. All office hours start on Berkeley time.

The office hours schedule can be found on the calendar page.

Office Hours will be one of the main resources you use for help. We have very particular policies for assisting students in office hours, so we can get to as many students as possible. It is very important that you follow all these guidelines carefully, otherwise you may be skipped when trying to get help. These policies are repeated here and on the Office Hours Queue.

To get help in Office Hours this semester:

  1. Create a ticket on the Office Hours Queue, and specify what room you are in (Zoom or physical).
  2. Select whether your question is conceptual or debugging. Conceptual tickets are for general questions you may have about an assignment, policy, past exam, or anything about the course. Debugging tickets are for getting staff help on coding assignments, meaning we will need to see your code.
  3. The Office Hours Queue will notify you once a staff member grabs your ticket off the queue. Note that we typically only spend about 10 minutes with you, unless it’s a setup issue. If this time is not enough, you can always get on the queue again.

We use an office hours website built by one of the members of our course staff, Meshan Khosla. The main features for creating a ticket and receiving help are identical to the above, but we will describe how to sign in and additional features below.

If you have issues or suggestions, please let a member of course staff know or create a post on Ed!

Signing In

To sign in, click the button in the top right after opening the website. Note: you must use your @berkeley.edu email!

Online Office Hours

You can find the link to online office hours in the calendar, as well as here: https://berkeley.zoom.us/my/cs61b.

Note that you must be signed into your Berkeley zoom account in order to access online office hours. You can do this by selecting “sign in with SSO” and typing “berkeley”, which will take you to the CalNet authentication page.

As soon as you join the Zoom meeting, you will enter the main session, and will see many breakout rooms open. Simply select any of the open breakout rooms and join it. Once you’re in, you can place a ticket on the queue - make sure to specify your breakout room number in the location!

Break Between :00 and :10

Please note that staff will be on break between the hour (:00) and until Berkeley time (:10). Staff work hard to make sure you’re able to get the help you need; they need breaks too!