Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: In Fall 2007,  introduced "virtual office hours" into Harvard College's introductory computer science course, CS 50, so that students could meet with teaching fellows (TFs) online to discuss problem sets at any hour from anywhere. Our goals re to lor the bar to interaction among TFs and students and to improve the efficiency and convenience of the same. Rather than rely on email alone,  experimented with Elluminate, third-party software that not only allod students and TFs to chat via IM and VOIP, it also enabled the latter to see and even share control of the former's screens (eg, code in students' terminal windows). Students, in turn, re able to troubleshoot bugs with TFs by their (virtual) side.    surveyed our nearly 300 students on their experiences with office hours, both physical and virtual. Although most students responded positively to the idea of virtual office hours, only 55% logged in at least once. Hover, nearly the same number (62%) attended the physical.  ultimately judged our virtual office hours a net positive, with 14% of students attending the virtual (and 21% the physical) "often." But our experiment was not without some unexpected results.  found that wait times online sometimes matched or exceeded those in the physical lab, partly the result of the software's own shortcomings and students' habits online.   Ultimately, the audience for these virtual office hours was entirely self-selecting. Those students who liked the experience online opted in, whereas those who preferred more traditional help opted out.
['David J. Malan']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Virtualizing office hours in CS 50
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