Chat Function as Office Hour Tool

jsoluri
Community Novice

Chat function as virtual office hour?   I was thinking about using this to have virtual office hours (partly to deal with students in very different time zones). However, my concern is about privacy: are all chats available to all students in the course?  If the answer is yes, does Canvas has any real time way to communicate with individual students (obviously I can email or use a different platform).  Thanks, John Soluri