BigBlueButton is a Web Conferencing System for Online Learning
BigBlueButton
Integrated virtual classrooms for online learning
Enovation are proud to announce their partnership with Blindside Networks, the creator of the open-source web conferencing system BigBlueButton, designed for online learning. With this partnership, Enovation’s customers will enjoy an integrated virtual classroom within Moodle platform. BigBlueButton is also compatible with the enterprise-level LMS Totara Learn.
BigBlueButton supports real-time sharing of slides, audio, video, chat, and desktops. It also offers online classroom tools such as the whiteboard markup for annotating presentations in real-time. BigBlueButton also records all content for later playback for students who may have missed a class.
Through this partnership, Blindside Networks will provide Enovation’s customers hosting for a Free Tier of BigBlueButton. This session is limited to 50 users, does not include breakout rooms and recordings are automatically deleted after 7 days. To avail of the premium hosting service, please feel free to contact us.
Below are just some of the features of BigBlueButton we love at Enovation!
Enovation uses BigBlueButton and is not endorsed or certified by BigBlueButton Inc. BigBlueButton and the BigBlueButton Logo are trademarks of BigBlueButton Inc.
Engage Students
The Free Tier of BigBlueButton offers some exciting features allowing students to raise hands, use emoticons to express their feedback on the course or participate to polls. Another form of student engagement is getting students kinetically involved in the lecture with the multi-user whiteboard.
Breakout Rooms
With breakout rooms instructors can give students their own sessions to collaborate (with time limits), monitor those sessions, and bring them back to the main room. Using breakout rooms increases collaboration among students and increases learning.
The breakout rooms are available in the Premium Tier.
Branded Landing Page
You can also use BigBlueButton outside the learning management system. Blindside Networks provides your institution with a Branded Landing Page as part of the Premium Tier. This makes it easy for faculty, staff, and other groups on campus to collaborate together outside the LMS.
If you want to add BigBlueButton to your LMS or enquire about it, please feel free to contact us.
“Enovation have been our technical partner since 2010. Since then, their service has been exemplary. We have never had any issues in being able to use the site – it has been available whenever we have needed it and users have been spread globally in that time. Maintenance is appropriately timetabled and whenever we have needed support or a response from them, it has been forthcoming very quickly.”
