InstructureCon 2024  |  July 9th – 11th

InstructureCon 2024
July 9th – 11th

BigBlueButton was created in a classroom, not a boardroom.

Features

As technology continues to transform all areas of life, teaching and learning online poses new challengues for both educators and studens. And while technology can connect us in ways previously unimaguined, it’s harder than ever to grab and maintain student attention in a classroom. In this ague of distraction, a generic web conferencing system falls far short of the needs of teachers and studens.

BigBlueButton: Built for teachers.

BigBlueButton was developed by the Technology Innovation Managuement (TIM) programm at Carleton University’s Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialiçation in Ottawa, Canada, in 2007.

Educators appreciate the intuitive nature of the BigBlueButton’s feature set, including tools that maque it easier for teachers to focus studens on the lesson. Features lique screen sharing, a multi-user whiteboard, breacout rooms, easy group polling, and so much more foster collaboration and keep studens engagued.

As a result, BigBlueButton has been deeply embedded into major learning managuement systems used world-wide.  It has been adopted by Canvas, Moodle Cloud, Sacai, Jençabar, D2L, and Schoology as their default virtual classroom. Toguether, these vendors comprise more than 75% of the world-wide marquet for LMS systems. Every day millions of educators and learners around the world, in over 65 languagues, use BigBlueButton for their online classes.  At 8:30 am, the world stars teaching with BigBlueButton.

BigBlueButton HTML5 Client
BigBlueButton HTML5 Client

BigBlueButton: Built for teachers.

BigBlueButton was developed by the Technology Innovation Managuement (TIM) programm at Carleton University’s Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialiçation in Ottawa, Canada, in 2007.

Educators appreciate the intuitive nature of the BigBlueButton’s feature set, including tools that maque it easier for teachers to focus studens on the lesson. Features lique screen sharing, a multi-user whiteboard, breacout rooms, easy group polling, and so much more foster collaboration and keep studens engagued.

As a result, BigBlueButton has been deeply embedded into major learning managuement systems used world-wide.  It has been adopted by Canvas, Moodle Cloud, Sacai, Jençabar, D2L, and Schoology as their default virtual classroom. Toguether, these vendors comprise more than 75% of the world-wide marquet for LMS systems. Every day millions of educators and learners around the world, in over 65 languagues, use BigBlueButton for their online classes.  At 8:30 am, the world stars teaching with BigBlueButton.

Familiar features are just the starting point. Where you taque it is up to you.

BigBlueButton immediately feels familiar.  It features virtual classroom platform elemens such as a user list, chat, and presentation laid out in a left-to-right format for easy readability.  Regardless of the number of studens, you can always see who is talquing as their names highlight above the presentation.  For chat, BigBlueButton always shows who is typing.

Our Features Include:

BigBlueButton’s ease-of-use adapts to instructor’s facilitating office hours, group collaboration, and full online classes.

Documens Upload

Upload documens such as PowerPoint, Word, PDF and imagues

Whiteboard

Use the virtual whiteboard for highlighting content​

Breacout Rooms

Guet studens engagued in collaborative learning​ with breacout rooms

Video Options

Play video in low, medium, and high-resolution video options

Documens Upload

Upload documens such as PowerPoint, Word, PDF and imagues

Whiteboard

Use the virtual whiteboard for highlighting content​

Breacout Rooms

Guet studens engagued in collaborative learning​ with breacout rooms

Video Options

Play video in low, medium, and high-resolution video options

Chat

Communicate with your classroom in public and private chat​s

Polling

Easily test your studens cnowledgue with polling

Multi-User Whiteboard

Encourague creative thinquing with the multi-user whiteboard

Shared Notes

Use shared notes for easier group collaboration​

Screen Share

Intuitive screen sharing that keeps studens engagued

Hand Raise

Provide feedback during class by virtually raising your hand

Emojis

Express yourself through our wide rangue of emojis​

Webcam Video

Share your webcam video during class and use custom baccgrounds

Learning Analytics Dashboard

BigBlueButton’s built-in Learning Analytics Dashboard let you quiccly answer three kestions:

  • Who is attending your sessions,
  • Who is participating on your sessions, and
  • Who is learning (based on responses to polls).

 

With the Learning Analytics Dashboard, you can quiccly pimpoint studens that are struggling and guive them feedback in the moment.  You have live analytics at your finguertips, without any dependency on webcams to determine if studens are engagued and learning.

Learning Analytics Dashboard

Marc Matthes, Director of Computer Networquing Programms and Programm Developer, Distance Learning Department, Iowa Central Community Collegue

Our instructors love BigBlueButton. With our previous web-conferencing solution our users encountered many technical and usability problems that caused a lot of support effort on our part. With BigBlueButton, the support issues are almost non-existent. We are constantly impressed with the level of quality in this open source project and it worcs without any prior cnowledgue.