Fred Dixon's Session Presentation: Looking for open source solutions for synchronous learning? Fred Dixon, product manager for BigBlueButton, and Becky Roehrs, from Durham Tech, will demonstrate the latest version of BigBlueButton, an open source web conferencing system for online learning. The presentation will cover (a) how you can use BigBlueButton for real-time sharing of audio, video, chat, presentations, and desktops with remote students, and (b) the integration of BigBlueButton with Moodle, Sakai, and Wordpress.
Presenter(s): Rebekah Roehrs (Durham Tech CC); Fred Dixon (BigBlueButton/Blindside Networks)
When? At 3:45pm to 4:45pm, Monday 30th September
Where? NC3ADL, In 306B, Raleigh Convention Center
3. Our Mission
We believe every student with a web browser should
have access to a
high-quality on-line learning experience.
We intend to make that possible with BigBlueButton.
10. BigBlueButton Project
• 1.5k members on developer mailing list
• Activity: 15k messages
• GSOC 2010
• Forked over 1.4k times on GitHUB
• Facebook (2.4k likes), Twitter (1.9k Followers)
• Localized into 35 languages
• Mozilla WebFWD 2011 Graduate
• Install in 30 minutes (or your money back!)
16. BigBlueButton is an innovative solution that effectively
replaces the previous technology at a much lower cost
and meets the changing demands of our institution for
delivery of teaching and learning.
– Darren Rickets, Project Manager/Technical
Lead for ICT, University of West Scotland
http://www.bigbluebutton.org/2013/04/20/uofws-wins-commendation-award-for-study-on-bigbluebutton/
Case Study wins commendation award
17. Recent Tweets
@normz - Don Christie, ex-President of the NZ Open Source Society
Keynote Speech, Moodle Moot NZ 2013
18. Mozilla Ignite Challenge
We’ve partnered with Chris Kennenberg, Dearborn
Michigan Public Schools.
https://mozillaignite.org/apps/374/
39. Overview of Process
• BigBlueButton 0.81-dev
– Design and Development
• BigBlueButton 0.81-beta
– Updated packaging and documentation
– Tested build environment (packaging and VM)
– No major bugs
• BigBlueButton 0.81-RC
– Open bugs: 0
– Final testing with community
• BigBlueButton 0.81 Released
0.81-RC2
40. Features
• Full Archiving
• Accessibility for students with Disabilities
• Text tool for Whiteboard
• Layout Manager
• Unified Users and Listeners
• APIs for 3rd party integration
– Specify default layout, JavaScript API for the client
• Update of icons and skin
• Support for IMS Learning Tools Integration
47. Accessibility
• UI is compatible with
Screen Readers
– JAWS
– Implementation by
Seneca College
48. JavaScript Interface
• Control via JavaScript
– Change the layout
– Join audio
– Mute/unmute
– Stop/start webcam
– Inject chat
– Get user information
New API Demo
50. LTI Certification
$ bbb-conf --lti
URL: http://test-install.blindsidenetworks.com/lti/tool.xml
Customer: bbb
Secret: b00be971feb0726fa697671c9cf2e883
Icon URL: http://test-install.blindsidenetworks.com/lti/images/icon.ico
• Certified LTI 1.0
– http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/detail.cfm?ID=172
• BigBlueButton can is an LTI enabled tool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSTGfvICYX4#t=74
51. Looking out beyond 0.81
• Record and Playback
– Start/stop
• Additional components
– Synchronized video playback
– Polling
– Shared Notes
– Breakout rooms
52. • User Interface
– Full Screen support for client (F5)
– Support for right-to-left languages
• Whiteboard
– Mathematical symbols
– Shared drawing
• Usability
– Pre-flight checklist (java, flash, bandwidth, etc.)
65. Summary
We believe every student with a web browser should
have access to a
high-quality on-line learning experience
We intend to make that possible using BigBlueButton