BigBlueButton for Open LMS
Designed around the use cases of real-world students, teachers, and schools, BigBlueButton is a purpose-built virtual classroom that grabs and maintains student attention in an age of distraction. Developed by the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, BigBlueButton expands beyond the features offered by generic web conferencing packages to offer screen sharing, multi-user whiteboards, breakout rooms, group polling, and much more.
Behind the scenes, BigBlueButton collates data about your sessions, making crucial insights available via a learning analytics dashboard. With visibility on students’ online, talk, and webcam time, alongside other interactions such as emoji and hand-raiser use, the platform also provides a color-coded activity score, helping you identify students who may benefit from additional instructor attention.
BigBlueButton Key Features
Add robust classroom web conferencing capabilities to your Open LMS toolkit by integrating BigBlueButton. The solution includes these exciting features:
- Multi-user whiteboard, breakout room, and polling functionality, helping you switch up your sessions, explore key ideas in greater depth, and maintain engagement
- Bandwidth flexibility with low-, medium-, and high-resolution video options that keep your classes inclusive of all learners
- Learning analytics dashboards serving information about who attends and participates directly in your sessions
- Chat function with user lists and visibility over when attendees are typing
- Document uploader allowing you to serve presentations, PDFs, images, and other documents alongside your classes
- Shared notes capability to aid real-time group collaboration
- Hand raiser and emoji functionality that maintains learner feedback