INTERACTIVE TOOLKIT
BigBlueBotton (BBB) is open source virtual classroom software that has been designed around the real-world needs of teachers, students, and schools. It’s available in 55 languages. It is a part of learning management system (LMS).
Maturity Rate* (2009)
The indicator is based on the lifetime of the tool. The older it is, the more mature it is, more star it has.
Difficulty in the start time lessons
How easy/difficult it is to use it the first time.
Online / Downloadable
- Strenght: It’s easy to use in classroom and in adult education when installed in Learning Management System; is open source.
- Weakness: Efficiency of application highly dependent on the server configuration. Need of configuration through IT local support.
- Skills: Digital Skills; Methodological Skill; Personal Skill; Social Skill.
- Pedagogical approach: Streaming classroom; creation of virtual classroom.
- Mode: Blended; Face to Face; Online; Hybrid; Hyflex.
- Timing: 0-15’; 15’-60’, 60’-90’, 90’-120’, >120’; (only server limitation)
- Group size: 1-10; 11-15; 16-30; 31-80
- Teaching and learning: Online virtual synchronous learning with simple assessment with multiple answer to single question.
- Empowering learners: Facilitating learner’s digital competence.
- Devices available: Pc, touchscreen devices, smartphone, tablet.
BIGBLUEBUTTON
BigBlueBotton (BBB) is open source virtual classroom software that has been designed around the real-world needs of teachers, students, and schools. It’s available in 55 languages. It is a part of learning management system (LMS).
Instructure, Schoology, Jenzabar and D2L all ship their LMS with a native integration for BigBlueButton, and Moodle and Sakai have offer plugins for deep integration.
BBB is learning tools interoperability (LTI) 1.0 compliant for widest adoption.
CLASSROOM RESPONSE SYSTEM
Pedagogical background
This kind of tool can be effectively used in virtual and hybrid classroom, whenever the streaming from single user-camera in the classroom is needed with following options:
- Almost unlimited size of connected user (depends on server and API configurations).
- Teacher can engage students with use of:
- Sharing white board,
- Displaying uploaded presentation,
- Sharing the desktop,
- Voting/simple quiz option,
- Splitting students into internal groups (rooms).
- Possibility to restrict user and time access to the classroom and communication option (mute all or individual users).
- Possibility of recording the classroom.
- Automated presence list.
Assessment
Only simple voting/quiz is possible with bulk response.
Use cases/examples of usage: (tutorial)
Strenght: It’s easy to use in streaming classroom when API is configured or embedded into LMS; open source.
Weakness: Need of installation and configuration. Limiting demo online use through https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/
People opinion about the tool: https://www.capterra.com/p/162664/BigBlueButton/reviews/
Similar Tool: Webex, to some extent: Zoom Meetings; Skype; BrainCert; StarLeaf.
Technical and operational requirements: PC/mobile in order to create meeting and access.
License Tool: Open source with options.
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