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

1. Providing on-line classes with
BigBlueButton
Fred Dixon
BigBlueButton Project Manager
ffdixon@bigbluebutton.org
Jesus Federico
BigBlueButton Moodle Integration
jesus@blindsidenetworks.com

2. Overview
• BigBlueButton Overview
– Project Statistics
– Recent Activities
• LMS Integration
• BigBlueButton 0.81
• BigBlueButton Road Map
• Feedback

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.

4. Use Cases
1. One-to-one
2. Small group collaboration
3. One-to-Many (< 25)

5. Slides
Audio
Video
ChatDesktop Sharing

6. Screen shot

9. On the Shoulders of Giants
• red5
• FreeSWITCH
• swftools
• tomcat6
• redis
• nginx
• ffmpeg
• ghostscript
• ImageMagick
• OpenOffice
• grails
• scala
• popcorn.js
• FlexLib

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!)

11. Localization
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bigbluebutton/

12. code.bigbluebutton.org

13. • Recent Events

14. Canada Moodle Moot 2013

15. Canada Moodle Moot 2013

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/

19. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/06/25/mozilla-ignite-challenge-winner-announced

20. iMoot 2013
Held over 4 days (24h/day) with 64 Speakers using BigBlueButton
http://2013.imoot.org/

21. Best Open Source Application 2013
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/119652/bossie-awards-2013-the-best-open-source-applications-226975#slide30

23. http://www.virtualwag.com/

24. • LMS Support

25. Sakai
• Sakai CLE Integration
– Sakai Meeting Tool
– Created by Adrian Fish, Lancaster University
– Maintained by Jesus Federico, Blindside Networks
• Sakai OAE Integration
– LTI 1.1

26. Sakai Meeting Tool
• Create Meetings
– Recorded
– Duration
– Join Open/Join Close
Date
– Permissions
– Calendar
• Manage Recordings
– Publish/un-publish
– Delete

28. Join Meeting
View Recordings

29. Playback recording
(slides + audio + chat)

30. Canvas

31. Moodle
• BigBlueButtonBN and RecordingsBN
#11

32. Moodle Issue Tracker

33. Download from Plugins Database
• Full support for Moodle 1.9 and 2.x
• https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=2

34. After Installation
Click ‘Upgrade’
Insert URL and Security Salt for your BigBlueButton
server
URL
Salt
34BigBlueButton + Moodle Integration02/10/2013

37. Done!
• Roles automatically assigned
– Students -> Viewers
– Non-students -> Moderators
37BigBlueButton + Moodle Integration02/10/2013

38. • Our Eleventh release (0.81)

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

41. Unified Users and Listeners

42. Whiteboard
Hand pointer to move around
slides
Triangle
Lines
Text

44. Layout Manager

45. Change Layouts

46. Playback Chat
Audio, Video,
Desktop Sharing
Presentation
Slide Thumbnails

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

49. Dynamic config.xml
User #1
User #2
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.)

53. Ongoing Projects
• Current projects
– HTML5 client
– WebRTC
• Future activites
– iOS and Android

54. • HTML5 Client

55. BigBlueButton HTML5 Client
• Phase 1: Viewer client
– One-way: presentation, webcam, hear audio
– Two-way: chat
• Phase 2: Two-way audio/video
– Two-way audio/video using WebRTC
• Phase 3: Full Client
– Full implementation of all capabilities

60. • Prototype

61. http://www.bigbluebutton.org/2012/10/02/progress-on-bigbluebutton-html5-client/

62. Round #1: Comparison
Flash
HTML5 Client

63. iPad

64. Dearborn Michigan Test
(January 11, 2013)
iPad
Desktop

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

66. • bigbluebutton.org
• code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton
• github.com/bigbluebutton
• twitter.com/bigbluebutton
• facebook.com/bigbluebutton
• youtube.com/bigbluebuttonshare