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Students are engaged through sharing of emoji icons, polling, and breakout rooms.

> Does the app offer any functionality for presenting slides via the computer screen during the presentation in a split screen format where instructors could see both slides and the speaker at the same time?Yes, you can use the desktop sharing to share a region of the first monitor while running BigBlueButton on a second monitor.> Does the app log when the students log into the conference and if they leave the page during a session?

Okay, I'm game. Oh, maybe it is trying to sneakily store a cookie without asking me. If a student on an iPad, for example, wanted to join a Canvas Conferences session. We've been working closely with Instructure since 2011 and supporting them with the integration of BigBlueButton into Canvas as Canvas Conferences. We recommend using FireFox or Chrome for best audio (IE and Safari work fine too).

So I set up a quick Zoom room, gave her the link, went back to the students left in Group 3 (did the microphone thing AGAIN) and gave them the link. BigBlueButton provides real-time sharing of audio, video, slides, chat, and screen. One student noted that Chrome might have been better for this experiment, and that is true, I was using Firefox. Students are engaged through sharing of emoji icons, polling, and breakout rooms. Group 3 had a problem. Chromebooks work fine as well.Yes. For some reason I seemed to have to "unlock" every student in the room, some of them multiple times as they left and returned. We are working on a version of desktop sharing that uses WebRTC (not Java) in FireFox and Chrome. This time I try logout, and it says to me that I will be returned to my main room.

Breakout Rooms. > Unfortunately the puffin browser is not an option for us as it is unfiltered and also cost prohibitive. course? The instructor can also close the breakout rooms early (before the time remaining expires) [3].BigBlueButton will disconnect/drop them from the audio from the main room I'd want to be able to verify that the "audience" attended the speeches.We don't have built-in attendance monitoring yet, but analytics are one of the areas we're looking at adding to a future version.I'm Fred Dixon, CEO of Blindside Networks and, with my open source hat on, the product manager for BigBlueButton. The BigBlueButton client is Flash based, so any browser (Mac, Unix, or PC) capable of running Flash would work. I tried it again, and now after quite some time, two arrows turning in a circle appeared. Here's a screen shot of BigBlueButton running on an iPad. Our instructors love BigBlueButton. Chromebooks work fine as well.Yes. And turned. Kind of like kicking the tires on a car that won't start. I explained our plan B rules before setting up the breakout rooms. > What technological requirements would students need to be able to join the conference? "Director of Computer Networking Programs and Program Developer, Distance Learning Department, Iowa Central Community College We recommend using FireFox or Chrome for best audio (IE and Safari work fine too). The Learning curve is low, and it runs smoothly most of the time. You can record a conference, use the whiteboard function, add files, share your screen, conduct polls during conference sessions, and even use breakout rooms.

There was one student already there who had used BBB in the previous course in the morning, but now her microphone was not working. Luckily, this was in a new tab, so the main room was still there, except that I had to DO THE MICROPHONE THING AGAIN. Looking for a professional solution for teaching remote students online? Nope. Why ask this all the time? Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.

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> Does the app offer any functionality for presenting slides via the computer screen during the presentation in a split screen format where instructors could see both slides and the speaker at the same time?Yes, you can use the desktop sharing to share a region of the first monitor while running BigBlueButton on a second monitor.> Does the app log when the students log into the conference and if they leave the page during a session? However, we do not recommend sharing video via Conferences as screen sharing does not support audio. You can leave a review for a resource in Commons.

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