BigBlueButton RoadMap Project update Moodle MootUS 2015 Jesus Federico BigBlueButton

60’s 90’s A BRIEF HISTORY OF ONLINE LEARNING [INFOGRAPHIC]

Trend to On-line Educational Institutions world-wide are moving towards on-line learning – There are 4,495 degree granting institutions in and 24,641 secondary schools in the USA alone 1 Huge benefits to students in around the world to access on-line learning (1)

Most used technologies Learning Management Systems – There are at least 571 available options 2 Web Conferencing Systems (or virtual classrooms) – There are at least 145 available options 3 (2,3)

What about open source solutions?

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. BigBlueButton is open source.

Started in 2007 at Carleton University

Use Cases 1.One-to-one 2.Small group collaboration 3.One-to-Many (< 50) Not hard coded!

Slides Audio Video Chat Desktop Sharing

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Playback Chat Audio, Video, Desktop Sharing Presentation Slide Thumbnails

Growth

Social Growth – Facebook: 4256 likes – Twitter: 2610 followers – GitHub: All organic, no special preservative June days ago

Developer Mailing List 1950 Members

Localization (Transifex) 73 languages > 90 % localization – Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, English, Estonian, French (Canadian), French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Spain), Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Summit V: Porto Alegre, Brazil Nov 2014

Summit IV: Ottawa, Ontario May, 2015

Committers Richard Alam Lead Architect Calvin Walton Record and Playback Felipe Cecagno Client/Server Fred Dixon Project Management Tiago Jacobs red5 Chad Pilkey Client

Adoption

National University College “We at National University College-Online Division are very happy with our change to BigBlueButton. With our previous solution we had over 50 support tickets/month. After switching to BigBlueButton, that number dropped to 6 or 7 tickets/month.” – Mariangie Del Valle Senior Director of IT Higher Education National University College-Online

“The Defense Information Systems Agency expects to save at least $12 million a year with the rollout of its new Defense Collaboration Services (DCS), an online tool for secure collaboration between Defense Department users.” DCS is built using BigBlueButton. Google: DISA BIGBLUEBUTTON

Moodle Integration

RecordingsBN

Road Map

Architecture

Development (17 months total) BigBlueButton dev – Design and Development BigBlueButton beta – Updated packaging and documentation – Tested developer environment – No major bugs BigBlueButton RC – Open bugs: 0 – Final testing with community BigBlueButton April 19, 2015 October 16, 2014 November 12, months 11 months April 30, weeks

Summer/Fall Main – Polling Module – Closed Captioning – Improved Video Doc Updates – More secure desktop sharing TLS over stunnel – API updates – Webhooks

Polling Module

Polling Design HERE IS A TYPICAL SLIDE FOR DISCUSSION THIS READS LIKE A POLL

INSTRUCTOR HAS A LIST OF OPTIONS

POLL CHOICES APPEAR UNDER SLIDES

INSTRUCTOR SEES RESULTS IN REAL-TIME INSTRUCTOR CAN CLICK ‘PUBLISH’ TO SHARE RESULTS WITH STUDENTS

PUBLISHED RESUTLS APPEAR AS ANNOTATIONS ANNOTATIONS BECOME PART OF RECORDINGS

INSTRUCTOR HAS INDICATED CHOICES A. B. C. ETC.

WE CAN DETECT THIS FORMAT. AUTOMATICALLY CREATE A ‘QUICK POLL’ BUTTON

INSTRUCTOR CAN QUICKLY ITTERATE THROUGH POLLS DESIGN SLIDES WITH POLLS IN LECUTURE OR END OF SLIDES

BIGBLUEBUTTON WILL HAVE A CLOSED CAPTIONING LAYOUT

Closed Captioning

MODERATOR CAN ENTER CLOSED CAPTIONING (ONE LINE AT A TIME) CAPTIONING CAN BE IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES COLOR FONT SIZE UPPERCASE

CONTROLS APPEAR ON PLAYBACK

Video Dock

Updated Video Dock

Mobile

PlatformOptions Desktop/Laptop/ChromebookCurrent client iOSWorking on native iOS client AndroidWorking on HTML5 client HTML5 HIGHER PRIORITY AS IT MOVES US MORE TOWARDS WEBRTC (VIDEO AND DESKTOP SHARING) FLASH CLIENT WILL BE WITH US FOR A FEW MORE YEARS (WE ARE PRAGMATICS)

PORTRAIT VIEW SHOWS PRESENTATION AND CHAT

1.View presentation, desktop sharing, and two-way chat and audio. 2.Two-way video 3.Presentation Controls 4.Moderator Controls Working in parallel on iOS client (but we want to get HTML5 client out first).

Future Plans Breakout Rooms Synchronized Video Playback Shared Notes Faster Desktop Sharing (WebRTC) Improved Video (WebRTC) Shared Whiteboard Emote Icons Full Screen Mode

docs.bigbluebutton.org

Questions Jesus Federico Software Developer, Fred Dixon Project Manager,