June 11, 2020 community meetup

Date, time, and location

WHEN: Thursday, June 11, 1pm (Eastern Time US) / 17:00 UTC. (time converter)

Recording: https://youtu.be/Srg0NR00_gg

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1V-e-rVTjsG-1W3fOwCD4usVeErxwop4bv0E5IJisnC8/edit

Would you like to present something? Let us know!

Agenda

  • Juniper release

  • Stefania Trabucci (Abstract Technology): BigBlueButton and Open edX

    • BigBlueButton is the open-source video conferencing system most used in education, and through its LTI integration can be embedded inside an Open edX course.

      We want to share our experience with BBB + Open edX, explaining how BBB as a separate service works and show which advantages teachers and students have when the tool is integrated into the LMS.

      BigBlueButton is a web conferencing system designed for online learning. In addition to all the feature you'd expect from a video conferencing tool, it also has features explicitly designed for online learning: the presenter can show slides that the students can easily download. It provides tools to write on the slides and turn them into a virtual whiteboard. A recording functionality can archive the whole lesson, slides included, for later view.

      Through the LTI integration students of an Open edX course can easily follow a lesson live or view its recording afterwards.