Editing UVLe Big Blue Button (section)

==Big Blue Button==
BigBlueButton (BBB) is an open source web-conferencing system for distance education.  The goal of the project is to enable universities, colleges, and K12 to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students.

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BigBlueButton supports real-time sharing of slides (including whiteboard), audio, video, chat, and desktops.  It can also record lectures for later playback, specifically the slides + audio + chat (see release notes).


The BigBlueButton project was started in 2007 by Blindside Networks.  Team UVLe added this activity module so you can fully leverage BigBlueButton's capabilities from within UVLe courses.

This module enables you to:

*Create multiple activity links to on-line sessions within a course
*Restrict students from joining a session until a teacher (moderator) joins the session
*Launch BigBlueButton in a separate window
*Create a custom welcome message that appears at the top of the chat window when joining the session
*Specify join open/close dates for the session that appears in UVLe's calendar
*Record a session

A less capable system of running a videoconference is via '''[[Google Hangouts on UVLe]]'''.

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