In this presentation Fred Dixon and Jesus Federico give an update on the status of the BigBlueButton project

1. BigBlueButton
Open Source Web Conferencing for On-line Learning
NC3ADL
Jesus Federico
BigBlueButton Developer
jesus@blindsidenetworks.com
Fred Dixon
BigBlueButton Product Manager
ffdixon@bigbluebutton.org

3. 60’s
90’s
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ONLINE LEARNING [INFOGRAPHIC]
http://goo.gl/z8XjeG

4. On-line Learning
• There are 4,495 degree granting institutions in
and 24,641 secondary schools in the USA
alone1
– 98% of the degree granting institutions offer an
on-line component2
• Huge social benefits to students around
the world
(1) http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=84
(2) http://www.straighterline.com/blog/brief-history-online-learning-infographic/

5. Education Software
• Learning Management Systems
– There are at least 571 available options3
• Web Conferencing Systems (or virtual
classrooms)
– There are at least 145 available options4
(3, 4) http://www.trimeritus.com/vendors.pdf

6. What about open source solutions for
web conferencing?

9. 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.

10. Started in 2007 at Carleton University

11. Use Cases
1. One-to-one
2. Small group collaboration
3. One-to-Many (< 50)

12. Slides & Whiteboard
Audio
Video
Chat
Desktop Sharing

13. Layouts
Shortcut keys
Polling
Recordings
Emote icons

14. Playback
Chat
Audio, Video,
Desktop Sharing
Presentation
Slide Thumbnails
http://goo.gl/A0IOXr

15. Architecture

16. Growth

17. Social
– Facebook:
– Twitter:
– GitHub:
All organic, no special
preservative

18. Developer Mailing List
• 2060 Members

19. 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
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bigbluebutton/

20. Summit V: Porto Alegre, Brazil
Nov 2014

21. Summit IV: Ottawa, Ontario
May, 2015

22. Committers
Richard Alam
Lead Architect
Calvin Walton
Record and Playback
Felipe Cecagno
Client/Server
Fred Dixon
Project Management
Tiago Jacobs
red5
http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/support/faq.html#contributing-to-bigbluebutton
Chad Pilkey
Client

23. Adoption

24. http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=881

28. 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

29. BigBlueButton is integrated
with Moodle Cloud
Free to anyone in the
world.
Up to 6 users/session with
no recordings.

30. US Department of Defense
“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

31. Integrations

44. Sakai

45. https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BBB/Home
The Sakai integration is now maintained by BigBlueButton developers
(based on work by Nuno Fernandes and Adrian Fish)

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

47. Meeting Tool
Controls

50. Join Meeting
View Recordings

51. Join

52. Welcome message
Entered in Sakai
Automatically added by
our hosting environment

53. End
This ends the session and
starts processing for
recording.

54. Video of Recording
video

55. Instructor can manage recordings
Hide/Unhide recordings
Delete Recordings

56. Apereo OAE

60. Build/integrate us!

61. • API
– create
– join
– isMeetingRunning
– end
– getMeetingInfo
– getMeetings
– getRecordings
– publishRecordings
– deleteRecordings
– getDefaultConfigXML
– setConfigXML
http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/dev/api.html

62. Road Map

63. 1.0-beta
• BigBlueButton 1.0-dev
– Design and Development
• BigBlueButton 1.0-beta
– Updated packaging and documentation
– Tested developer environment
– No major bugs
• BigBlueButton 1.0-RC
– Open bugs: 0
– Final testing with community
• BigBlueButton 1.0
October 5, 2015
April 30, 2015

64. BigBlueButton 1.0-beta
• Main
– Polling Module
– Improved Video Doc
– Emote Icons
– Puffin Browser support

65. Polling Module

66. Polling Design
• Many slides
provide good
content for a poll

77. • Which is the most northern state in the USA?
A. Hawaii
B. Alaska
C. Maine
D. Washington

78. Emote Icons

79. Emoji Icons

80. Puffin Browser support

81. Puffin Browser 4.6

83. Video Dock

84. Updated Video Dock

87. Future Plans
• HTML5 client
• Closed Captioning
• Breakout Rooms
• Faster Desktop Sharing (WebRTC)
• Full Screen Mode
• Shared Whiteboard
• Synchronized Video Playback
• Shared Notes

88. Mobile

89. Platform Options
Desktop/Laptop/Chromebook Web Client (1.0-beta)
Android Working on HTML5 client (in progress)
iOS Working on native iOS 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)

90. HTML5 Client
http://demo.bigbluebutton.org

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

94. docs.bigbluebutton.org

95. Questions
Fred Dixon
BigBlueButton Product Manager
ffdixon@bigbluebutton.org
Jesus Federico
BigBlueButton Developer
jesus@blindsidenetworks.com