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BigBlueButton RoadMapProject update
Moodle MootUS 2015
Jesus FedericoBigBlueButton Developer
[email protected]@jesusfederico
60’s
90’s
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ONLINE LEARNING [INFOGRAPHIC]http://goo.gl/z8XjeG
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 alone1
• Huge benefits to students in around the world to access on-line learning
(1) http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=84
Most used technologies
• Learning Management Systems– There are at least 571 available options2
• Web Conferencing Systems (or virtual classrooms)– There are at least 145 available options3
(2,3) http://goo.gl/XzOufY
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
ChatDesktop Sharing
Screen shot
Screen shot
PlaybackChat
Audio, Video, Desktop Sharing
Presentation
Slide Thumbnails
http://goo.gl/A0IOXr
Growth
Social Growth
– Facebook: 4256 likes
– Twitter: 2610 followers
– GitHub:
All organic, no special preservative
June 2015
2 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
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bigbluebutton/
Summit V: Porto Alegre, BrazilNov 2014
Summit IV: Ottawa, OntarioMay, 2015
Committers
Richard AlamLead Architect
Calvin WaltonRecord and Playback
Felipe Cecagno Client/Server
Fred DixonProject Management
Tiago Jacobsred5
http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/support/faq.html#contributing-to-bigbluebutton
Chad PilkeyClient
Adoption
http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=881
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 ValleSenior Director of IT
Higher EducationNational 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 0.9.0(17 months total)
• BigBlueButton 0.9.0-dev– Design and Development
• BigBlueButton 0.9.0-beta– Updated packaging and documentation– Tested developer environment – No major bugs
• BigBlueButton 0.9.0-RC– Open bugs: 0– Final testing with community
• BigBlueButton 0.9.0
April 19, 2015
October 16, 2014
November 12, 2013
6 months
11 months
April 30, 2015
2 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 LANGUAGESCOLOR
FONT SIZEUPPERCASE
• CONTROLS APPEAR ON PLAYBACK
Video Dock
Updated Video Dock
Mobile
Platform Options
Desktop/Laptop/Chromebook Current client
iOS Working on native iOS client
Android Working 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 video3. Presentation Controls4. Moderator Controls
• Working in parallel on iOS client (but we want toget 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 FedericoSoftware Developer, BigBlueButton
[email protected]@jesusfederico
Fred DixonProject Manager, BigBlueButton
[email protected]@ffdixon
