Agora Learning, a learning Management System from Tree Learning, has integrated BigBlueButton into their learning management system.
You can read more about it in their blog post BigBlueButton Supporting Elearning.
Just saw this tweet from Boston College. Looks like they are using BigBlueButton from within Canvas.
We’re feeling the love.
We just returned back from another great developer summit in Porto Alegre, Brazil. This was our seventh developer summit. The BigBlueButton project holds developer summits every six months to bring the core developers and committers together to review and coordinate development on the project, do code sprints, and enjoy some good meals and company together.
The project has come a long way from it’s first developer summit. Now that we have released BigBlueButton 1.0-beta, looking back to previous summits, we can see how the earlier planning helped us to reach this milestone. At this summit we had the largest number of developers (19 in total) working together on the project.
We thank the following organizations for helping make this summit possible:
At the end of the summit, the teams made two presentations to the community (using BigBlueButton of course) on the main activities: BigBlueButton core and HTML5 client. For those that missed the live presentations, you can view the recordings below.
BigBlueButton Project Update
BigBlueButton HTML Client Update
Thanks to everyone who traveled to Porto Alegre, Brazil. It was a great time! If your looking for a place to hold a developer summit, we definitely recommend Nós Coworking
We (the core developers) are very pleased to announce the release of BigBlueButton 1.0-beta.
Our intent for this release is to increase opportunities for interaction between instructors and students. BigBlueButton 1.0-beta offers the following new features:
For details (with screen shots) see 1.0-beta overview.
Contributing organizations for this release:
BigBlueButton committers for this release:
This release represents over five months of focused development effort and testing, and we’ve been running builds of 1.0-dev on our demo server for over two months now, fixing all the issues we could find before beta release.
The goal of the BigBlueButton project is to enable remote students to have a high-quality on-line learning experience. With each release we see an increase in adoption by the educational community.
“Our instructors love BigBlueButton. With our previous web-conferencing solution our users encountered many technical and usability problems that caused a lot of support effort on our part. With BigBlueButton, the support issues are almost non-existent. We are constantly impressed with the level of quality in this open source project.”
Marc Matthes, Dir. of Computer Networking Programs and Program Developer, Distance Learning Department, Iowa Central Community College
For instructions to install BigBlueButton 1.0-beta (or upgrade an existing 0.9.x server), see 1.0-beta install.
For details on the beta release process and the steps ahead before nearing release candidate, see our development process.
We’ve published documentation on how to modify a BigBlueButton 0.9 server to support HTTPS.
For production servers, users are increasingly expecting content to be served from HTTPS. There is also another reason to support HTTPS: the upcoming Chrome 46, which is due for release soon, will not allow users to access their microphone via WebRTC unless the site is served from HTTPS (see post).
Therefore, if you are running your own BigBlueButton 0.9 server with WebRTC audio enabled, we recommend you configure the server for HTTPS. If not, after Chrome 46 releases, users will get the message Detected the following WebRTC issue: Could not get your microphone for a WebRTC call. Do you want to try Flash instead?.
Using Flash-based audio works as before, but if you upgrade the server to support HTTPS, WebRTC audio will work fine with Chrome 46 (and beyond).