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Web conferencing with BigBlueButton
BigBlueButton allows web conferencing in the browser with up to 500 participants. The application offers many important features for online teaching events:
- Share audio/video
- Share screen
- Share presentation
- Chat with all or individual participants
- Conduct polls or surveys
- Whiteboard for collaborative content development
- Shared notes for the elaboration of content or for protocols
- Break-out rooms: use additional rooms for small group work in parallel for a defined period of time
- Recording option
- Integration in ILIAS: create a web conference room directly in courses and groups
Important notes:
- Google Chrome, Chromium or Mozilla Firefox should be used as the browser on all platforms (including Apple devices).
Target group
Teachers, staff and students
Requirements
For organizers: Central staff or student user account (university account), PC/laptop with current browser (recommended: Chrome, Chromium or Firefox), webcam and headset (or speaker and microphone).
For participants: No account required, PC/laptop with current browser (recommended: Chrome, Chromium or Firefox) as well as headset (or speaker and microphone), webcam if applicable.
Instructions
Status
In operation
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For issues with the BigBlueButton web conferencing service, please refer to the BigBlueButton web conferencing service FAQ or contact the IT Service Desk (Lahnberge), also reachable by email at helpdesk@hrz.uni-marburg.de. Please include your account and the topic when making inquiries. For general questions and feedback about BigBlueButton, please contact webconf@hrz.uni-marburg.de..
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BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. While the Greenlight administration interface runs on servers in the HRZ at Philipps-Universität Marburg, more powerful servers were rented from a commercial data centre operator in Bavaria for the BigBlueButton workers.