BigBlueButton RoadMapProject update

Moodle MootUS 2015

Jesus FedericoBigBlueButton Developer

jesus@blindsidenetworks.com@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

jesus@blindsidenetworks.com@jesusfederico

Fred DixonProject Manager, BigBlueButton

ffdixon@bigbluebutton.org@ffdixon