The BigBlueButton core development team is pleased to announce the release of BigBlueButton 0.8-beta-4. We have added fit-to-width to the presentation window, giving presenter the ability to display any document as fit-to-width or fit-to-page using two new buttons (see image below). The 0.8-beta-4 release now has a virtual machine (VM) that anyone download and run on [...]
The BigBlueButton development team is pleased to announce the BETA RELEASE of BigBlueButton 0.8.This release provides: Recording of sessions Playback of recordings in HTML 5 Improved Audio (lower latency) Integration with Matterhorn (open source lecture capture management) For the full details, see release notes. For installation on Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit or 64-bit server, see installation instructions. We’ve [...]
Two words: popcorn.js rocks. We’ve been working on adding record and playback to BigBlueButton 0.8 for months (we’re almost ready for a beta). We had originally written our own HTML5 playback client for playback of slides + audio. This way, playback could occur within an HTML5 browser. By using HTML5, the playback would be very [...]
Two of the BigBlueButton developers, Richard Alam and Fred Dixon, gave a talk at SC2011 – Software Developers’ Haven, an open source conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, on August 27, 2011. They presented the architecture and implementation of record and playback in the upcoming BigBlueButton 0.8. At the time of the presentation BigBlueButton 0.8-beta had [...]
The website Classroom 2.0 recently posted an article 9 Web Conferencing Platforms for Education and Collaboration 2.0: What Should Your Organization Use? In the review, Nicholas Carl Martin wrote about BigBlueButton It offers the basic features described at the beginning of the post and also employs video conferencing between the presenter and viewers. It lacks [...]