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BIG BLUE BUTTON
Web conferencing software

What Is the Big Blue Button?
• Free, open source, web conferencing software • Clean and simple was the design goal (“Just push the Big Blue Button!”) •Similar to Connect or Elluminate • Uses VoIP for audio
• No telephone needed • Practical limit of 25 attendees for audio

• BBB sessions will supplement (but not replace) Connect

sessions • BigBlue Button main site:
• http://www.bigbluebutton.org/

• Big Blue Button tutorials • http://www.bigbluebutton.org/content/videos • CSU-E’s Big Blue Button: • http://bigblue.library.colostate.edu/(this is the one you’ll use)

users

presentation

chat

listeners

video

Differences Between BBB and Connect
• Attendees have much more control over workspace • They can resize,move, and hide modules • They can talk
• Might want to establish some ground rules on when attendees should

speak
• They can turn on their webcam (other attendees have the choice to

view otherwebcams)

• No polling pod • There is a Hand Raise option for yes or no questions • No recording option • Will be one in next version • Groovy hold music • Stops when 2 listeners or more sign in toVoIP

Getting Started
• http://bigblue.library.colostate.edu/
• Click “View API Examples” at the lower right

Getting Started
• Click “Create Your Own Meeting”

• Enter name, Click “Create(name’s) meeting

Getting Started
• Copy and paste link to an email and send it out to all

invitees
• As long as the name you use in the previous step is exactly the

same, the URL will notchange, so it can be sent out in advance

• Click “Start Meeting”

Audio and Video
• Click headphone to enable audio • Presenter and attendee option • You’ll get an Adobe window confirming youallow access • 2.4 second delay • Ask people to raise hand to talk; otherwise you’ll step on each other’s audio • To choose between microphones, Right-click>Settings>Microphone icon • Click webcam to...