BigBlueButton is an open-source conferencing system that’s specially designed for online learning. It supports real-time sharing of video, slides, audio, screen, and chat. Instructors can get their remote students engaged with emojis, polling, breakout rooms, screen sharing, and even multi-user whiteboards. Presenters can easily record and playback their lectures and content to make them available later. Public and private messages can be sent easily using the chat option while the webcams feature allows users to hold virtual meetings and communicate using high-quality audio. With the live whiteboard tool, annotations are displayed automatically to students in real-time. Teachers and presenters have the option to highlight, draw, write, and zoom on presentations, making important points clearer to students; it gives students a feeling that they are together in a classroom. With regards to webcams, there is no limit when it comes to the number of webcams that can be shared in a session.
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