Enable Dynamic Virtual
Business-focused video conferencing platforms create a limited-engagement barrier between educators and students. This leads to passive learning experiences where students disengage and educators teach the screen.
In contrast, Blindside Networks transforms virtual classrooms into dynamic learning environments that foster the goals of higher education: interpersonal engagement, critical thinking, and deep subject expertise that prepare students for the workplace and life-long learning.
BigBlueButton can lift content from your slides and create instant polls with a single click, enabling educators to engage every student, gain insight into understanding, and adjust the lecture on the fly. Classes are interactive, not passive.
Visual assessment turns every diagram into an opportunity for engagement. By enabling mouse pointers, you can ask students to “Point to the location of the hippocampus in the brain” and from their mouse pointers instantly get a sense of their understanding (they can’t see each other’s mouse pointers).
Blindside Networks provides extensive support, training, and resources to universities, equipping faculty and IT staff with the knowledge needed to effectively utilize BigBlueButton’s features for lectures, seminars, and collaborative research activities.
Encourage candid participation on sensitive topics. You also have a choice of whether to share poll results with students.
This optional feature allows students to collaborate on shared notes, contributing thoughts and insights that enrich future discussions. Students can export the shared notes in Word, text, or PDF formats for later study.
Collaborative Learning
Create breakout rooms designed for collaboration, critical thinking, and group presentations.
At the end of breakout sessions, student work is automatically compiled and returned to the main room, saving you time and keeping the learning experience seamless.
Customize rooms with different topics to explore multiple perspectives.
Monitor multiple breakout rooms simultaneously to foster discussions and provide opportunities for questions.
BigBlueButton can automatically consolidate group work (presentation and shared notes) and return them back to the main room for group presentations.
Purpose-Built
Tools that scale from a seminar to a lecture hall, with the analytics to see how engagement is really going.
Through allowing multiple moderators, BigBlueButton supports teaching assistants who can, for example, monitor discussions and support student needs while you focus on teaching.
Foster more engagement and discussions, especially in large classes, with giving students the ability to upvote each others questions.
The built-in Learning Analytics Dashboard provides an overview of student engagement in your class, highlighting both high and low engagement levels and offering data-driven insights to help boost overall participation.
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