Higher Education

Engage your students, not the screen.

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Enable Dynamic Virtual

Learning Environments

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: interpersonally engagement, critical thinking, and deep subject expertise that prepare students for the workplace and life-long learning.

Enrich Every Lecture with Active Learning

Formative assessment with your slides.

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 with whiteboard

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).

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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.

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Anonymous polling

Encourage candid participation on sensitive topics. You also have choice whether to share any poll results with students.

Shared Notes for Collaborative Work

As a feature you can enable/disable, can have students collaborate on shared notes where they can contribute thoughts and insights, creating richer subsequent discussions. Students can export Shared Notes in Word, text, and PDF formats for later study.

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Collaborative Learning

In Breakout Rooms

Create breakout rooms designed for collaboration, critical thinking, and group presentations.

Breakout rooms that give back

When breakout sessions end, automatically consolidate and return student work to the main room, saving you valuable time and maintaining the flow of learning.

Different Topics

Customize rooms with different topics to explore multiple perspectives.

Monitor for effectiveness

Monitor multiple breakout simultaneously to foster discussions and provide opportunities for questions.

Automatically return results

BigBlueButton can automatically consolidate group work (presentation and shared notes) and return them back main room for group presentations.

Purpose-Built

for Academic Excellence.

Multiple moderators

Through allowing multiple moderators, BigBlueButton supports teaching assistants who can, for example, monitor discussions and support student needs while you focus on teaching.

Upvoted questions

Foster more engagement and discussions, especially in large classes, with giving students the ability to upvote each others questions.

Learning Analytics Dashboard

The built-in Learning Analytics Dashboard gives you a birds-eye view your student engagement during your class, showing the high/low levels of engagement amongst students and giving data-driven insight to further increase engagement levels.

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Schedule a personalized demo with Blindside Networks today to see how BigBlueButton Enhanced can facilitate meaningful engagement and help students reach their professional goals.

Blindside Networks are an absolute dream to work with. They have been true partners with us every step of the way and are now the standard against which we measure any vendor we consider. Fantastic to work with in every respect.

Charles Campbell

Director of Interactive Media & Academics Technology Thomas Edison State University