Higher Education
Engage your students, not the screen.
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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: interpersonal engagement, critical thinking, and deep subject expertise that prepare students for the workplace and life-long 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.
Anonymous Polling
Encourage candid participation on sensitive topics. You also have a choice of whether to share poll results with students.
Shared Notes for Collaborative Work
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.
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In Breakout Rooms
Create breakout rooms designed for collaboration, critical thinking, and group presentations.
Breakout rooms that give back
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.
Different Topics
Customize rooms with different topics to explore multiple perspectives.
Monitor for effectiveness
Monitor multiple breakout rooms simultaneously to foster discussions and provide opportunities for questions.
Seamless group work consolidation
BigBlueButton can automatically consolidate group work (presentation and shared notes) and return them back to the main room for group presentations.
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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 (LAD)
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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