Blindside Networks’ Integration For BigBlueButton Moves Into Moodle 4.0 Core
BigBlueButton Becomes Fully Integrated Into Moodle 4.0 Moode HQ, the developers of the World’s most popular LMS, have released Moodle 4.0, an upgrade that significantly enhances and streamlines the user experience for teachers and students. Moodle 4.0 extends Moodle’s support for virtual classrooms by incorporating the integration for BigBlueButton into the core. According to Moodle […]
How Open-Source Virtual Classrooms Provide Data Sovereignty
Securing Our Children’s Data How Open-Source Virtual Classrooms Provide Data Sovereignty The issue of data security and sovereignty is a good way to illustrate the power of open source. We are all becoming more conscious of our online data and how it is being used. We are doubly concerned about our children’s online educational data. […]
How educators saved the school year
The 2020 school year was unprecedented. The global pandemic caused almost every educational institution in the world to deal with the elimination of in-person classroom teaching and learning, almost overnight. This seismic shift meant that educators had to reimagine their classrooms online while providing high quality teaching experiences without missing stride. This shift was a […]
High praise for BigBlueButtonBN Plugin for Moodle
LMSPulse recently selected the top 10 plugins for Moodle in 2020. When selecting BigBlueButtonBN, they stated Perhaps the biggest Open Technology of 2020, the Blindside Networks team’s creation might have saved the school year at countless schools and for thousands —millions?— of students at no cost to their privacy. High praise indeed! We’ve worked on […]
Supporting our customers during Covid-19
Before Covid-19 most schools had a (relatively small) portion of their classes online. If you are an instructional technologist in higher ed, perhaps you had a series of online classes for professional development, or if you are a superintendent for a K-12, perhaps you had a virtual high school to ensure at-risk kids could still […]
New features in hosting for BigBlueButton
We’ve been busy improving our features in the hosting of BigBlueButton in the past few months. This post gives you an update of what’s new in the Blindside Networks hosting for BigBlueButton. All of these features are now available in your sessions. 1. Who is Talking Whenever a user’s microphone generates audio, BigBlueButton now displays […]
HTML5 client is coming!
As many of you know, browsers will stop supporting Adobe Flash at the end of 2020. In response, Blindside Networks has been transitioning from Flash to HTML5 for BigBlueButton (referred hereafter as simply “HTML5 client”). We completed the first step of this transition in September 2018 with the release of the HTML5 client for mobile […]
Summer 2018 Hosting Updates
Summer is always the time which we release updates to our hosting environment for BigBlueButton. We want to cover three major updates coming soon: Personal Rooms HTML5 Mobile Client for Viewers Screen Sharing without Java Personal Rooms Customers have asked us for the ability to use BigBlueButton outside their learning management system (LMS). To enable […]
Support for GDPR
We recently added a document to our website describing our support for the upcoming General Data Protection Rights (GDPR) act, due to take effect May 25, 2018. See https://blindsidenetworks.com/gdpr/ Blindside Networks provides hosting to many organizations world-wide for BigBlueButton. This document describes, in plain language, the personal information we collect from a user, why we […]
BigBlueButtonBN 2.2.2
Blindside Networks is pleased to announce the release of BigBlueButtonBN version 2.2.2, the BigBlueButton plugin for Moodle. This latest version fixes a number of minor bugs reported by our community. The BigBlueButtonBN plugin is heavily used by the Moodle Community. Moodle.org shows over 5,400 Moodle sites running the plugin shows it ranked #6 in overall downloads (from a […]