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 […]
Meeting Statistics Now Available for Recorded Sessions
To give teachers more insight into student engagement during an online session we created a new recording format called Statistics Report. When a student participates in an online class BigBlueButton, will capture their user events (such as joining, leaving, chatting, raising hand, etc.) in order to create a playback file for the recorded session. For […]
NISOD Virtual Conference held with BigBlueButton
Each year the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) holds an annual user conference. This year, six months after their user conference, they wanted to hold a NISOD virtual conference to enable more opportunities for collaboration and professional development amongst their members. NISOD used BigBlueButton and Blindside Networks to host their first virtual […]
MoodleCloud expands the number of users for BigBlueButton
MoodleCloud announced they now offer subscription-based pricing for BigBlueButton that gives instructors the ability to hold larger synchronous online classes. In July 2015 Moodle HQ launched MoodleCloud, and, now fourteen months later, MoodleCloud hosts thousands of education sites for instructors around the world. The launch included a free usage of BigBlueButton for up-to six (6) […]
eLearning Experts partners with Blindside Networks
Blindside Networks, the company that started the BigBlueButton project, and eLearning Experts, a certified Moodle Partner, announce a partnership to provide integrated hosting for BigBlueButton to all eLearning Expert customers. “BigBlueButton has impressed us over the years with its ease of use, stability, deep integration to Moodle,” says Kathie Robeson, CEO eLearning Experts. “We’ve seen […]
Blindside Networks partners with eThink Education to provide integrated hosting for BigBlueButton to eThink customers
Blindside Networks, the company that started the BigBlueButton project, and eThink Education, a certified Moodle Partner, announce a partnership to provide integrated hosting for BigBlueButton to all eThink Education customers. “We’ve been impressed with the commercial-grade web conferencing that BigBlueButton provides to the Moodle community,” says Brian Carlson, CEO of eThink Education. “Our partnership with […]
Hosting the BigBlueButton Developer Summit VIII
Blindside Networks was pleased to host the eighth BigBlueButton developer summit held last week in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Using facilities provided by The Code Factory we collaborated and worked together on accelerating the improvements to the BigBlueButton project. The collaborated included evolving the core reviewing the planned improvements to the UI coordinating the development of […]
BigBlueButtonBN Moodle Plugin ranked #9
Blindside Networks has developed and supported the BigBlueButtonBN plugin for Moodle for over five years now. The BigBlueButtonBN plugin is about giving instructors a simple (yet powerful) way to integrate BigBlueButton into their courses. We recently saw it was ranked #9 in overall downloads for all Moodle plugins! We’ve recently added features such supporting custom […]