<< Cosmo.WebHome %TOC% ---- ---+ Practical hints/FAQ for using Big Blue Button * What is Big Blue Button? WikipediaEn:BigBlueButton ---+ what are the communication methods? * text messaging, audio, video, pdf-type slide presentations ---+ display a presentation You can either choose to: * display a *pdf* (or any other window) shown on your screen (even your whole screen, but that might include private things!), or * upload your pdf (or .pptx) file beforehand (the server takes 2-5 minutes to convert it) * In this case, you can use a virtual *whiteboard* to draw with virtual markers on your presentation, and you can allow participants to do so too, allowing live discussion to continue with diagrams (lines, circles, freehand curves, text). * each time you "share your screen" you have to wait a bit, so if you do this a lot, remember to keep talking to your audience, or encourage them to talk, while you're doing this ---++ video * set your video quality to low, to avoid overloading the bandwidth ---+++ webcam button is locked If your webcam button is locked and you can't unlock it, and if the admin/moderator hasn't locked it, try this to reset the lock: * top-right triple-dot * Settings * Data savings * Enable webcams: _switch this to *off* status_ * Save (and wait a bit) * Enable webcams: _switch this back to *on* status_ * Save (and wait a bit) * Close ---++ whiteboard text entry Selection sequence: * Tools * T * click and drag to make a little box where you want to type * type with the keyboard - your typing should appear in the box; you can modify the parameters of the text as long as the box remains present * click somewhere else to terminate the box; the characters should visually remain in place. -- Main.BoudRoukema - 26 Apr 2020 + ...
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