BigBlueButton with a better whiteboard
manish katyan
Hi there!
The default whiteboard of BigBlueButton has limited features including no eraser.
Many BBB users wish to have a more features-rich whiteboard that would help them better in conducting online classes.
The BigBlueButton core team is working to improve the whiteboard feature.
In the meantime, we have an excellent alternative solution!
Check-out our open-source project - BBB-Jamboard - that plugs-in Google JamBoard with the BigBlueButton version 2.3 and 2.4.
Jamboard is a digital interactive whiteboard developed by Google and offers many additional features, including eraser, that would aid in your online classes.
So we created a simple shell script that you can execute on your BBB server. This script would plugin in JamBoard into your BigBlueButton server.
Check-out the screencast to learn more.
Hope this helps!
Nikola Z
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Nikola Z
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Hiroshi Suga
Note that it's not really erasing drawings, but instead it overwrites them with a rectangle bearing the slide texture. Thus the CPU load is a bit high.
Also https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/11021 enables a marker pen function, and if you choose the white color, it behaves really like an eraser. But again, it simply overlays a pen drawing with the slide texture.
In my opinion, the whiteboard functions best on v2.2, as long as you use it in a small scale. Although not recommended, I still use v2.2 for a lecture that uses only the whiteboard.
Other features that I personally feel convenient are https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/10737 and https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/11604 , which enables filling shapes and adjustment of drawing positions, respectively.
j...@k6jm.com
Great to hear about this work-around.
Jim Moen
Smart Flower Language School
PS The head of our small language school, Smart Flower, sent me his comments regarding BBB and the whiteboard:
I'm confident that BBB will eventually add the ability to edit and save whiteboards in BBB. Not being able to do this is a serious limitation, so I believe that they'll get around to it at some point. Of course, it is possible to take screenshots in lieu of saving/downloading boards; but there's currently no way to edit what is already on the board.
Zoom has a whiteboard, but the last time I used Zoom, which was over a year ago, I remember that I was not particularly impressed with it (Zoom in general, and its whiteboard specifically.). The whiteboard in Microsoft Teams works pretty well as a collaborative board; it can be edited, and boards are saved automatically. It is a separate app, however, meaning it can be used stand-alone, as well as during a Teams online meeting, but this makes it more complex.
I really like the whiteboard/presentation space in BBB, mainly for its simplicity. It's nice that in one space it's possible to do interactive whiteboarding, as well as to annotate presentations That it's not possible to run a presentation that has animations or transitions is both a blessing and a curse, I would say. Animations and transitions often detract from a presentation, so not having the option to use them is a good thing in many ways. Still, I have some older presentations that show words moving as an animation, which is easier for students to follow than if you just show two slides, before and after, where the words are in different positions.
Hopefully BBB whiteboard functionality will happen early in 2022. In the meantime, the BBB-Google Jamboard integration looks interesting. It does add some complexity, and I wonder if all of the users would need to have Google accounts to make full use of the boards.
Still, it is good to see activity in this important area.
Hiroshi Suga
Julien Gribonvald
Hi,
Sorry but using a Google tool isn't a possibility for somes peoples. Instead we hould use an Open Source Whiteboard ;)
Best
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Nikola Z
Not all students broadcast the screen, especially with a weak Internet. Therefore, there is an urgent need to improve the BBB board.
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Nikola Z
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Matthias Weiler
Are there thoughts about integrating an existing tool for the whiteboard
functionality?
The most promising solutions seem to be Spacedeck[0] (used in
NextCloud), WBO[1] (Etherpad plugin available) and Whiteboard[2].
All the best,
Matthias
[0] https://github.com/spacedeck/spacedeck-open
[1] https://github.com/lovasoa/whitebophir
[2] https://github.com/cracker0dks/whiteboard
>>>> Behalf Of* manish katyan
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, October 25, 2021 12:21 AM
>>>> *To:* bigblueb...@googlegroups.com
>>>> *Subject:* [bigbluebutton-dev] BigBlueButton with a better whiteboard
>>>> Hi there!
>>>>
>>>> The default whiteboard of BigBlueButton has limited features including
>>>> no eraser.
>>>>
>>>> Many BBB users wish to have a more features-rich whiteboard that would
>>>> help them better in conducting online classes.
>>>>
>>>> The BigBlueButton core team is working to improve the whiteboard
>>>> feature.
>>>>
>>>> In the meantime, we have an excellent alternative solution!
>>>>
>>>> <https://github.com/manishkatyan/bbb-jamboard/> - that plugs-in Google
>>>>
>>>> Jamboard is a digital interactive whiteboard developed by Google and
>>>> offers many additional features, including eraser, that would aid in your
>>>> online classes.
>>>>
>>>> So we created a simple shell script that you can execute on your BBB
>>>> server. This script would plugin in JamBoard into your BigBlueButton
>>>> server.
>>>>
>>>> <https://github.com/manishkatyan/bbb-jamboard/> to learn more.
>>>> Hope this helps!
>>>>
>>>> - Manish
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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manish katyan
- ability to store/share whiteboards independent of live sessions (similar to de-coupling presentations),
- offer new features - eraser, laser, sticky notes, and add images
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