BigBlueButton: Sharing a Presentation
Margarita Berezyanskaya
Last Update 12 giorni fa
Note: To access comprehensive information on session facilitation and explore additional features, please visit the BigBlueButton Session Facilitation article.
A common way to focus learners in an online session is to have a set of slides in the presentation area of BBB. It is a good practice to convert files to PDF format before uploading a slideshow.
1. Click on the Plus icon at the bottom of the screen.
2. From the presentation menu, choose the Upload/Manage presentations option.
Note: The default.pdf at the top of the menu is the BigBlueButton Welcome screen. If you have used other presentations or shown your Shared notes as a presentation previously in the session, they will also appear on the upper part of the menu. The current presentation is marked with a check mark in a circle to the right of the file name.
3. The Presentation screen appears.
4. Drag your presentation file into the Drag files here to upload box.
5. The presentation file is highlighted and selected. Click on the Confirm button. The upload may take a minute.
6. Once uploaded, the slideshow appears in the main part of the BBB screen.
At the bottom or side of the presentation screen, there are a number of Annotation options and a button that allows the instructor to Turn on or off whiteboard annotations for other users. The multi-user whiteboard allows users to interact with the presentation area. These features can be used by the instructor while leading a lesson or by learners responding to instructor directions. The instructor can see which student is performing which action by the name tag on that student’s cursor.
The annotations bar provides options for:
- Select
- Hand (new in BBB 3.0)
- Highlight (new in BBB 3.0)
- Draw
- Eraser
- Arrow
- Text
- Note
- Rectangle
- Ellipse (new in BBB 3.0)
- More shapes (new in BBB 3.0)
- Actions (new in BBB 3.0)
Two more icons on the side or bottom of the annotations toolbar provide access to More shapes and Actions.
Another toolbar on the presentation provides Styles options for the annotations. These include colour, shape fill, line design, and font size.
The Undo/Redo buttons and the Options menu are in the top-right corner of the presentation area. Teachers can Clear Annotations from the Options menu.
Teachers can also change to Fullscreen Presentation, take a Snapshot of current slide, and Hide Toolbars.
Note: By default, students can see all cursor movements and name tags. Teachers can change this setting so that each student only sees their own cursor. This is configured in the Manage Users, Lock viewers area.
Note: At any time during a presentation, a teacher or student can take a snapshot of the current slide by selecting the Options menu in the top-right corner of the presentation area (whether it is annotated or not.)
Student view:
Note: To access comprehensive information on session facilitation and explore additional features, please visit the BigBlueButton Session Facilitation article.