What's New in BigBlueButton 3.0

Users can now find the session information and welcome message at the top of the presentation area. 

This improves usability by:

• Keeping the welcome message available throughout the session rather than in the chat, where it could be lost when messages scroll.
  
  

• Providing a one-click option to copy the join session link for participants who have trouble joining.
  
  

BigBlueButton smart slides can now recognize a question at the top of a slide with multiple-choice answers as a poll and offers a poll generator button to open a poll instantly.

This new option displays poll results as graphs both in the poll results view and in the chat. Users can now see a graphical representation of the poll results in both places, and the results remain in the chat throughout the session.

Participants can now edit chat messages after sending. 

Instructors can now delete individual chat messages if necessary during the session without deleting the entire chat. 

Users can now reply to chat messages. The reply will display the original message for context.

Users can now react to a chat message by choosing emojis from the Reactions Bar. These emojis appear near the original message and remain there for the duration of the session. 

Users can also click on an existing reaction to add it for themselves and can hover the cursor over an emoji to see who added it.

• New whiteboard shapes including cloud, star, checkboxes, frame, and more. Select the More shapes chevron on the annotation toolbar to access the new shapes.

• A new Highlight tool with Styles including colour, opacity, and size. Select the Highlight option on the annotation toolbar, then select Styles to change the appearance of the highlighter.

Users can now select the new Raise hand button to raise their hand. The button will change from white to blue when the hand is raised.

The user's initials change to a raised-hand icon.

The teacher can see raised hands, and if multiple hands are raised, the order in which they were raised is displayed.

Teachers can Clear all reactions by opening the Manage users menu and clicking on Clear all reactions.

The new Leave session button is located in the top-right corner of the presentation area. Students can click Leave session to exit the room.

Teachers can choose Leave session to exit while leaving the room open for participants, or select End session for all to close the session and log all users out.