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collab.math.uzh.ch

URL

https://collab.math.uzh.ch

Product

BigBlueButton

Limits

No administrative user limits. Technical limits: perhaps 200 concurrent sessions.
Big classes (>50): switch off participant webcam - at least low quality.

Authenticated

Sign In > Sign in with LDAP > Username: <uzh shortname>, Password: <UZH Webpass>

Self Registration

Sign up: Full name, Password

Browser

Best (Audio, Screen share): Google Chrome, Firefox - MacOS Safari is instable

Mobile

No App necessary. Use standard browser.

Screen Share

Desktop, Application, Chrome Tab - Mobile: No internal screen sharing (use a notebook as presenter, share your iPad or Android screen to the notebook).

Whiteboard

Integrated. Optional: all users can write

Upload Documents

Only presenter

File sharing

None

Moderator features

Mute (all), switch off webcam, change presenter / moderator

Recording

Integrated, started by mouseclick, download is public

Group work

Break out rooms (part of a meeting)

Chat

all, 1:1

Notes

All can write on the same board

Raise Hand, Emoticons

Supported (check symbol of 'Users', left pane).

  • The service is hosted at I-MATH.
  • As long as our Y27 uplink is not saturated, we can create additional instances - we should not have performance problems.
  • The sound seems to be quite well.
  • BigBlueButton seems to be a 90% replacement of Adobe Connect, plus 'Break Out Rooms'.

Best Practice: Speaker

  • Sign in with your UZH Shortname and webpass password: Sign in > Sign in with LDAP.

  • Create a meeting room. One per lecture and/or per exercise. Room might persist over the whole semester.

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  • Publish the URL (on the lecture homepage, per email to the students).
    • There is no group permission - anyone who knows the meeting room URL might attend.
  • After every login: As speaker, always select microphone. Start a short audio test - you should hear youself as echo.

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  • If you have a PDF, PPT