BigBlueButton for students

Navigate to the corresponding course in the TC and click on the BBB activity that has been set up in there.

You can access the meeting via the Join session button as soon as the meeting is open or moderators have joined. Outside this period, there is no button to join the meeting.

You can also join the conference later, as long as it is open. If your teachers have set it up this way, you will first enter a waiting room and a moderator will let you into the conference.

You will be asked if you want to join with microphone or just listen. If you join with a microphone, there will be an echo test at the beginning. If you change your microphone (e.g. from a headset to the laptop microphone), you will have to do another echo test.

BigBlueButton is structured as follows:

Centre: Presentations and videos of other participants

Bottom: Audio and video settings, muting, sharing, reactions and raising hands.

Left: Menus and features, e.g. see other participants, breakout rooms menu, shared notes, chat

Right centre: Editing tools to make annotations directly on the presentation (must be allowed by teachers)

Additional information may be displayed, such as surveys. These are activated by teachers.

If teachers have recorded the online conference, you can access the recording in the TUbe series of the respective TeachCenter course some time after the session has ended.

After the end of the meeting, it still takes some time to process the recordings, which is why they are only accessible with a time delay.