BigBlueButton is a powerful and versatile open-source web conferencing platform designed primarily for educational and online collaboration purposes. With its user-friendly interface and a wide range of interactive features, BigBlueButton offers a dynamic virtual environment that facilitates seamless communication and learning experiences.

The BigBlueButton 2.7 is the next major version to be released soon. BigBlueButton 2.7 offers users improved usability, increased engagement, and more performance. The new version will include a lot of exciting new features. Here is a brief glimpse on few of the new features coming in BigBlueButton 2.7:

• Grid layout – The new grid layout provides a visual representation of each participant by focusing on the webcams.
• Share camera as a content – Want to share something on physical whiteboard? Now you can share your webcam as the content to draw the attention of students to a specific physical area.
• Disable viewing your own video stream – You can now disable the self viewing of your webcam to reduce fatigue of seeing your own webcam stream.
• Restore downloading of original presentation – In the BigBlueButton 2.7 version, you can download the original presentation as well as the presentation with all the annotations embedded in it. You can also download the presentations in PDF format.
• Timer & Stopwatch – Now you can display a count down (timer) or a count up (stopwatch) in the session. They are displayed to all participants and there is an audio notification when the timer elapses.
• Reaction Bar – The Reactions Bar aims to make it much easier for students to respond with emojis to the teacher.

The new version is built around 20.04 64-bit and is going to be released soon. Stay tuned for more updates.

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