BigBlueButton 2.6 Released with Exciting New Features

BigBlueButton 2.6 is finally released with lot of exciting new features and improvements. The new version include a powerful and easy to use new whiteboard for increased engagement with your students.

The BigBlueButton 2.6 also includes enhancements to breakout rooms, polling, layout management, and a few bonus features for personalization and fun in your virtual classroom.

Announcing the release of the BigBlueButton 2.6, the official list of features includes:

• A Whiteboard That Wows – This release features a new and elegant whiteboard that supports fluid drawing, erasing, resizing, and moving of objects within the presentation area. It fully supports multi-user whiteboard capabilities so you can collaborate directly with students for one-on-one tutoring, group collaboration, and visual assessment. The whiteboard is designed for drawing, and your strokes and annotations will look fluid and hand-drawn.
• Breakout Rooms That Give Back – When you have students collaborate in breakout rooms, a common outcome is to have the students present the results of their collaboration to the rest of the class. Students can collaborate in breakout rooms with shared notes and, using the multi-user whiteboard, the new whiteboard in BigBlueButton.
• Your Layout, Your Way – As the presenter, you can control the focus of the layout.  Want to bring your student’s focus to webcams or presentations? There is a layout for that! You can also propagate your layout to all users anytime during the session.
• Pinning multiple webcams – You can now pin multiple webcams, which is good for students who rely on sign language to communicate for example.
• Set webcam image brightness – Give yourself a bit more light or dim your webcam brightness with ease.
• Upload custom webcam background
• Enable/Disable dark mode
• Easier Emoji picker

Check out the full list of exciting new features in BigblueButton 2.6 on the official website here.

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