UK Covid restrictions include work from home
As the new UK Covid restrictions advise working from home, it is perhaps time to reboot some thinking when it comes to video conferencing.,
Big blue button is an open source video conferencing platform, that has been developed with teaching in mind, but is an extremely capable platform.
There are lots of excellent features, but importantly it is secure, can be self hosted which makes it ideal for environments where privacy and data protection is very important (e.g schools) or hosted by a 3rd party within the UK or EU meaning it is then covered under the GDPR.
Unlike MS teams or zoom, there are very few cookies dumped on your computer, MS teams needs an MS account (or seems to). Zoom is limited to short calls unless you pay for the premium version, if you use the free version then adverts are going to be used.
BBB has NONE of this nonsense.
If you are a non profit, SME or school. You are able to use the instance at https://bbb.faircam.net for free. You will need to sign up using your organisation e-mail address. Students just need to be given a link to the teaching room and if set up a passcode.
If you need help setting up you can go to the BBB website above or chat on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel #phillw-social.
The above link opens up the Libera Chat web client page.
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