Doing group work with your students over a traditional video conference has always been a challenge, requiring one to set up multiple video calls which have to be juggled and supervised in a non-evident manner. The BlueJeans video conference platform has an elegant solution to this problem, however, in the form of breakout rooms. Breakout …
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Bluejeans Virtual Meetings @ Bishop’s
Bluejeans is the video conferencing service we use here on campus. It offers high quality video streaming and is very easy to use and to set up. All BlueJeans meetings need to be setup by ITS. Learn more on how to request meetings and how to use BlueJeans here. How to request a meeting Joining …
Synchronous Online Lectures with BlueJeans
Video conferencing offers the closest experience to an in-classroom lecture. While it is strongly recommended that as much class instruction be delivered in an asynchronous manner, sometimes there simply is no substitute for a classroom-like real-time interaction. To fill this need, our campus offers the BlueJeans video conferencing platform. While video conferencing in its present …
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Showing a Web Video on a Video Conference
Being able to play video or audio clips over a BlueJeans video conference is an invaluable tool, but while sharing the video is a simple matter of sharing the appropriate application, you will find that the sound from that application doesn’t transfer over the video conference by default. BlueJeans has considered this use case, however, …
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