The platform apps.education.fr platform provides the educational community with a virtual classroom" service.
Features include:
- a whiteboard for annotating documents;
- a collaborative note-taking tool;
- the possibility of creating multiple rooms, each with its own configuration;
- surveys to be offered to participants;
- an instant discussion space, general or between two participants
Once connected, the teacher will be able to create a virtual classroom and configure it, before sending a link to the students to connect.
Already available in all academies, the virtual classrooms service accessible on the apps.education.fr platform is the reference service, following the end of the CNED's "Mes classes virtuelles" service at the end of July 2022.
The Virtual Classroom service is based on the open source software BigBlueButton (BBB) which benefits from the contributions of a large community of contributors.
The data exchanged during each work session is stored in France and then destroyed at the end of the exchanges.
The apps.education.fr project
Apps.education.fr is a platform developed by the Digital Education Department to offer essential tools for everyday use to all National Education agents. In its finalized version, this project will offer users a nationwide platform of shared digital services.In addition to the "Virtual Classroom" videoconference, the apps.education.fr portal offers the following services
- Peertube : Videos
- Nextcloud : Document sharing
- Blogs: Publishing on the Web
- CodiMD : Multi-user writing
- Pod : Videos & audios
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