Using an iPad

Variant 1: Use the Whiteboard of BigBlueButton

This seems to be the easiest solution; however, antialiasing seems to be rather poor and there might be some delays. While this is not an issue when simply annotating PDFs, it might be inconvenient for writing longer texts.

This method may be feasible in an exam-like setting, but note that there is no possibility of exporting the annotated slides out of BigBlueButton. If there is a recording of the session, you can skip through the video and make screenshots of the annotated slides. Otherwise you need to do that before ending the conference, or else your annotations are lost.

Variant 2: Mirror the Screen of your iPad to your Computer and Share the Computer Screen

There is a variety of iPad apps that can be used for giving a talk or a lecture. Apart from the in-built Notes app, I can recommend using

This raises the question of how to share your iPad screen in BigBlueButton. Unfortunately, due to the current limitations of mobile browsers, this is not possible from the iPad itself; it is required to stream your display to a computer and from there to BigBlueButton.

In case you have a Mac, this can be done via a wired connection. After connecting the iPad to the Mac, QuickTime should recognize the iPad screen as an input which allows you to share the iPad display with BigBlueButton from there.

Otherwise there are several other solutions that allow streaming your display via a network connection to your computer. You might want to try

If you have any further suggestions, please contact Clemens Heuberger.