Case Study: School on Wheels provides online education for homeless children with BigBlueButton

BigBlueButton Helps Provide Online Education To Homeless Children

School on Wheels, a non-profit organization supporting the educational needs of children experiencing homelessness in Southern California, faced the immense challenge of continuing to provide consistent one-on-one tutoring during the pandemic. Their students, who are nine times more likely to repeat a grade, lacked stable access to both education and technology. The vendor, BigBlueButton, provided its open-source web conferencing service to help overcome this challenge.

By implementing the BigBlueButton virtual classroom, School on Wheels was able to quickly pivot its already robust online program to fully remote tutoring. The solution provided an engaging and easy-to-access classroom-like experience for tutors and students. This allowed the organization to deliver over 1.8 million minutes of online classes, supporting 2,360 students with the help of 1,602 volunteers and demonstrating a significant measurable impact.

School on Wheels

Emma Gerch

Digital Learning Specialist