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Easiest Online Classes at Lowest Cost
BigBlueButton is like-Zoom for online classes but at a much lower cost.
You get full control over your students’ data. Offer classes with your URL and branding. Quickly start and scale as you need with our monthly subscription.
#1 Open-source Video Conferencing for Online Classes
Attendance
Get analytics including time of joining and leaving, chat transcript, emoji and polls
Your URL
Build and promote your online classes with your brand, url, logo and theme
Your LMS
Integrate with Moodle, Zoomla, Canvas, Sakai, Wordpress or any other LMS
New Features
Download MP4, livestream on YouTube, Facebook or your RTMP server
Monthly Subscription
Pay a monthly fee to get your dedicated BBB server; don't pay when no classes;
Data Privacy
Get complete control of your students’ data, without ever sharing with any 3rd party
Fast Support
Count on real-fast and real-person tech support for troubleshooting and upgrades
Scale with Ease
Load balancers with multiple servers to teach 1000s of students simultaneously
Zoom vs BigBlueButton
| Zoom | BBB | |
| Primary purpose | Online meetings | Online classes |
| Video & Audio | Yes | Yes |
| Chat | Yes | Yes |
| Screen share | Yes | Yes |
| Application share | Yes | No |
| Share computer sound | Yes | Yes (Virtual Audio Cable) |
| MP4 Recording | Yes | Yes |
| Whiteboard | Yes | Yes |
| Annotate Presentation | Yes | Yes |
| Break-out room | Yes | Yes |
| Co-host/Moderator | Yes | Yes |
| Polls | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual hand raise | Yes | Yes |
| Status Emojis | Yes | Yes |
| File transfer | Yes | No (share link on chat) |
| Shared notes | No | Yes |
| Dial-in with phone | Yes | Yes |
| Shares data with 3rd party | Yes (Shares data with Facebook and other advertisers) | No (You host on your own servers) |
| Custom Domain | No | Yes (You can host under your own domain) |
| Analytics | Minimal | Detailed (attendance, chat transcripts, poll answers, hands raised) |
| Integration with LMS | Completely separate from LMS | Integrates with many LMS including Moodle, Canvas, Joomla, Schoology, and WordPress |
| Desktop client or browser | Desktop client with frequent updates and one-time audio plug-in | Runs in browser. No need for any additional app. |
| Data privacy | No | Yes (You can host on your own server and control whether and which user data is tracked) |
Real-time Performance Dashboard
- Analytics dashboards to monitor users in real-time
- Turn server to help connect your users behind firewall
- Optimized to ensure reliable audio and video
- 8 Core CPU, 32 GB RAM, 2 TB HDD, dedicated server
- RAID 1 for redundancy and LVM for large recording storage
- MP4 recordings and backup at AWS S3
Our Custom Apps to Extend BBB
MP4
bbb-mp4: Easily integrate this app into your BigBlueButton server to automatically convert class recordings into MP4.
Live Stream
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