Comprehensive BigBlueButton Guide: How to Use BigBlueButton for Online Classes

Explore our extensive BigBlueButton guide and learn how to navigate this open-source online classroom software effectively. From setting up sessions to interactive teaching tools, this guide covers it all.

BigBlueButton Scalelite: Exciting Journey to Scalable Learning

Discover how to scale your BigBlueButton servers efficiently using Scalelite, an open-source load balancer. Understand Scalelite’s architecture, server requirements, and implementation details to enhance your online conferencing experience.

BigBlueButton System Requirements: Your Key to Effective Online Learning

Dive into our comprehensive guide to understand the system requirements for BigBlueButton, covering hardware, software, and bandwidth needs. Equip yourself for a smooth online meeting experience with BigBlueButton.

Troubleshooting BigBlueButton Issues: A Comprehensive Guide

Explore our complete guide to resolving common BigBlueButton issues. From installation woes to webcam troubles, find practical solutions and community support to keep your virtual classrooms running smoothly.

A Comprehensive Guide on BigBlueButton Server Requirements

Discover the latest BigBlueButton server requirements for optimal performance. Understand how to set up your server from scratch or tailor it for local development.

How to Install BigBlueButton: A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide

Discover the step-by-step process for installing BigBlueButton, the open-source virtual classroom software. This guide covers everything from server requirements to the actual installation process.

Unmasking BigBlueButton Pricing: Is it Really Free or Costly?

Uncover the true costs of using BigBlueButton, an open-source online classroom software. Explore the expenses of running your own server versus opting for a subscription plan.

How Can BigBlueButton Greenlight Enhance Your Web Conferencing Experience?

Explore the potential of BigBlueButton Greenlight, a user-friendly, open-source web application that revolutionizes your web conferencing platform. Learn about its features, installation, and why it’s trusted by organizations worldwide.

Understanding the Front-End Options for BigBlueButton: A Comprehensive Guide

Explore the various front-end options available with BigBlueButton, including integration with learning management systems and the use of the default front-end, Greenlight. Learn how to maximize your BigBlueButton capacity.

BigBlueButton Demo: Discover the Power of Virtual Classrooms

Explore our deep dive into the capacity of BigBlueButton, the open-source online classroom software. Learn about its scalability, user limit, and how it handles large sessions.

Free BigBlueButton Plugins

Try out these plugins to enhance your BigBlueButton online classes experience

MP4 Recordings

bbb-mp4: Convert your BigBlueButton recordings into MP4 videos. This allows your users to play recordings on any device or you to archieve your recordings for future use. 

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Live Streaming

bbb-streaming: Live stream your BigBlueButton classes on Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo or any RTMP servers to teach thousands of students concurrently.

Dial-in Number

bbb-twilio: Integrate Twilio into BigBlueButton so that your students, with poor internet, can join BigBlueButton classes by a dialing-in phone number.

Optimize

bbb-optimize: Multiple optimizations to BigBlueButton including better audio, fix 1007/1020 errors, dynamic video profile, pagination and more.

Whiteboard

bbb-jamboard: Integrate Google Jamboard into BigBlueButton. Jamboard is a digital interactive whiteboard developed by Google and can be used in stead of the default BugBlueButton whiteboard.

Recording Server

bbb-recording-server: Process BigBlueButton recordings on a separate server that improves performance as all server resources are dedicated towards conducting live classes.

Moodle

Moodle is the world's most popular learning management system.

Wordpress

WordPress is open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

Looking for more? Check-out more LMS integrations available on the official BigBlueButton page.

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BigBlueButton Security

BigBlueButton is one of the most popular open-source software solutions for taking online classes and a good alternative to Zoom with respect to privacy. BigBlueButton encrypts all content that is sent between your browser and the website server.  BigBlueButton always...

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BigBlueButton secure recording

BigBlueButton records all the events of BigBlueButton classes for later playback. In a session with recording enabled, BigBlueButton will save the slideschat and audiodesktop sharing (deskshare)whiteboard eventsshared notes and poll resultscaptionswebcams To secure...

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How to Set BigBlueButton Theme

You can change theme color, set wall-paper and show your logo in a BigBlueButton live session. You can also many aspects of live classes including allowing moderator to unmute users or allow users to send private message.

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BigBlueButton 2.5: More Stable and Better Performance

BigBlueButton is known for 15-minute straight forward installation. Installation becomes still easier with the upcoming version 2.5 of BigBlueButton. BigBlueButton 2.5 has better packaging and configuration, resulting in much easier installation and very few...

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BigBlueButton vs Zoom: 40% lower costs + more features

The primary purpose of Zoom is online meetings, whereas the primary purpose of BigBlueButton is online teaching. Hence BigBlueButton focuses on providing features for student engagement during the class and analytics from the classes to assess and evaluate students....

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How to customize BigBlueButton header?

Do you want to customize your BigBlueButton HTML5 client without breaking anything? Do you want to add custom integrations like Google Analytics? Do you want to integrated hotjar? Here is a quick way to add custom javascript code to HTML5 client head. Create a new...

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Ask for feedback after a BigBlueButton session

Do you care whether your students liked your online class? Was it useful? Fun? Here is a quick way to ask for users’ feedback at the end of the class.   To enable the user feedback and make it available for later reference, execute the following script:...

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How to disable audio alerts in BigBlueButton?

If you are a regular BigBlueButton administrator, you have received user complaints about audio alerts.  When a user in a session mutes himself, the audio alerts goes: You are muted now. Similarly, when a user unmutes to start speaking, the audio alerts goes: You...

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Change text in BigBlueButton Guest Page

You might have noticed that your students see the standard message – BigBlueButton – Guest Lobby – while waiting on the guest page for the online session to start. Do you want to customize it? Read on.

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Is BigBlueButton Free | Costs and hosting options

Is BigBlueButton Free? Understand the true cost of owning and operating the open-source software. This comprehensive guide covers licensing restrictions, self-hosting, managed hosting, and the real price of running a BigBlueButton server including server, bandwidth, and storage costs.

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How to customize BigBlueButton recordings?

Do you want to show your logo in the BigBlueButton recording playback instead of the default BigBlueButton logo? Here is a simple way to achieve it. Put your logo on your BigBlueButton server. You can use SFTP to transfer the logo.Go to...

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Migrating safely to BigBlueButton 2.4

You must have heard about the latest release of BigBlueButton 2.4. Sharing our process to safely migrate our BBB servers running 2.2.x or 2.3.x to 2.4. 1. Take Backup # Note down your BBB secret so that you can set the same secret after upgrading to the 2.4 version...

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Log4j in BigBlueButton

Background Log4J Zero day was announced on Fri, Dec 10, as the highest (10.0 CVSS) critical Log4j vulnerability was discovered. The Log4Shell vulnerability was exploited by attackers worldwide, allowing malicious strings to be logged.Apache Log4j is an open-source...

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BigBlueButton: Call timed out error 1006

Problem Recently lots of BigBlueButton administrators have reported Call Timed Out 1006 errors while using BigBlueButton, especially on a Chrome Browser.  If you use the latest version of (96.0.4664.93) to join a BigBlueButton session, then while checking the...

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Six more Reasons to love BigBlueButton!

Today we ran a trial of BigBlueButton 2.4 [alpha 2] and we would love to share our first impression! While you can read the release note, the following are the top six features that we believe will help you conduct better online classes on BigBlueButton: 1) Real-time...

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Simpler Menu Labels

You can customize menu labels in BigBlueButton so that it’s more relevant for your users. Learn this tip in 2 minutes.

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BBB on AWS? Be aware of costs…

We want to share our recent experience of hosting BigBlueButton on AWS. Well, we were interested in AWS for two reasons:  Proximity to users and, hence, lower network latency, and Auto-scaling so that we can turn off the instances when not in use Our client, a school...

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BigBlueButton: How to host more concurrent users?

Are you interested in increasing number of concurrent users that you BigBlueButton server can host?  Here is a simple fix to improve perofrmance of NodeJS by up to 40%, resulting in increase in the nuber of concurrent users that your server can host. #1...

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