BigBlueButton

Product Overview

BigBlueButton is a comprehensive, open-source web conferencing solution designed for online learning and collaboration. This powerful platform supports real-time sharing of multimedia content, including audio, video, slides with whiteboard annotations, chat, and screen sharing. Instructors can engage remote students through various features such as polling, emojis, multi-user whiteboards, shared notes, and breakout rooms. The system also generates analytics for moderators to track session performance.

Main Features

BigBlueButton offers a wide range of features that make it an ideal solution for online learning and collaboration:

• Real-time sharing: Share audio, video, slides with whiteboard annotations, chat, and screen sharing in real-time.
• Instructor engagement tools: Engage remote students with polling, emojis, multi-user whiteboards, shared notes, and breakout rooms.
• Analytics: Generate analytics for moderators to track session performance and improve future sessions.
• Recording and playback: Record and playback content for later sharing or review.
• Multi-application support: Designed for online learning, but suitable for many other applications as well.

The latest version of BigBlueButton is 2.7, which can be easily installed on Ubuntu 20.04 using the bbb-install.sh script within 30 minutes (or your money back 😉). For full technical documentation, including architecture, features, API, and GreenLight (the default front-end), visit https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/.