BigBlueButton
About BigBlueButton
BigBlueButton is an open-source web collaboration software utilized by education organizations for e-learning and training. The software offers numerous options for customization and integration as per requirements of the users.
BigBlueButton enables users to conduct web-conferencing and share documents, audio and video files for online learning. The software’s “whiteboard” feature allows presenters to mark valuable topics in the presentation. In addition, its “polling” feature engages learners and helps the presenter to receive feedback. BigBlueButton’s “desktop sharing” feature extends beyonds slides and allows moderators to share their screen with the audience enabling a better understanding of topics.
BigBlueButton supports multiple users in a video conference with no cap on numbers of active webcams. The software also supports voice conferencing via Voice Over IP (VOIP) without additional hardware requirements.
Key benefits of BigBlueButton
BigBlueButton is an open-source software, so no capital expenditure is incurred on its deployment. Additionally, developers can customize its full source API and integrate it with IMS Learning Tools.
BigBlueButton assists in online learning via web-conferencing. Users can share documents, audio and video files for collaboration.
Presenters can showcase any PDF or Microsoft Office document and annotate important topics with BigBlueButton’s whiteboard feature.
Learners can interact with professors or fellow students via a private or public chat.
BigBlueButton allows users to record webinars and lectures for later playback for better understanding.
Other useful features of BigBlueButton are desktop sharing, polling, WebRTC (Web Real Time Communication) audio, and voice conferencing.
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- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A free Conferencing system with a lot of features!
Reviewed on 2021/09/08
It was very easy to install. I had a great conference everytime I used Bigbluebutton. Just when I...
It was very easy to install. I had a great conference everytime I used Bigbluebutton. Just when I had clients using mac. I needed to consider another software having multiple os supporting feature.
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I love how stable the video and audio quality is! And a lot of features and functionality it provides like hand raising, file sharing, whiteboard, polls, presentation tools, presentation streaming, screensharing, recording and more. And all of these are so stable and smooth working. I am really very satisfied with Bigbluebutton.
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There are some cons but they're so less comparing to the pros. It's only available in Linux and Windows. Mobile and mac users can't use it. Community support lacks a bit.
- Industry: Computer Games
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Perfect tool for video Conferencing and Online Discussions
Reviewed on 2022/06/07
Throughout my experiences using BigBlueButton i noticed the software works best with computers of...
Throughout my experiences using BigBlueButton i noticed the software works best with computers of RAM starting from 4GB anything below tends to slow down the video real time signal and it freeze
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The best thing I like about BigBlueButton is its integration with the Learning Management Systems. This saves a lot of time and effort since all the necessary tools are available to aid learning sessions. Another thing is also it's customization for example choosing own colors and designs for the online classroom, enabling or disabling features based on your demands
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I think have no issue with BigBlueButton and still hoping to discover more interesting features
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
good software ... but!
Reviewed on 2020/10/26
overall bbb is good software to manage video conference if develop process continue as it is maybe...
overall bbb is good software to manage video conference if develop process continue as it is maybe in 3 years we will have golden product
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bbb is very easy to set , implement and lunch and has very simple view help anyone to manage it , beside it is large community and devloping proccess
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i think the position of developing cycle is wrong i mean bbb need more develop for customer and end user who is not technical i mean for all our teacher how hard it was to manage and customize and that is first;
second bbb has weak error view system for example sometimes internet connection is too bad for sharing and bbb loading for ever it will be greate to show error msg "hi your connection is bad" that so simple but i think end user ( no technical user ) is not calculated here.
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Below are some frequently asked questions for BigBlueButton.Q. What type of pricing plans does BigBlueButton offer?
BigBlueButton offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Not Available
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Q. Who are the typical users of BigBlueButton?
BigBlueButton has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does BigBlueButton support?
BigBlueButton supports the following languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish
Q. Does BigBlueButton support mobile devices?
BigBlueButton supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does BigBlueButton integrate with?
BigBlueButton integrates with the following applications:
Docebo, Drupal, Fedena, Moodle, Redmine, Schoology, WordPress, eFront
Q. What level of support does BigBlueButton offer?
BigBlueButton offers the following support options:
FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat
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