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Overview

BigBlueButton

4.2

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Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About BigBlueButton

BigBlueButton is a web conferencing software designed to help schools and teachers share learning content with students across remote locations. Key features include an interactive whiteboard, polling, emojis, session recording, real-time broadcasting, screen sharing, virtual classrooms and breakout rooms.

Teaching professionals using BigBlueButton can share slides, video, audio, chat and desktop with students. Built-in polling and lecture recording functionalities allow teachers to increase student engagement. Teams can use the live whiteboard to create annotations on screens that can be viewed by participants in real-time.

BigBlueButton's API facilitates integration with various third-party applications, such as Atutor, Canvas, Drupal, Moodle, RedMine, WordPress and more. Support is extended via documentation and FAQs.

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BigBlueButton Features

Popular features found in Virtual Classroom
Breakout Rooms
File Sharing
Interactive Whiteboard
Polls/Voting
Raise Hand
Session Recording
More features of BigBlueButton
API
Call Recording
Chat/Messaging
Conferencing
Electronic Hand Raising
For Schools
HD Audio/Video
Host Controls
Learning Management
Live Chat
LMS Integration (LTI)
On-Demand Recording
Online Classes
Parent/Student Portal
Presentation Streaming
Presentation Tools
Private Chat
Real-time Broadcasting
Real-Time Chat
Recording
Screen Sharing
Student Portal
Surveys & Feedback
Third-Party Integrations
Two Way Audio & Video
Two-Way Audio & Video
Video Call Recording
Video Conferencing
Video Management
Video Streaming
Video Support
Virtual Classroom
Whiteboard

BigBlueButton Integrations

Drupal

Fedena

Docebo

Schoology

WordPress

Moodle

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BigBlueButton User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.2

Ratings Breakdown

41%

42%

11%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

3.6

Functionality

4.2

Yavuz Furkan K.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Best Online Education Platform

It's a simple and effective educational application that I like.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use and nice interface. It is designed with eye-catching colors and the widgets are nicely positioned. An app with all the necessary features.

Cons:

Unknown software. There may be problems with notifications.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Free Virtual classroom and Video conferencing

We have integrated BBB with state school LMS of our region. When only the presenter sharing his video this is running very smoothly. Need more resources to open everyone's video. However this product has amazing features specially for virtual classrooms. For me this is very much better than Flagship products.

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

+Installation is easy +Clarity of video and audio is very high +Presentations can be uploaded and can present online instead of sharing presenter's screen. +Customizable +Can be integrated with major LMS like Moodle, Jenzabar etc

Cons:

+ Resource hungry when multiple users using camera/video + Not all OS/platforms are supported. + Lack of community support.

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Reviewer

Writing and Editing

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Easy to use software with few drawbacks

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

You can organize breakout rooms and flexibly decide to extend or not the time participants spend in the breakout rooms; you can organize quizzes/surveys;

Cons:

screensharing sometimes is not working or it interrupts, so you better upload your presentation directly on BigBlueButton;

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Reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

Simple Webconferencing software, but lacking in big name features

Overall works well, but would prefer other competitors such as Zoom or Google Meets.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This software is integrated with Canvas LMS by Instructure, making it easy for schools already using the Canvas LMS to adopt. It has a robust security system to prevent "zoombombing" as only registered people in each course can access the conference they have been invited to with a unique user token. Certain features such as breakout rooms, shared whiteboard and embedded video player would rival other video conferencing software such as Google Meets, and it most definitely has most if not all classroom needs for most schools around the world. The Learning curve is low, and it runs smoothly most of the time. Private chat works very well, and is intuitive to use.

Cons:

The design is a bit outdated, and looks a slightly boring. "Hot" features right now such as virtual backgrounds and full screen tile view is not up to par with competitors, and there are small annoyances such as keyboard shortcuts not working on MACs and the need to do an "echo test" every time I enter a new conference which takes several seconds off my precious time. Additionally, the ability to record a conference after having entered and forgotten to click the "make conference recordable" button while creating the conference results in having to have everyone leave the conference and have a new one created. Lastly, although I like the breakout rooms feature, if you so happen to put a timer for the breakout rooms to be less than needed, there is no option to extend the time without having all the breakout rooms close and reopen - something that happens way too often.

Damla T.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Needs improvement

It was problematic. It was nice to use a clean and minimal interface but the icons made it difficult to understand which button is for what use and most problematic part was that you cannot undo simplest tasks (i.e. undo something you wrote on whiteboard). PPT upload for presentation takes too long and you lose presentation screen completely, which causes you to lose control of the class and chat during that time.

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Value for money

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Pros:

Minimalist and clean looking interface.

Cons:

not memorable, error correction is almost impossible, icons do not explain themselves and there are different areas on the presentation screen where functions are scattered, hard to find some of them. Some commands are easily confused with each other.

Evans M.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Decent virtual classroom

Not my go-to option

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Built well for an LMS. A great tool in the pandemic.

Cons:

Turning on mics and videos can be a hassle, you often have to leave the call if you didn't turn them on the first time. Accessing recordings can be a pain. Breakout rooms can sometimes be tricky to set up

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Reviewer

Hospitality

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Great for Online Tutoring

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I started using this product when my volunteer tutoring went from in-person to online. It's very interactive so that both the student and tutor can be typing information. You can also upload worksheets to fill in or write on. It also includes other common features like video, shared screen and a whiteboard.

Cons:

Some of the features are a bit clunky. You can type on the screen but you need to create a text box first. Depending on how much text you have and the size of the box, you may not be able to see all of the text. It also makes it hard to continue to add text after you close the box. There's also been technical difficulties where one user can't see what they are typing. There's no flashy things like emoji reactions or noise canceling features.

Marco M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

A full fledged video communication environment which integrates well

Very, very good. Easy to interact with, usable, stable.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Quality and easy of use are foremost. You integrates it seamlessly with your environment

Cons:

the application is demanding on performance and requires a real implementation more than a virtual one

Ethan L.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2020

It Worked

It worked well. Teachers were able to get everybody in a session, they could share documents or videos or songs, and they could record sessions. It worked well for us.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

We used this software to have class meetings. I think one of the best features of BigBlueButton was the screen share feature. Teachers could bring documents up seamlessly while talking about a subject. Distance didn't really get in the way, and some cohorts were students from different countries.

Cons:

I don't think there was a lot that people didn't like. A pro/con of the software was that it was only accessible through Canvas which were we using. So you could only use it if you were in our Canvas program. But that was good for students and teachers because their video conferencing software was right at their fingertips.

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Reviewer

E-Learning

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Unstable product

I do not recommend it at all, they have to type on it it's a beta project.

Ratings Breakdown

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Functionality

Pros:

Join from the browser no need to download any app.

Cons:

1- you can not host more than 100 participants. 2- If 100 participants or lower, keep typing on chat continuously the meeting will lagging so much. 3- Using node js single thread (disaster) 4- Some IOS users won't hear anything if they join in a listen-only mode. 5- Core developers maybe take more that one year to add/fix a single feature. 6- Delay audio and video on recording if you use screen share (in some cases). 7- Very bad UX. 8- Download mp4 not supported you have to use third party fork. 9- No immediate support only ( google community) be ready to ignore your questions.

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