bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton
A complete web conferencing system for virtual classes and more!
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 237 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a complete open-source web conferencing system optimized for virtual classrooms and online learning.
- Enables real-time interactive features like audio, video, slides with annotations, chat, polling, and breakout rooms tailored for education.
- Use for conducting one-to-one online tutoring sessions with live interaction and content sharing.
- Use for hosting flipped classrooms by recording lectures in advance and engaging students during live sessions.
- Use for facilitating group collaboration and large online classes with multi-user whiteboards and shared notes.
Should you depend on it?
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License
LGPL 3.0
Weak copyleft: changes to the licensed code itself must be shared when you distribute it, but code that merely uses it can stay under your own license.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom designed to help teachers teach and learners learn.
BigBlueButton supports real-time sharing of audio, video, slides (with whiteboard annotations), chat, and the screen. Instructors can engage remote students with polling, emojis, multi-user whiteboards, shared notes, and breakout rooms. During the session, BigBlueButton generates analytics that are visible to moderators in the Learning Analytics Dashboard.
Presenters can record and playback content for later sharing with others.
We designed BigBlueButton for online learning, it can be used for many other applications as well. The educational use cases for BigBlueButton are
The latest version is BigBlueButton 3.0. You can install BigBlueButton it on Ubuntu 22.04 using bbb-install.sh within 30 minutes (or your money back 😉).
For full technical documentation of BigBlueButton -- including architecture, features, API, and GreenLight (the default front-end) -- see https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/.
BigBlueButton and the BigBlueButton Logo are trademarks of BigBlueButton Inc.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
6.0K+3
Open issues
822+105
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| Category median | 22.8K | +4.8K | 75 | — |
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