BigBlueButton as a virtual classroom platform

BigBlueButton offers teachers an open-source virtual classroom with engagement tools, scalable pricing, and full branding control for online teaching.

Self-Hosted BigBlueButton: When Control Becomes a Liability

Organizations often underestimate the maintenance demands of self-hosted BigBlueButton, leading to security risks and performance problems that a managed service can prevent.

What the Greenlight Dashboard Does for BigBlueButton

Greenlight gives you a web UI for BigBlueButton, handling user management, meeting rooms, and recordings. It's the recommended frontend when you run BBB without an LMS.

Tutorials

BigBlueButton for Business Meetings

BigBlueButton offers businesses a secure, customizable virtual meeting environment with whiteboard collaboration, breakout rooms, and live polling.

Tutorials

Boosting Student Engagement in Online Teaching: The Webcam Dilemma

Teaching to a grid of black screens? Student engagement isn't about webcams. Discover proven in-person strategies and powerful virtual tools—like polls, whiteboards, and breakout rooms—that actually work, no cameras required.

Releases

BigBlueButton 3.0.31 Released: Client Fixes and New Guest Lobby Setting

Fixes for raised hand indicator on audio-only tiles and chat reply previews, plus a new client setting to hide the guest lobby position.

Releases

BigBlueButton 3.0.30 Released: Per-Meeting Recording Format Control

New per-meeting recording format options, plugin actions for screenshare and presentation upload, and session token hiding.

Releases

BigBlueButton 3.0.29 Released: Security Fixes Only

A critical security update addressing four vulnerabilities in whiteboard, API, playback, and presentation management.

Releases

BigBlueButton 3.0.28 Released: Breakout Room Enhancements and More

Focuses on breakout rooms with lock settings inheritance and recording parameter passthrough, plus LiveKit settings, accessibility improvements, and recording fixes.