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Also known as BBB, Big Blue Button

BigBlueButton is a free software virtual classroom software program designed for online education. It is primarily accessed through Learning Management Systems, providing engagement tools and analytics which enable educators to interact with their students remotely.

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Software.name
BigBlueButton
Software.logo
BigBlueButton logo.png
Software.screenshot
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Software.developer
BigBlueButton Inc.
Software.programming language
Java, Grails/Groovy, Scala (back-end), JavaScript/React (web framework) (front-end client)
Software.operating system
Linux
Software.genre
Collaborative software, Web conferencing
Software.license
LGPL
Software.website
bigbluebutton.org

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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. We designed BigBlueButton for online learning, it can be used for many other applications as well. The educational use cases for BigBlueButton are

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Wikidata facts

Official website
bigbluebutton.org
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software version identifier
3.0.25
inception
2007-00-00
source code repository URL
github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton
official blog URL
bigbluebutton.org/blog
short name
BBB
publication date
2007-00-00
social media followers
5723
Commons category
BigBlueButton
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BigBlueButton is a free software virtual classroom software program designed for online education. It is primarily accessed through Learning Management Systems, providing engagement tools and analytics which enable educators to interact with their students remotely.

== History == The project was started at Carleton University in 2007 by the Technology Innovation Management program. The first version, initially referred to as the Blindside project, was written by Richard Alam under the supervision of Tony Bailetti. BigBlueButton is an affiliate member of the Open Source Initiative. The BigBlueButton name derives from the idea that starting a web conference should be as simple as "pressing a (metaphorical) big blue button".

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