What is BigBlueButton?
BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing tool that allows educators to deliver engaging and interactive online learning experiences to their students. By integrating with the popular Moodle LMS, BigBlueButton makes it easy for educators to create and manage online courses and lectures. With BigBlueButton, educators can share documents, webcams, audio, text-based chat, and even their desktop screen with their learners. This allows for a more interactive and engaging learning experience, compared to traditional online learning methods.
BigBlueButton is hosted by our partners at Blindside Networks, ensuring reliable and high-quality performance. This means that educators and learners can use the platform without worrying about technical issues or downtime. Additionally, Blindside Networks provides support and resources to help educators get the most out of BigBlueButton.
One of the key advantages of BigBlueButton is its open source nature. This means that the platform is continuously being improved and updated by a community of developers and users. As a result, BigBlueButton offers a wide range of features and capabilities that are constantly evolving and improving. This makes it a great choice for educators who want to use a web conferencing tool that is reliable, flexible, and constantly improving.
Another advantage of BigBlueButton is its integration with the Moodle LMS. Moodle is one of the most popular learning management systems in the world, and it is used by millions of educators and learners. By integrating with Moodle, BigBlueButton makes it easy for educators to create and manage online courses and lectures within the Moodle platform. This allows educators to take advantage of the powerful features and capabilities of Moodle, while also using BigBlueButton for web conferencing and interactive learning.
A lite* version of BigBlueButton hosting for all of our clients FREE of charge!
We install a web conference plugin for Moodle, so within the LMS sessions can be recorded, and stored. So this gives easy access for absent learners or for later review.
One of the key features of BigBlueButton is its built-in whiteboard, which allows educators to annotate over the top of their presentation or lecture notes. This can be a useful tool for highlighting important points, drawing diagrams, or providing additional explanations.
Another important feature of BigBlueButton is the ability for the presenter to control the view that the audience receives. This means that the presenter can decide what content to share with the audience, and can even limit the audience's ability to view certain parts of the presentation. This can be useful for maintaining the focus of the audience and ensuring that they are receiving the most important information.
BigBlueButton is a robust open-source virtual classroom platform that supports screen sharing and a range of interactive features to increase student engagement. It can easily integrate with any learning management system, allowing educators to seamlessly conduct online classes and manage their course content. With Big Blue Button, instructors can create an immersive and collaborative learning experience by using tools like breakout rooms, polling, and whiteboard sessions. Its intuitive interface and advanced functionalities make it an ideal choice for online education.
VoIP - join your web conference via a phone call
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a technology that allows users to make phone calls over the internet. With VoIP, users can join a web conference via a phone call, rather than using a computer or other device. This can be useful for users who have unreliable internet connections, as it can improve the quality and stability of the audio for the web conference.
BigBlueButton hosting supports VoIP, allowing users to dial into the web conference using a VoIP line. This means that users can join the audio portion of the conference using a phone, rather than a computer or other device. This can be especially useful for tutorial groups or business conferences, where multiple users may be sharing webcams and audio simultaneously.
Overall, VoIP is a useful feature that can improve the quality and reliability of web conferences, and is supported by BigBlueButton hosting. If you're looking for a web conferencing tool that offers this capability, consider using BigBlueButton.
Finally, for more information, or to request a demo get in touch with us today. If you already have a Moodle hosting site with us, we can get you going with BigBlueButton hosting immediately. Pricing for the full version can be found on your relevant country page.
*Pukunui's BigBlueButton hosting lite is restricted to a maximum of 25 users, recordings expire after 7 days (not downloadable) and no breakout rooms for the chat module. The free / lite tier is meant for occasional use to sample / try out BigBlueButton hosting and not for high volume, production use. We can not guarantee availability / access.
iMoot and BigBlueButton
We've been very impressed Pukunui's Moodle skills and their successful hosting of iMoot, the yearly virtual conference for the Moodle community. We've been working with Pukunui for over five years and can attest that Pukunui knows Moodle and BigBlueButton very well indeed.
Pukunui’s products and services for BigBlueButton are not endorsed or certified by BigBlueButton Inc. BigBlueButton and the BigBlueButton Logo are trademarks of BigBlueButton Inc. Our BigBlueButton hosting is provided by our partners Blindside Networks.