BigBlueButton
BigBlueButton is a free video classroom where teachers and students meet online, share audio, video, slides, screens and chat. It is aimed mainly at schools, tutors and online courses, and you install it on your own server.
Description written from the project's own page; checked by AI.
Screenshots1
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Listed in1
The jobs it does, and the closed apps it replaces
Video calls
Replaces partlyInstead of Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams · Built for classes; you host it
What's missing
Things people miss in BigBlueButton. Upvote what matters to you; it helps its team decide.
Facts
LicenseLGPL-3.0
Runs onyour own server
KindRuns on your own server
Stars on GitHub9.3k
Hosted onGitHub
ActivityChanged within the last year
Something wrong?
Wrong devices, a wrong description, or it isn't really open source? A mod reviews every suggestion.
What we couldn't confirm3
- Whether the Learning Analytics Dashboard and polling features are included in every install.
- Whether a hosted (non-self-hosted) version is offered by BigBlueButton Inc.
- The license file was not provided, so the license was confirmed only from the host's report.