InstructureCon 2024  |  July 9th – 11th

InstructureCon 2024
July 9th – 11th

At 8:30 AM the world begins teaching with BigBlueButton

BigBlueButton is virtual classroom software that has been designed around the real-world needs of teachers, students, and schools.

At 8:30 AM the world begins teaching with BigBlueButton

BigBlueButton is virtual classroom software that has been designed around the real-world needs of teachers, students, and schools.

A Pedagogic-Centric Virtual Classroom

We believe the most effective virtual classroom is one that maximizes time for applied learning and feedback. 

How do our brains learn?  Learning occurs in stages (think Bloom’s Taxonomy).  Competency and mastery comes from taking a basic-understanding of something and putting effort into applying it, struggling with it, and reaching deeper understanding as a result.

We believe that the platform for delivering effective virtual classes should be pedagogic centric, not video-centric.  Video is good for building relationships and trust, but real learning occurs when students have opportunities to apply their knowledge.  

The goal of the virtual classroom is not to meet, it is to learn.  BigBlueButton gives you built-in tools for applied learning (no need for 3rd party websites), live analytics to see who is struggling, and an interface designed to save you time during your class so you have more time to help students through their learning journey.


Built by teachers, for teachers

BigBlueButton is a global teaching platform. It was developed in a school, not in a boardroom. Making it the only virtual classroom built from the ground up, just for teachers.

It’s available in 65 languages and teachers all over the world have contributed to its design. Along with a global network of developers and companies providing commercial support, BigBlueButton is continuously evolving to meet the new real-world needs of teachers everywhere.

When we make teaching easier, we improve student outcomes.

Deep LMS integration

Synchronous learning tools should feel like part of your learning management system (LMS). Instructure, Schoology, Jenzabar and D2L all ship their LMS with a native integration for BigBlueButton, and Moodle and Sakai have offer plugins for deep integration. And BigBlueButton is learning tools interoperability (LTI) 1.0 compliant for widest adoption.

Deep LMS integration

Synchronous learning tools should feel like part of your learning management system (LMS). Instructure, Schoology, Jenzabar and D2L all ship their LMS with a native integration for BigBlueButton, and Moodle and Sakai have offer plugins for deep integration. And BigBlueButton is learning tools interoperability (LTI) 1.0 compliant for widest adoption.

Open Source

Want a system that gives you the ability to customize right to the code? That’s us.

Developer Friendly

BigBlueButton backed by a world-wide community of open source  developers (and commercial companies) that care about making the best virtual classroom platform for online learning.

APIs

BigBlueButton’s simple application programming interface (API) makes it easy to integrate with your own products.

Integrations

KLAUS KNOPPER

Professor at The University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern

Thank you for creating BigBlueButton. It's a great Open Source software which has saved many lives. I use it for my lectures all the time, and the special features for interacting such as shared notes, whiteboard, polling (also anonymous polls) are great. There is no conference software which meets that.

A community of engaged developers

The BigBlueButton developer community has seen great success over the years with a growing mailing list of over 2,500 members and a Github repository that has been forked by other developers over 3,200 times.

A community of engaged developers

The BigBlueButton developer community has seen great success over the years with a growing mailing list of over 2,500 members and a Github repository that has been forked by other developers over 3,200 times.

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See What's In Our Newest Release

BigBlueButton 2.5 is out now. Click on this video to see the new features and to learn how we’re working to bring you the world’s most teacher-centric virtual classroom.

BigBlueButtonWorld 2022 is a wrap!

The recordings from BigBlueButtonWorld 2022 are available here.  

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