Martian Dougiamis, the creator of Moodle and CEO of Moodle Pty, announced today the integration of BigBlueButton into Moodle Cloud, a free on-line version of Moodle available to teachers world-wide.
All teachers signing up for Moodle Cloud will receive an integration version of BigBlueButton, giving them the ability to interact with students in real-time from within a Moodle course. The integrated version is limited to 6 users in a session and does not support recordings.
The integration of BigBlueButton and Moodle gives remote students both a synchronous and asynchronous learning environments in one solution. For more information see Moodle Launches MoodleCloud – Free Hosting for Educators.