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Please help improve it by removing promotional language and inappropriate external links , and by adding encyclopedic text written from a neutral point of view . See our advice if the article is about you and read our scam warning in case someone asks for money to edit this article. ( April 2021 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) BigBlueButton Developer BigBlueButton Inc. [ 1 ] Stable release 3.0.31 [ 2 ]   / 19 June 2026 ; 4 days ago  ( 19 June 2026 ) Written in Java , Grails/Groovy , Scala (back-end), JavaScript / React (web framework) (front-end client) Operating system Linux Type Collaborative software , Web conferencing License LGPL [ 3 ] Website bigbluebutton.org Repository github .com /bigbluebutton /bigbluebutton BigBlueButton is a free and open-source 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 [ edit ] The project was started at Carleton University in 2007 by the Technology Innovation Management program. [ 4 ] The first version, initially referred to as the Blindside project, was written by Richard Alam under the supervision of Tony Bailetti. [ 5 ] BigBlueButton is an affiliate member of the Open Source Initiative . [ 6 ] The BigBlueButton name derives from the idea that starting a web conference should be as simple as "pressing a (metaphorical) big blue button". [ 7 ] In 2009, Richard Alam, Denis Zgonjanin, and Fred Dixon uploaded the BigBlueButton source code to Google Code and formed Blindside Networks, a company pursuing the traditional open source business model of providing paid support and services to the BigBlueButton community. [ 8 ] In 2010, the core developers added a whiteboard for annotating the uploaded presentation. Jeremy Thomerson added an application programming interface (API) which the BigBlueButton community subsequently used to integrate with Sakai , [ 9 ] WordPress , [ 10 ] Moodle 1.9 , [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Moodle 2.0 , [ 12 ] Joomla , [ 13 ] Redmine , [ 14 ] Drupal , [ 15 ] Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware , [ 16 ] Foswiki , [ 17 ] and LAMS . [ 18 ] Google accepted BigBlueButton into the 2010 Google Summer of Code program. [ 19 ] To encourage contributions from others, the core developers moved the source code from Google Code to GitHub . [ 20 ] The project indicated its intent of creating an independent, not-for-profit BigBlueButton Foundation to oversee future development. [ 21 ] In 2011, the core developers announced that they were adding record and playback capabilities to BigBlueButton 0.80. [ 22 ] In 2020, the project released BigBlueButton 2.2, a full rewrite of the client and server to support HTML5. [ 23 ] In March 2020, BigBlueButton 2.2 was awarded by the President of the ENTD, [ 24 ] Pasquale Aiello , as the best web conferencing system and used in the project UNIOPEN, [ 25 ] approved by the European Commission for Digital Skills and Job Coalition [ 26 ] action plan. In 2021, version 2.3 was released. In 2022, BigBlueButton was directly embedded into the Moodle 4.0 core, the largest Learning Management System. It also released two new updates that included BigBlueButton 2.4 in January and BigBlueButton 2.5 in late September. BigBlueButton used a freely licensed version of MongoDB for version 2.2, but unintentionally picked up MongoDB's nonfree license change in 2.3. BigBlueButton worked to remove MongoDB and as of 3.0 no longer uses MongoDB. In 2025, BigBlueButton 3.0 was released. BigBlueButton continues to be used by organizations including the Ministry of National Education (France) , the Air Education and Training Command , not-for-profits such as School on Wheels , and schools throughout the world for remote learning and teaching. Version Release date Unsupported: 0.4 12 June 2009 Unsupported: 0.5 21 July 2009 Unsupported: 0.60 12 August 2009 Unsupported: 0.70 15 July 2010 [ 27 ] Unsupported: 0.8-beta1 12 September 2011 [ 28 ] Unsupported: 0.90-beta 15 October 2014 [ 29 ] Unsupported: 1.0-beta 6 October 2015 [ 30 ] Unsupported: 1.1 25 May 2017 Unsupported: 2.2 11 March 2020 Unsupported: 2.3 30 April 2021 Unsupported: 2.4 20 December 2021 [ 31 ] Unsupported: 2.5 9 June 2022 [ 32 ] Unsupported: 2.6 21 March 2023 [ 33 ] Supported: 2.7 7 September 2023 [ 34 ] Latest version: 3.0.0 February 28, 2025 [ 35 ] Legend: Unsupported Supported Latest version Preview version Future version Architecture [ edit ] As a web page application, the BigBlueButton frontend uses React and the backend uses MongoDB and Node.js . It also uses Redis to maintain an internal list of its meetings, attendees, and any other relevant information. As of version 2.5, the server runs on Ubuntu 20.04 64-bit and can be installed either from packages [ 36 ] or an install script. [ 37 ] Adoption among non-profits [ edit ] In 2020, BigBlueButton was adopted by many FLOSS focused non-profits including Wikimedia Australia , Constant vzw [ 38 ] and new FLOSS focused coops like Catalan's The Online Meeting Cooperative. [ 39 ] In France it is recommended since May 2020 by the Digital Interministry Direction defining the state's information and communication systems. [ 40 ] Third-party integrations [ edit ] Canvas (Learning management system) Chamilo (Learning management system) DoceboLMS (SaaS/cloud learning management system) Drupal (Content management system) ILIAS (Learning management system) Moodle (Learning management system) Mattermost (Web-based chat service) Nextcloud (Open source cloud solution) OpenOLAT (Learning management system) Sakai Project (Learning management system) Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware (Content management system) Qwerteach (Saas/Tutoring platform) WordPress (Content management system) KampüsProject (Learning management system) CollaboratorLMS (Learning management system) Smartschool (Web-based school platform) See also [ edit ] Collaborative software Web conferencing Comparison of web conferencing software References [ edit ] ^ BigBlueButton Foundation , 12 July 2010 ^ "Release 3.0.31" . 19 June 2026 . Retrieved 20 June 2026 . ^ "Open Source License | Open Source Project | BigBlueButton" . ^ Nettleton, Rob "BigBlueButton" Archived 2010-08-14 at the Wayback Machine , EDC Blog , June 4, 2010. ^ "Lead Projects" . TIM Review. Archived from the original on 29 March 2014 . Retrieved 15 August 2012 . ^ "OSI Affiliate Membership" . Open Source Initiative . 22 May 2012. Archived from the original on 13 June 2012 . Retrieved 18 February 2021 . ^ "BigBlueButton : FAQ" . BigBlueButton . Retrieved 27 November 2020 . ^ Dixon, Fred "Lessons from an Open Source Business" Archived 2012-05-01 at the Wayback Machine , Open Source Business Resource , April 2011. ^ "Home – Contrib: bigbluebutton – Confluence" . sakaiproject.org. Archived from the original on 22 October 2010 . Retrieved 23 October 2010 . ^ "WordPress Plugin Directory: BigBlueButton" . wordpress.org. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010 . Retrieved 23 October 2010 . ^ "Moodle.org: Modules and plugins: BigBlueButton" . moodle.org . Retrieved 23 October 2010 . ^ a b "BigBlueButton releases activity module integration for Moodle 1.9 & 2.0" . lmspulse.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2019 . Retrieved 18 January 2011 . ^ "BigBlueButton Integration – Joomla! Extensions Directory" . joomla.org. Archived from the original on 20 October 2010 . Retrieved 23 October 2010 . ^ "Redmine – PluginBBB – Redmine" . redmine.org. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010 . Retrieved 23 October 2010 . ^ "BigBlueButton - drupal.org" . drupal.org. 8 March 2010. Archived from the original on 15 May 2013 . Retrieved 23 October 2010 . ^ "BigBlueButton – Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware" . tiki.org . Retrieved 22 January 2011 . ^ "BigBlueButtonPlugin - foswiki.org" . foswiki.org. Archived from the original on 17 November 2010 . Retrieved 19 November 2010 . ^ "BigBlueButton integration - lamscommunity.org" . lamscommunity.org . Retrieved 8000 4 May 2011 . ^ "GSoC Organization for BigBlueButton" . appspot.com. Archived from the original on 26 July 2010 . Retrieved 23 October 2010 . ^ Dixon, Fred. "Minutes from BigBlueButton committers meeting 2010-04-27 – BigBlueButton-dev – Google Groups" . Retrieved 23 October 2010 . ^ Dixon, Fred "BigBlueButton Foundation" , BigBlueButton Blog , July 12, 2010 ^ Dixon, Fred. "BigBlueButton 0.8-beta-3 released – BigBlueButton-dev – Google Groups" . Retrieved 24 November 2010 . ^ Dixon, Fred (11 March 2020). "BigBlueButton 2.2" . Retrieved 11 March 2020 . ^ ENTDI, Direzione. "Home" . ENTD - Ente Nazionale Digitale ed Innovazione (in Italian) . Retrieved 18 February 2021 . ^ "Pledge Viewer | UNIOPEN" . pledgeviewer.eu . Archived from the original on 29 December 2020 . Retrieved 18 February 2021 . ^ oestean (10 October 2014). "The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition" . Shaping Europe’s digital future - European Commission . Retrieved 18 February 2021 . ^ bigbluebutton-0-7-is-released . 16 July 2010. ^ bigbluebutton-0-8-beta-released . 12 September 2011. ^ BigBlueButton 0.9.0-beta now available . 16 October 2014. ^ BigBlueButton 1.0-beta Released . 6 October 2015. ^ "Release BigBlueButton 2.4.0 · bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton" . GitHub . ^ "Release BigBlueButton 2.5.0 · bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton" . GitHub . ^ "Release BigBlueButton 2.6.0 · bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton" . GitHub . Retrieved 11 March 2024 . ^ "Release BigBlueButton 2.7.0 · bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton" . GitHub . Retrieved 11 March 2024 . ^ "Release BigBlueButton 3.0.0 · bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton" . GitHub . Retrieved 10 April 2025 . ^ "BigBlueButton : Install" . docs.bigbluebutton.org . ^ "bbb-install" . 2 January 2022 – via GitHub. ^ "VJ13 live | Prototypes for · pour · voor transmission" . Retrieved 6 March 2021 . ^ "About – The Online Meeting Cooperative" . Retrieved 6 March 2021 . ^ "Socle interministériel de logiciels libres" . Retrieved 22 May 2020 . . External links [ edit ] Official website Wikiversity:Video conferencing Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BigBlueButton&oldid=1360277643 " Categories : Classroom management software Cross-platform software Date-matching software Free groupware Teleconferencing Virtual learning environments Web conferencing WordPress Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links CS1 Italian-language sources (it) Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles with a promotional tone from April 2021 All articles with a promotional tone Use dmy dates from February 2021 This page was last edited on 20 June 2026, at 11:45  (UTC) . Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy . Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. , a non-profit organization. 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