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BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for online learning. The goal of the project is to enable course providers to effectively engage remote students anywhere in the world. The project extends many of its core features to focus on enabling the tutors to engage with learners which among other uses cases cover: Full online classes/courses, Flipped classroom, Group Collaboration and Tutoring/virtual office hours.

BigBlueButton supports real-time sharing of slides (including whiteboard), audio, video, chat, emojis, breakout rooms, and screen. It also record all content for later playback.

Like ILIAS, BigBlueButton is open source. The BigBlueButton project was started in 2008 by Blindside Networks.

The BigBlueButton ILIAS plugin enables you to:

• Create links to online sessions within any ILIAS Repository Object
• Restrict participants from joining a session until a moderator joins the session
• Launch BigBlueButton in a separate window
• Create a custom welcome message that appears at the top of the chat window when joining the session
• Record a session
• Access and manage recording
• Limit the maximum number of partcipants
• Download MP4 videos(see Page "Downloads")
• Join meetings over a dial number
• Join sessions as a guest