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Record and Playback BigBlueButton 0.8 (coming soon) can record you lectures (slides + audio + chat) for later playback by students. Whiteboard Whiteboard controls let you to annotate and call out key parts of your presentation for viewers. Desktop Sharing Go beyond slides. The presenter can broadcast their desktop for all students to see. Works on mac, Unix, and PC. Integrated VoIP BigBlueButton voice conferencing supports voice over IP (VOIP) conferencing out-of-the-box. All your students need are speakers and a microphone to participate. Presentation The presenter can upload any PDF presentation, office document and keep everyone in sync with their current page, zoom, pan, and see the presenters mouse pointer. Web Cam Multiple users can share their webcam at the same time. There is no built-in limit on the number of simultaneously active webcams.

What is BigBlueButton ? BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system built on over fourteen open source components to create an integrated solution that runs on mac, unix, or PC computers. In the true sense of open source, we invite you to try out and participate in our project.

Architecture Overview

Architecture OverviewThe following diagram shows the major pieces of the BigBlueButton architecture. BigBlueButton Red5 AppsWe think Red5 rocks, and we use it as the core server for handling all the real-time interaction with the client. BigBlueButton ClientWe've written the real-time client in Flash. Since Flash 10, Flash is now available on Mac, Unix, and PCs, and it provides the interface for collaboration with other users. Joining a Voice ConferenceThe following diagram shows the steps that occur when a new client joins a voice conference. Uploading a PresentationThe following diagram shows the steps that occur when a presenter uploads a presentation to the server. Desktop SharingThe diagram bellow shows the main components of our screen sharing solution.

Integrated VOIP (red5 Phone)The diagram bellow shows the main components of our integrated VOIP(red5 Phone) solution. ©

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API   BigBlueButton Third-Party Integration API. Updated Mar 26, 2012 by mcmarkos86 OverviewAPI Changes in ReleasesVersion 0.64Version 0.7Version 0.8Version Master BranchAPI Security ModelConfigurationUsageError handlingAPI ResourcesAdministrationMonitoringRecordingAPI CallsStandard parameters and responsesCreate MeetingPreupload SlidesJoin MeetingIs Meeting RunningEnd MeetingGet Meeting InfoGet MeetingsGet RecordingsPublish RecordingsDelete RecordingsAPI Sample CodeOverviewLanguage codeJSPPHPRubyJavascriptAPI Testing ToolsBBB API BuddyChrome extensionDesired Future FeaturesSupport for JSON/JSONPMeeting event callbacks OverviewThis document outlines the API that is available for integrating BigBlueButton with other applications. The changes between releases will be described in the document. Features which are not currently implemented will be clearly marked as such. The API is implemented with the end-user in mind. To call the API, you simply make an HTTP request to a URL with the query parameters supplying the information needed for the call. The API returns an XML response. The current API implementation lies on the bigbluebutton-web component, which has been written using the Grails framework.

BigBlueButton Main Interface