Getting Started with Personal Rooms

Personal Rooms is a front end that lets your instructors use BigBlueButton outside your institution’s Learning Management System (LMS). This article covers what Personal Rooms does, what we need from you, how to request it, and what to set up next.

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What Personal Rooms does

Personal Rooms gives instructors what they need to run and manage BigBlueButton sessions on their own:

• Sign up and sign in with Office 365 or Google.
• Manage account settings and user preferences.
• Create and manage their own personal rooms.
• Let users wait for a room to start, then join automatically when it does.
• Invite others to a room with a simple URL.
• View recordings and share them with others.

To see how it works, try Personal Rooms at my.bigbluebutton.com.

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What we need from you

To set up a Personal Rooms instance, we configure an authentication method for your account. Personal Rooms supports:

• Google OAuth2
• Office 365 OAuth2
• SAML
• In Application Authorization

Choose the method your institution uses, then send a request to support@blindsidenetworks.com with:

1. The parameters that method requires — see the linked page for details.
2. The name and email address of the person at your organization to set up as your Personal Rooms administrator.

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Request Personal Rooms

If you are not a hosted customer of Blindside Networks and would like to use Personal Rooms, contact your account manager or email team@blindsidenetworks.com.

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Next steps

Once your instance is set up, configure it from the Administrator Panel:

• Access the Administrator Panel — find the Manage Users, Server Recordings, Site Settings, and Roles menus.
• Manage users — view, search, edit, and ban user accounts.
• Site settings — set branding, registration methods, and default recording visibility.
• Manage recordings — view, rename, and delete recordings across your instance.