Overview - BigBlueButton

Blindside Networks is the creators of BigBlueButton. We fund the major development of BigBlueButton, manage each of the releases, and support the open source project. For educational organizations looking for commical hosting of BigBlueButton, we provide an enhaned version as SaaS offering. You’ll also find BigBlueButton Enhanced embedded into Canvas, Schoology, and Moodle Cloud.

Canvas

There are two versions

Essentials: the essential capabilities to use BigBlueButton with limitations (see table below)
Enhanced: Our Enhanced version many value added capabilities to ensure you have the highest learning outcomes.

The table below summarizes the differences.

Feature	Essentials	Enhanced
Max simultaneous virtual classes	5	Purchased
Students can see each other’s webcams in a session	-	Yes
How long do recordings last?	7 days	Permanent
Recordings are downloadable as video files	-	Yes
Recording links are sharable	-	Configurable
Ability for teacher to invite a guest into a session	-	Yes
Automatically share recordings with Canvas Studio	-	Yes
Analytics from session available later in recordings	-	Yes
Enterprise Learning Analytics Dashboard (ELAD) available, as upgrade, for insight across all your virtual classes.	-	Yes
Custom defaults (*)	-	Yes

(*) See Account customization for the full list of configurable defaults. For a detailed walk-through of each Enhanced feature, see the Overview of BigBlueButton Enhanced.

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Canvas