Category: Moodle

Minerva’s Virtual Academy Success Story

Minerva’s Virtual Academy (MVA), an award-winning online school serving 850 students from grades 7 to 13, has turned to BigBlueButton to enhance its virtual learning environment. Many of MVA’s students, including high-performing athletes, have found traditional education challenging. The school sought a solution that would offer both teachers and students a superior online classroom experience. […]

Success Story: Activate Learning Empowers Learners with BigBlueButton

Activate Learning is a progressive and global education group, committed to transforming lives through an innovative approach based on three key elements: a deep understanding of neuroscience and how the brain learns, a methodology of continually fostering positive emotions around learning itself, and a delivery method that emphasizes relevance and impact of newly learned skills […]

MoodleMoot Global 2023 Recap

Since its first line of code for the BigBlueButton plugin was written February 10, 2010, BigBlueButton has been an integral tool inside of Moodle for over 13 years. Throughout this time, we have continuously improved and refined our collaboration with Moodle Head Quarters (Moodle HQ), resulting in an incredible partnership with one of the world’s […]

Blindside Networks’ Integration For BigBlueButton Moves Into Moodle 4.0 Core

BigBlueButton Becomes Fully Integrated Into Moodle 4.0 Moode HQ, the developers of the World’s most popular LMS, have released Moodle 4.0, an upgrade that significantly enhances and streamlines the user experience for teachers and students. Moodle 4.0 extends Moodle’s support for virtual classrooms by incorporating the integration for BigBlueButton into the core.   According to Moodle […]

High praise for BigBlueButtonBN Plugin for Moodle

LMSPulse recently selected the top 10 plugins for Moodle in 2020. When selecting BigBlueButtonBN, they stated Perhaps the biggest Open Technology of 2020, the Blindside Networks team’s creation might have saved the school year at countless schools and for thousands —millions?— of students at no cost to their privacy. High praise indeed!  We’ve worked on […]

BigBlueButtonBN 2.2.2

Blindside Networks is pleased to announce the release of BigBlueButtonBN version 2.2.2, the BigBlueButton plugin for Moodle.  This latest version fixes a number of minor bugs reported by our community. The BigBlueButtonBN plugin is heavily used by the Moodle Community.  Moodle.org shows over 5,400 Moodle sites running the plugin shows it ranked #6 in overall downloads (from a […]

MoodleCloud expands the number of users for BigBlueButton

MoodleCloud announced they now offer subscription-based pricing for BigBlueButton that gives instructors the ability to hold larger synchronous online classes. In July 2015 Moodle HQ launched MoodleCloud, and, now fourteen months later, MoodleCloud hosts thousands of education sites for instructors around the world.   The launch included a free usage of BigBlueButton for up-to six (6) […]

BigBlueButtonBN Moodle Plugin ranked #9

Blindside Networks has developed and supported the BigBlueButtonBN plugin for Moodle for over five years now. The BigBlueButtonBN plugin is about giving instructors a simple (yet powerful) way to integrate BigBlueButton into their courses. We recently saw it was ranked #9 in overall downloads for all Moodle plugins! We’ve recently added features such supporting custom […]

BigBlueButton integration with Moodle has been updated

We are pleased to announce the new version of the BigBlueButton integration with Moodle. The plugin BigBlueButtonBN version 2.0.0-b1 is for the moment available only in GitHub and can be downloaded from here. As soon as we move it to the next stage in our development process it will be released to the Moodle Plugin […]