BigBlueButton (BBB) is an open source software for video conferencing that allows you to perform your online appointments and conferences compliant with data protection. The surface offers Live chat, screen release, presentations, video, whiteboard, surveys and group rooms. One Telephone dialling is possible and about API BBB Learning software and other systems are connected.
BBB has been developed for use in schools and universities, and is nevertheless very popular in many organisations and administrations.
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We offer the digitally sovereign and data protection-compliant operation of BigBlueButton.
Please contact us and we will provide you with your own BBB server or a whole cluster where your conferences and your data are operated independently and protected from third parties.
The software is suitable for data protection-compliant use in
- Organisations (training, committee meetings)
- Holdings (Team meetings, training)
- Administrations (Gremien sessions, training)
- Schools (Digital teaching)
- Institutions (Virtual Seminar / Lecture)
For use is no separate software necessary, the conference is simply started with a link - whether at Monitor, Tablet or Mobile phones. The election Telephone is optionally possible.
The Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationssicherheit has examined our BBB offer, read here Review (PDF).
Packages and costs
We offer packages of different sizes, from the cost-effective share solution to the server cluster (depending on the package, one-time setup costs are incurred).
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A. Share package
You will receive an exclusive account on our powerful share cluster and can perform your online conferences immediately after ordering.
Benefits:
- Greenlight user interface
- No limitation in rooms
- No limit for participants
- Personal support
- incl. TURN server
Cost per month EUR 29,00 plus VAT (monthly payable)).
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B. Exclusive server
You will receive an exclusive, turnkey configured dedicated server in Germany. The system is set up under your desired domain, individualized for you and configured for your requirements.
Services such as package A and in addition:
- Unlimited admin and user accesses
- Access to user administration
- Server performance is exclusively available
- Individual URL
- Individual configuration of the server and the surface
- Access to the API / connection to learning software
- Telephone dialing optionally possible
Costs per month, depending on server size from EUR 120,00 plus VAT (available at the end of the following month)
Use the request form or contact today Team@werk21.de and we will create an offer package tailored to your needs! Of course, we will also be happy to advise you free of charge and without obligation in selecting the appropriate tools.
FAQ
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- Organisations (training, committee meetings)
- Administrations (Gremien meetings, training)
- Holdings (Team meetings, training)
- Schools (Digital teaching)
- Institutions (Virtual Seminar / Lecture)
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For use, no separate software is necessary, the conference is simply started with a link - whether monitor, tablet or mobile phone.
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With all popular browsers:
- Desktop: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox ESR, Google Chrome, Micrsoft Edge (ab Chromium) in the current version
- iPhone / iPad: Safari Mobile Browser (operating system standard) from iOS 12.2 (no active screen sharing supported)
- Android: Standard Chrome Browser (operating system standard) from Android 6.0
- To test: test.bigbluebutton.org
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- Audio, film, video and desktop, also with soundtrack
- Various backgrounds
- Record video conferences such as lectures
- Editing presentations/documents in real time
- Common chat
- Shared notes
- Functions: Tuning / Survey function, Fixing, Set status icons / Emojis
- Breakout Rooms for Group Work
- "Learning Dashboard" with evaluation of the engagement of participants (deactivated for data protection reasons)
- Surface barrier-free according to WCAG 2.0 AA
- Synchron subtitle function (depending on browser options)
- Optional telephone dialing possible
- Apply many conference rooms and configure them for the respective request
- Apply many users (not in the share package)
- Direct integration in Moodle and other learning software (not in the Share package)
- Connection to learning systems with LTI API possible (not in the share package)
- Authentication also possible to LDAP, Google, Microsoft and other services (not in the share package)
- Free use of a TURN server provided by us (if you work behind a firewall for example)
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werk21 operates BBB on servers in Germany according to the recommendations of the Berlin Commissioners for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. See also Recommendations of the Data Protection Officers of Berlin.
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You can set a room so that a previously specified PIN must be entered to enter. You can also set that you must confirm each new user before entering the room.
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Yes, BigBlueButton has a German translation. We use an adapted translation for our BBB systems (compliant language and unified vocabulary).