There has never been a time when learning has been as dynamic and accessible as we have it now. Learning can now be achieved in many ways, at any time and any place. The reason is not far-fetched. The rapid advancement in technology, coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic, creates a new normal in almost every aspect of man's endeavors, and learning is not left out. Educational institutions and businesses now carry out some of their activities online.

El advenimiento de la tecnología ahora significa que la adquisición de habilidades ya no está restringida a lugares in situ o físicos. El aprendizaje ahora se lleva a cabo en línea. Tanto las instituciones educativas como las empresas ahora realizan sus conferencias y capacitación en línea, lo que es posible gracias al Sistema de Gestión del Aprendizaje (LMS).

Sometimes developers have questions about how they can get their meeting started and ended time in their timezone. BigBlueButton track of meeting start time by creating a metadata record when you first start meeting in BigBlueButton server. When the meeting is finished, it keeps a metadata record of ended time. You can retrieve this information at any point during the meeting running by using either the getMeetings or getMeetingInfo API calls. Use createTime or createDate, depending on what you're looking for - createDate has a timezone with it while createTime is in milliseconds.

The user always gets confused about the correct written format name of BigBlueButton, which is not so critical for the user to use the bigbluebutton service. But, to clear your curiosity, we have written this article to let you know the correct format. And also, why is it named bigbluebutton? 

To ease the work of our reseller partners, we have developed the MynaParrot reseller plugin to integrate our reseller system with WordPress. With this plugin, you can do the following.

• Create a subscription package plan and link the package with MynaParrot reseller resources. 
• Users can check BigBlueButton API information at the WordPress user panel and can do a single sign-on to the MynaParot reseller system for further resources management. 

When people talk about BigBlueButton, most of them are developers, IT managers, or school admins. For the students or even teachers, most of them don´t know or don´t aware BigBlueButton since they are joining a classroom with LMS or maybe with a URL link, but usually, those links are the domain name URL of the organizations. They are not displaying any information about BigBlueButton.

In this article, we are going to categorize the way of joining a BigBlueButton meeting. If you are very new to BigBlueButton, it is good for you to understand how BigBlueButton works at the user-end

Necessity really is the mother of invention. This exactly holds true when BigBluebutton was first launched and went on being the best web conferencing system approved by the European Commission for helping millions of people learn online.

In MynaParrot BigBlueButton service you'll be able to display external content inside your room. Sometimes clients want their students/attendees participate in a quiz or HTML5 games, which is the part of their online training. Using our new remote content loading feature will allow you to load external contents/URLs inside the BigBlueButton room. This feature will work in breakout rooms as well.

¿Qué es BigBlueButton?

Si está buscando en Google, encontrará que la definición oficial es BigBlueButton  es un sistema de conferencias web completamente de código abierto y fue creado por una comunidad de desarrolladores dedicados apasionados por ayudar a mejorar el aprendizaje en línea. Por lo tanto, BigBlueButton es  de código abierto  + sistema de conferencia web  + dedicado para el aprendizaje en línea. Usted es libre de utilizar este excelente software para su solución de conferencia web en línea. Como tendrás tu control total sobre él, la privacidad de tus usuarios nunca se filtrará. Debido al código fuente abierto, puede personalizar fácilmente sus características cambiando su código. Usando nuestro servicio, puede prepararse para usar  BigBlueButton  en un minuto, que incluirá el intercambio en tiempo real de audio, video, presentación y pantalla, junto con herramientas de colaboración como pizarra, notas compartidas, sondeos, salas de descanso y mucho más. Tenemos funciones extendidas como grabaciones MP4, transmisión rtmp en vivo a Facebook o YouTube, generación de informes de actividad, equilibrio de carga y así sucesivamente. Nos encargaremos de alojamiento, mantenimiento, técnica y todo para que puedas enfocarte en tus profesores y estudiantes.

¿Qué piensa MynaParrot sobre BigBlueButton?

MynaParrot como proveedor de alojamiento premium de BigBlueButton,  estamos brindando servicio a más de 100K de usuarios de BigBlueButton cada mes, y nuestra comprensión de BigBlueButton es:

BigBlueButton es un plugin de Learning Management System (LMS) para aulas de vídeo online.

BigBlueButton Version 2.3 was released on 30.4.2021.

According to the official Github release notes, This is the first 'stable' release of 2.3, the culmination of ~20 months of development, 2150 commits, 8 alpha, 5 beta, and 2 release candidates.

En este artículo voy a mostrar un procedimiento para actualizar BigBlueButton  2.2 a 2.3. BigBlueButton 2.2 está usando Ubuntu 16.04 LTS pero BigBlueButton 2.3 necesita Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Los desarrolladores de BigBlueButton  recomiendan instalar BigBlueButton 2.3 en un servidor Ubuntu 18.04 limpio, pero vamos a actualizar Ubuntu 16.04 a 18.04 siguiendo estos pasos. Esto ahorrará  tiempo  para transferir grabaciones de un servidor a otro servidor. Por favor, tenga en cuenta que debe tomar la copia de seguridad adecuada antes de comenzar. Compruebe algunas de las emocionantes  características de BigBlueButton 2.3. 

In this article, I'll show you how to connect/join with BigBlueButton using PHP. I'm going to use the bigbluebutton-api-php library in this case. This library is very simple to use and has excellent support.

1) The first step is to install the bigbluebutton-api-php library. You must have composer installed on your system. Now, in your local development environment, create a directory and navigate to it using terminal or cmd to run:

composer require littleredbutton/bigbluebutton-api-php

This will install bigbluebutton-api-php along with all necessary packages. If you do not want to use composer, you can download the most recent library as a zip file from our MynaParrot github repo. After downloading, unzip the file and place it in a directory. At that point, you'll need to modify the include path to match your file structure.

BigBlueButton is working on version 2.3 development. The development version is released for all developers to test and give feedback. What can we expect from the newly added features of BigBlueButton version 2.3? According to the document, many exciting features have been added. They can dramatically improve the online classroom quality and user experience.

Moodle is a free Open Source learning management system software package designed to help educators create effective online courses. The plugins play a significant role in the Moodle community. It can enrich the Moodle features and also getting more developers or companies involved in the Moodle community. Let us have an overview of the top 3 plugins for moodle based on administration purpose categories.

What is Live Captioning?

When we refer to live captioning, it means that it can automatically transcribe closed captions that appear on the screen as people talk.

Additionally known as subtitles, live subtitles, closed captions, and automated video captions.

Before we begin, ensure that users are using BigBlueButton-compatible browsers. BigBlueButton is browser-based software, so you must use the appropriate browser to get the best performance.
- Desktop/Laptop: Chrome, Firefox, or Edge (latest versions) 
- Mobile iOS (12.2+): Safari Mobile 
- Mobile Android (6.0+): Chrome Mobile 

If this is your first time using BigBlueButton, please have all users arrive 10-15 minutes early so that you can do testing and troubleshooting. It will be extremely beneficial and less stressful. Here are some examples of common problems, along with possible solutions. Most of the time, it will work and assist you in resolving the issue.

Is BigBlueButton free to use? What is the minimum bandwidth requirement for a BigBlueButton user? Is 1080P video supported by BigBlueButton? If you're looking into the BigBlueButton solution, you might have some similar questions. We've compiled a list of 17 frequently asked BigBlueButton questions. Hopefully, you'll find it useful and convenient to find the answer.

Broadcasting Your Online Class To YouTube. Easy, Quik, Unlimited.

Let me show you how easily to stream your online class to YouTube in less than 1 minute.

In a BigBlueButton Session.
Do you want to know when the user joined and when the user left?
Do you want to know if a particular user has talked during the session or not? If yes, then how many times or how long did he speak?

With the MynaParrot BigBlueButton analytic report, you can get all of those concerned covered.

Let me show you how it works.

Thanks for choosing MynaParrot as your BigBlueButton Service provider. Here is a user guide for you to start using our service.

Briefly, in this video, you will find the following content.

1. Active BigBlueButton Server in your LMS.
2. Use MynaParrot Meeting System.
3. Monitoring Board
4. Recordings Management
5. Configure User limits
6. Customer Support