Bigbluebutton-strapi NPM

BigBlueButton plugin for Strapi

BigBlueButton is like-Zoom for online classes but at a much lower cost, with better analytics, and is open-source.

Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript, fully customizable and developer-first.

The BigBlueButton-Strapi plugin enables you to integrate BigBlueButton into Strapi.

✨ Features

BigBlueButton offers you everything you need for your online classes: HD audio/video conference, whiteboard, chat, slides, polling, raise hand and breakout rooms. Specifically,

HD Video Start online classes with HD video conferencing, public and private chat, whiteboard, poll, presentation and screen-sharing
Analytics Get analytics including attendance, time used for audio and video chat by students, chat messages sent, activity score
Engagement Tools Various tools to engage students including Raise hand, Emoji, Shared notes, Breakout rooms, Recording, and annotation
Branding Build and promote your online classes with your brand, url, logo and theme
Data Privacy Get complete control of your students’ data, without ever sharing with any 3rd party
Scale with ease Use open-source load balancer with multiple BigBlueButton servers to teach 1000s of students simultaneously

🖐 Requirements

The requireemnts to install the BigBlueButton-Strapi plugin is same as those to install Strapi.

Please refer to the official Strapi installation requirement doc here: Installation Requirements.

Minimum environment requirements

Node.js >=14.x.x
NPM >=6.x.x

We are following the official Node.js releases timelines.

Supported Strapi versions:

Strapi v4.1.12 (recently tested)
Strapi v4.x

The BigBlueButton-Strapi plugin is designed for Strapi v4.x. It won't work with Strapi v3.x.

⏳ Installation

Use npm to install this plugin within your Strapi project (recommended).

Refer to this doc to install npm

npm i bigbluebutton-strapi

After successful installation you would need to build a fresh package that includes the BigBlueButton-Strapi plugin UI. Please execute the commands below:

# with npm (option 1)
$ npm run build
$ npm run develop

# with npx (option 2)
$ npx strapi  build
$ npx strapi  develop

The BigBlueButton-Strapi plugin should appear in the Plugins section of Strapi sidebar after you run app again.

Now you are ready to launch your onlie classes 🎉

🔧 Configuration

You can replace the default BigBlueButton URL and Secret with your own server details.

Click on Configure Your BigBlueButton URL and Secret.
On the configuration page, you can test with the default BigBlueButton URL and Secret. Later on, you can provide your own server details.
Click on the Save button to verify the server connection and save it.

In case you don't have a BigBlueButton server, you can create a free trial account here.