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BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for on-line learning. BigBlueButton enables you to share documents (PDF and any office document),webcams, chat, audio and your desktop. It can also record sessions for later playback.

What are the minimum requirements for the BigBlueButton client?

The recommended browser is Mozilla Firefox which can be downloaded here.

Users need a web browser capable of running the latest version of Flash. To check the version of flash, visit Adobe's Flash Version Check page.

As of Mac OS X 10.6, Apple stopped updating Flash. If a Mac user is running an out-of-date version of Flash (BigBlueButton will check the version of flash), they can upgrade by visiting the get Flash player page at Adobe.

To run the desktop sharing, the presenter (and only the presenter) needs to have a Java runtime. You can test that Java is installed by visiting Java Test Page (there are download links on this page if you need to install Java).

For bandwidth, we recommend 1Mbits download and 0.5 Mbits upload speed. Users can test their actual bandwidth using speedtest.net.

For hardware, we recommend a Dual-core CPU with at least 2G of memory. For Mac, we recommend any Mac running Mac OS X operating system.

How do I use BigBlueButton?

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