BigBlueButton is another virtual classroom solution. BigBlueButton also uses Flash to load the classroom just like Adobe Connect. BigBlueButton is a new product and has features similar to Adobe Connect including the provision of screen sharing, whiteboard, presentation upload, text chat, audio chat, web cam, and some classroom tools. BigBlueButton is built by combining over fourteen open source components to make an integrated solution that runs on Mac, Unix, or Windows computers.

You will find full information about this product on the http://www.bigbluebutton.org website. There is a lot of good information on the website, and it provides detailed information on the various components that make up the product and a product feature overview. BigBlueButton has been integrated into a range of open source platforms including Joomla, Wordpress, and Moodle.

You can get the latest version of the BigBlueButton code itself. You can go to the BigBlueButton Google Code page which includes information on installing the platform into virtual machines, Ubuntu, and Debian.

To get the integration code for Moodle, you can either download from the Moodle community website plugin database at http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=4536 or get it yourself from the BigBlueButton Github account at https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/bigbluebutton-integrations.

For more information on the integration, check out the Blindside Networks site: http://blindsidenetworks.com/integration.