It is accessed through Learning Management Systems, providing engagement tools and analytics which enable educators to interact with their students remotely.

[4] The first version, initially referred to as the Blindside project, was written by Richard Alam under the supervision of Tony Bailetti.

[6] The BigBlueButton name derives from the idea that starting a web conference should be as simple as "pressing a (metaphorical) big blue button".

[7] In 2009, Richard Alam, Denis Zgonjanin, and Fred Dixon uploaded the BigBlueButton source code to Google Code and formed Blindside Networks, a company pursuing the traditional open source business model of providing paid support and services to the BigBlueButton community.

[23] In March 2020, BigBlueButton 2.2 was awarded by the President of the ENTD,[24] Pasquale Aiello, as the best web conferencing system and used in the project UNIOPEN,[25] approved by the European Commission for Digital Skills and Job Coalition[26] action plan.