Cloud A1 Meetings for BigBlueButton

Description

Cloud A1 Meetings for BigBlueButton integrates WordPress with a compatible BigBlueButton server.

Administrators can configure meetings, assign moderators, provide participant access, manage recordings, and verify the server connection without leaving WordPress. Existing WordPress roles, including roles created by LMS plugins, can be authorized to moderate assigned meetings.

Features

• Connect to any compatible BigBlueButton server.
• Validate the server endpoint and API credentials before saving.
• Encrypt the API Secret using the WordPress authentication salt and libsodium.
• Create and manage BBB meetings from WordPress.
• Configure duration, participant limits, guest access, recording, audio, branding, welcome messages, and exit URLs.
• Assign one or more WordPress users as meeting moderators.
• Allow selected WordPress roles, such as teachers or LMS instructors, to moderate assigned meetings.
• Start, join, check, and securely end meetings.
• Add a responsive participant access form with the [bbb_connect] shortcode.
• Protect participant access with an optional password and rate limiting.
• Require moderator approval through the BigBlueButton waiting room.
• View recordings with date, duration, participant count, state, and available playback formats.
• Copy recording playback links.
• Paginate recording lists.
• Permanently delete recordings with authorization, confirmation, and an administrative audit history.
• Check the live connection through WordPress Site Health.
• Copy safe diagnostic information without exposing API secrets, passwords, checksums, or private endpoint paths.
• Translate the plugin into additional languages through the WordPress translation community.

Cloud A1 Meetings for BigBlueButton requires access to a BigBlueButton server with its API URL and shared secret. The plugin does not include or host a BigBlueButton server.

External services

Cloud A1 Meetings for BigBlueButton communicates with the BigBlueButton server explicitly configured by the WordPress administrator. The server may be self-hosted or operated by a third-party provider.

Depending on the requested operation, the plugin may transmit:

• The meeting identifier, meeting name, duration, participant limits, recording preferences, welcome messages, branding options, and other meeting configuration.
• A participant or moderator display name and a WordPress-derived user identifier when generating access to a meeting.
• Generated meeting access passwords, creation time, and API checksums required by the BigBlueButton API.
• Meeting and recording identifiers when checking status, listing recordings, or deleting a recording.

The shared API Secret is not transmitted as plain text. It is used locally to generate the checksums required by the BigBlueButton API.

Communication occurs when an administrator saves or tests the connection, a permitted user performs a meeting or recording action, a participant requests access, or WordPress runs the Cloud A1 Meetings for BigBlueButton Site Health test.

Data handling, retention, privacy terms, and recording policies are determined by the configured BigBlueButton server and its operator. Site administrators are responsible for reviewing the terms and privacy policy of their chosen provider and informing their users as required.

BigBlueButton API documentation:
https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/development/api/

Cloud A1 Meetings for BigBlueButton does not contact BBB Cloud A1 automatically. The administrator settings contain an optional contextual link to its website:
https://bbb.cloud-a1.com/en/

Privacy

Cloud A1 Meetings for BigBlueButton does not send telemetry to the plugin author.

The plugin stores encrypted connection credentials in WordPress options. Meeting configuration and moderator assignments are stored as WordPress metadata.

Recording deletion audit entries may contain the WordPress user ID and display name, meeting information, recording identifier, timestamp, result, and diagnostic code. Up to 500 deletion events are retained.

Participant names and access passwords submitted through the public form are processed to generate access to the configured BigBlueButton server. They are not included in Cloud A1 Meetings for BigBlueButton diagnostic information.

Compatibility

Cloud A1 Meetings for BigBlueButton uses standard WordPress shortcodes, roles, capabilities, metadata, HTTP functions, and Site Health APIs. It is designed to work with themes, page builders, and LMS plugins that process WordPress shortcodes and preserve standard WordPress user capabilities.

Languages

Cloud A1 Meetings for BigBlueButton is translation-ready and uses the cloud-a1-meetings-for-bigbluebutton text domain.

The source strings are in English. Community translations can be contributed and managed through the official WordPress.org translation platform. Translation files are not bundled with the plugin.

Trademarks

BigBlueButton is a trademark of Blindside Networks Inc. Cloud A1 Meetings for BigBlueButton is an independent integration and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blindside Networks Inc.

WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation.