# BigBlueButton video conference

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigbluebutton-video-conference/148050>\
**Category:** Plugin\
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**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigbluebutton-video-conference/148050 "2020-04-15T02:21:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![core](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/core/32/183957_2.png) [@core](https://meta.discourse.org/u/core)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigbluebutton-video-conference/148050/5 "2020-05-27T22:21:33Z")

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Thanks a lot of working on this. I’ve tested and it works great.

But I bring you here some suggestions for making it simpler to use. I am assuming the use-case where a staff member of the forum it not very familiar with the internals of BigBlueButton and the only previous experience he/she has is by using BigBlueButton’s interface for creating rooms (greenlight).

With that said, here are by suggestions:

1. **Explain in original post how one creates “Start conference” buttons**  
After installing it took me quite a while to figure that to add a BigBlueButton button I needed to do it though the “options” (gear icon) in the text editor. Maybe mentioning that in the instructions could avoid some confuction.

2. **Make passwords easier to create**

3. **consider hiding the passwords options under “advanced”**  
I guess these options can even be hidden as most people will probably just want to create a room from within discourse and not connect it to a room created with another application

4. **not mentioning technical jargon**

- I know discourse always mentions iframe, but an average user does what that is, if the label was changed to “Show inside post” instead, it would make it more clear.
- Meeting ID is the jargon of BigBlueButton. For most users, I guess “meeting name” would be better. And perhaps adding bellow a greyed out instruction explaining that is the “meeting ID”

The image bellow has some of the “features” explained bellow. (It’s just a mockup with no functionality)

 ![bbb-discourse](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/b/0ba1fe479b35e0124199063fa7e8e6ebe20a3db5.png)

But again, It’s already a very nice-to-have plugin especially for people working on education. So thanks again!

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