⚙️ Settings
The Settings page lets you override your BigBlueButton server defaults from one place. It opens with a BigBlueButton Server Settings header, a Settings jump to side menu, and a pinned Reset to default / Save bar at the bottom.
Editing settings requires the edit-settings privilege — root and admin accounts always have it.
🧭 The nine sections
Use the Settings jump to menu to move between the nine sections:
| # | Section | What you control |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🤖 Artificial Intelligence | AI transcription & meeting summaries, subtitle language |
| 2 | 📱 Mobile Application | Enable the mobile app + store links |
| 3 | 🌐 Custom Domain Name | Serve meetings from your own domain |
| 4 | 🎛️ Meeting General Settings | Every default applied to new meetings |
| 5 | 🎞️ Recording formats | Which playback formats are produced |
| 6 | 👥 BBB Userdata Custom Settings | Per-user client defaults & whiteboard tools |
| 7 | 🔒 Lock settings | What viewers can do once a meeting starts |
| 8 | 🚫 Disable features | Turn client capabilities off |
| 9 | { } Custom Client Settings | Advanced settings.yml overrides |
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
- Enable meetings recording transcriptions and summarization — turn on AI transcripts and summaries for your recordings. See AI Summary.
- Subtitle Language — choose the language your presentation is translated into in the player.
📱 Mobile Application
- Enable BiggerBlueButton mobile application — let mobile users share their screen through the app.
- Quick links to Explore the app, Google Play, and the App Store. See Bluetune AI.
Changing the mobile-application toggle requires an active subscription.
🌐 Custom Domain Name
- Enable custom domain name — serve your meetings from your own domain.
- Fully Qualified Domain Name field and a Favicon (.ico) upload.
Create a CNAME record from your DNS to ns1.biggerbluebutton.com — the domain is validated live before it's enabled.
🎛️ Meeting General Settings
Defaults applied to every meeting (leave a field blank to use the default):
| Field | What it sets |
|---|---|
| HTML5 Client Title | Name shown in the meeting client |
| Welcome Message | Greeting shown when people join |
| LogoutURL | Where participants go after leaving |
| Max Participants | Cap on users per meeting |
| Default Meeting Duration | Auto-end after N minutes |
| Meeting Layout | Default layout (e.g. Smart layout) |
| Banner Text / Banner Color | In-meeting banner |
| Server Region | Preferred media region |
| Default Language | Client UI language |
| Guest Policy | Always accept · ask moderator · always deny |
| Default Presentation · Logo · Virtual Background | Uploads applied to meetings |
This section also holds two groups:
- ⏳ End when no moderator — a toggle plus moderator-presence delays, camera caps (per user / per meeting), meeting expiry timers, and max pages.
- 🎥 Recording & meeting defaults — checkboxes for the default recording behaviour and in-meeting permissions (record enabled by default, auto-start recording, allow start/stop recording, webcams only for moderators, mute all on start, breakout-room options, AI summary & transcription, and more), plus Unpublish recordings after (days).
🎞️ Recording formats
Choose which playback formats each recording produces — Presentation, Video, and Podcast. At least one format must stay enabled.
👥 BBB Userdata Custom Settings
Per-user client defaults pushed to every meeting:
- Audio / video / layout preferences — listen-only mode, enable video, record webcam, show participants and public chat on login, prefer dark theme, hide bars/notifications, and many more.
- Preferred Camera Profile — default webcam quality (default hd).
- BBB HTML5 Theme and a custom style URL.
- Presenter Tools and Multi User Tools — pick which whiteboard tools (select, draw, shapes, text, laser…) are available.
🔒 Lock settings
Restrict what viewers can do once a meeting starts — disable webcams, microphones, private chat, public chat, or shared notes; hide the user list; apply lock settings on join; let moderators toggle lock-on-join; and hide viewers' cursors or annotations.
🚫 Disable features
Turn off client capabilities you don't want available — for example breakout rooms, captions, chat, presentation downloads, external videos, layouts, learning dashboard, polls, screenshare, shared notes, virtual backgrounds, live transcription, timer, and more.
{ } Custom Client Settings
Advanced overrides written to settings.yml, grouped under Public and Private, with a live Formatted JSON Preview so you can review your changes before saving.
When you're done, use the pinned Save bar at the bottom of the page — or Reset to default to roll everything back.