Moodle in English

Hi Myels,

We were planning on doing this (you responding too quickly .

We've made the source available for the moodle19 and moodle20 activity modules at our GitHub account.

https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/bigbluebutton-integrations

> Keep up the good work - really hope you can get the recording features of this live soon!

We've been working on it for months.  It's a tough nut to crack, but we know if we do it right, then everyone will benefit.  You can see the road map for BigBlueButton here:

http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/RoadMap

If you want to help out, then spread the word about this integration.  We provide commerical support for BigBlueButton to universities and colleges, and the revenues from those support contracts go directly into the core development of features such as record and playback.

Regards,... Fred

I downloaded and installed the Moodle Blindside Networks 2.x Plugin but am getting errors after creating a link and clicking link.  I am using Moodle 2.0.2 Build 20110221.  Install was ok, problem is when executing from link.  Am running BBB 0.71 on dedicated Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server.

Errors are: (Please help)

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 6: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: hr line 5 and body in /web/moodle/mod/bigbluebutton/bbb_api/bbb_api.php on line 42

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: </body> in /web/moodle/mod/bigbluebutton/bbb_api/bbb_api.php on line 42

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in /web/moodle/mod/bigbluebutton/bbb_api/bbb_api.php on line 42

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 7: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: body line 3 and html in /web/moodle/mod/bigbluebutton/bbb_api/bbb_api.php on line 42

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: </html> in /web/moodle/mod/bigbluebutton/bbb_api/bbb_api.php on line 42

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in /web/moodle/mod/bigbluebutton/bbb_api/bbb_api.php on line 42

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 8: parser error : Premature end of data in tag html line 1 in /web/moodle/mod/bigbluebutton/bbb_api/bbb_api.php on line 42

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: in /web/moodle/mod/bigbluebutton/bbb_api/bbb_api.php on line 42

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in /web/moodle/mod/bigbluebutton/bbb_api/bbb_api.php on line 42

Now able to answer my own question - <a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182052#p792480">this discussion</a> reveals that there are currently two BigBlueButton plugins with the same name, one by BlindSide and one by DualCode. Hence my above confusion over settings.

Hi Mohammad,

You should be able to change the URL and security salt to point to your own BigBlueButton server.  

Login as administrator and edit the settings for the activity module.

To setup your own BigBlueButton server, see http://bigbluebutton.org/

Regards,... Fred

Hi umesh,

Yes, the language files for the module only include English at the moment.  If you copy

    <moodle_install_dir>/lang/en_utf8/bigbluebutton.php

to the directory corresponding to your language

  <moodle_install_dir>/lang/XX/bigbluebutton.php

And add the translations, you should see properly translated strings.

BigBlueButton can be freely used at educational institutions.  It's licensed under the LGPL license.  You are free to download and setup your own server.  The insructions for setup are here:

   http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/InstallationUbuntu

Regards,... Fred

Blindside Networks

And the problem is back. No guests can enter, but when they try to log in they are told they need to log in with an authenticated account. If they are able to see the option to join they are told they're waiting for a moderator to join, etc. All the same stuff I wrote above.

Any suggestions?

Hi Sarai,

Hmmm...  there are two ways the plugin should work

(1) If you use the default values, it shoudl work out-of-the-box with the test-install server.

or

(2) If you setup your own BigBlueButton server, you should be able to login to the server at the terminal and type

   bbb-conf --salt

to get the URL and salt for your BigBlueButton server.  If you enter these values into the Moodle integration, it should work.

Can try (1) again and let us know if the default values work.  I just tested them and the worked for me.

Regards,... Fred

http://bigbluebutton.org/

P.S.  Can you also install the updated version of the plugin for Moodle 2.0/2.1.  See http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=166528

Hi Paola,

We've just updated test-install.bigbluebutton.org.  It should now work with the Moodle 1.9 plugin.

Also, we've added dialog box to enalbe the user to check that their audio and microphone are working correctly before joining the voice conference.  You'll see it when you click the headset icon.

Here's a diagram of the workflow:

This should help users makes sure their audio is coming through their headset (to avoid echo) and the currently selected microphone is active.

The strings in the dialog box are currently english, but we'll have them localized in the next update to 0.8-beta.

Regards,... Fred

BigBlueButton Developer

Hi Séverin Terrier,

Thanks for your contribution. I am attaching a new php that includes some strings that are not included in the current version.

This is because we are working on making some changes in order to have support for Moodle groups. So, some new messages will need to be translated as well.

It would be awsome if we can count with your help to include the french language as part of the new distribution that will be released very soon.

bigbluebuttonbn.php

some more information when debugging is ON:

Unable to connect. Please check the url of the BigBlueButton server AND check to see if the BigBlueButton server is running.

More information about this error

Stack trace:
•line 429 of /lib/setuplib.php: moodle_exception thrown
•line 31 of /mod/bigbluebuttonbn/mod_form.php: call to print_error()
•line 154 of /lib/formslib.php: call to mod_bigbluebuttonbn_mod_form->definition()
•line 71 of /course/moodleform_mod.php: call to moodleform->moodleform()
•line 219 of /course/modedit.php: call to moodleform_mod->moodleform_mod() 

a funny message is given after installing, for some reason it is picking up  one of the test role I set up (CICCIO).

not sure why, I have not asked him to do so.

Hi Imbu,

What version of the Moodle module and BigBlueButton server are you using?

Hi Séverin,

It was no small amount of effort to get the BigBlueButtonBN activity module updated for supporting record and playback for Moodle 2.0 and 2.1.

We would like to see some customer pull before updating the Moodle 1.9 module to support record and playback.  That way, if there isn't any need for it right now Moodle 1.9, we can focus on efforts on BigBlueButton.

If you are at a University or College that wants to use BigBlueButton 0.8 for record and playback and want to see BigBlueButtonBN supported in Moodle 1.9, please let us know!

Regards,... Fred

Blindside Networks

Hi Guido,

We actually had support for CentOS about two years ago, but the work of packaging and testing a release for both CentOS and Ubuntu took way too much time.

After that release, we made a decision to focus on one distribution so we could invest more of our resources into BigBlueButton itself.

For more information, see our FAQ entry for CentOS support.

Regards,... Fred
BigBlueButton developer

Hi Imbu,

For BigBlueButton 0.8, our main focus has been adding the ability to record and playback sessions.  

We did much work on improving the audio in 0.8 as well .. for more information see the release notes for 0.8-beta-2.  The video remains unchanged from 0.71a to 0.8.

BTW, Skype audio and video is very good for one-to-one collaboration.  The architecture of skype is peer-to-peer, whereas in BigBlueButton all the communication goes through the BigBlueButton server (which enables us to later record the session).

If you have needs for one-to-one collaboration that is not integrated with Moodle, Skype is very good option.

Regards,... Fred

BigBlueButton Developer

Hi Fulvia,

A few questions:

1.  Who setup your BigBlueButton server (did you do it or have someone externally)?  

2.  Has the server IP address changed recently?  

3.  What version of BigBlueButton are you running?

You should be able to restart BigBlueButton with the following command

   sudo bbb-conf --restart

Let us know if that gets the audio going for you.  

Regards,... Fred
BigBlueButton Developer 

Hi,

You must have at least 2 people connected to the same conference room, with voice enable. You hear music when only 1 personne is voice connected...

Hi Séverin,

We're always looking for any issues that people encounter using BigBlueButton ... thanks for sharing your experiences.

> One thing is really annoying : the presented document can
> not be enlarged. When you zoom it (as it can be read, when
> having small size), you can't enlarge the screen, to see the
> whole width. It keeps a greyed colonn at the right.

BigBlueButton has been designed for display of landscape documents (presentations).  The currnet display model is fit-to-page.  Since most monitors are landscape, this works well.

However, if you display a portrait document, the fit-to-page leaves the text too small.  What you really want is fit-to-width.  This is one of the open enhancement requests for BigBlueButton.  See Implement "fit to width" to display portrait documents in the presentation window in our issue tracker.

To calabrate expectations, this feature won't be implemented in the near-term (next month or two) as we're pretty focused on finishing BigBlueButton 0.8.  

However, BigBlueButton is open source, so there are options for getting this feature in place.  For more information see our FAQ: When will feature X be implemented?

Regards,... Fred
BigBlueButton Developer  

Hi Séverin,

We have added fit-to-width in the latest build of BigBlueButton 0.8-beta-4 for presentation layout.  See screen shot at

  http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/08Overview#Fit-to-width

This will enable you to now optimially display portrait and landscape documents within BigBlueButton.

Regards,... Fred
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BigBlueButton Developer
 

Adding some info

 wget http://mybbserver/bigbluebutton/api -O - --quiet; echo

response "<response><returncode>SUCCESS</returncode><version>0.8</version></response>" so i guess my moodle server can connect bb server.When trying to create $response;

Array
(
    [0] => Video Ders
    [1] => d54beb488008fe40fddbd3873f311edfd732b6ae
    [2] => 
    [3] => 9e058e1a5fd09bf02ad6f7e9a9e1a7ebef7393ec
    [4] => 326109c63f2349da64fa3d63a6eb11793f3123d1
    [5] =>mysalt
    [6] => http://mybbserver/bigbluebutton/
    [7] => http://mymoodleserver
)

BigBlueButtonBN::createMeetingURL response;