Cannot delete Moodle courses with no longer existing BBB activity

Cannot delete Moodle courses with no longer existing BBB activity

by Anton Tremetzberger -
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Dear Community,

We have used Big Blue Button a few years ago and it was used in some Moodle courses. Now the BBB server no longer exists. I get the following error message when I try to delete the Moodle course:

Error: Argument 1 passed to mod_bigbluebuttonbn\instance::__construct() must be an instance of cm_info, null given, called in [dirroot]/mod/bigbluebuttonbn/classes/instance.php on line 139

Deleting the Moodle course is not possible. Does anyone have a solution for the problem?

thanks & best regards
Anton

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Cannot delete Moodle courses with no longer existing BBB activity

by Anton Tremetzberger -
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Dear Community,

I think I have found a solution. Perhaps it will also work for others: I think that the BBB plugin accesses the BBB server when deleting the courses in order to delete the recording there as well. Our old server data is still stored in the Moodle backend (bigbluebuttonbn_server_url), but the server no longer exists. In my opinion, this causes the error message in Moodle and the course can therefore not be deleted.

Our solution is as follows: we still have a server URL and the token of an old BBB test instance that is still running. We have entered this URL and token in the backend. Now the courses can also be deleted - even if the recordings do not exist on this test server. At least it works for us.

best regards, Anton

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