Moodle plugins directory: BigBlueButtonBN | Moodle.org
BigBlueButtonBN
BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for online learning. The goal of the project is to enable instructors to effectively engage remote students anywhere in the world. The project supports live online classes, virtual office hours, and group collaboration with remote students.
BigBlueButton supports real-time sharing of slides (including whiteboard), audio, video, chat, emojis, breakout rooms, and screen. It also record all content for later playback.
Like Moodle, BigBlueButton is open source. The BigBlueButton project was started in 2008 by Blindside Networks. In addition our work on BigBlueButton core, we created this BigBlueButtonBN Moodle plugin so you can fully leverage BigBlueButton's capabilities from within your Moodle site.
The BigBlueButtonBN plugin enables you to:- Create multiple activity links to online sessions within any course
- Restrict students from joining a session until a teacher (moderator) joins the session
- Launch BigBlueButton in a separate window
- Create a custom welcome message that appears at the top of the chat window when joining the session
- Specify join open/close dates for the session that appears in the Moodle's calendar
- Record a session
- Access and manage recordings
The best way to install is directly from moodle.org. For a video walkthrough of installing the plugin, click the image below
You’ll notice in the video that BigBlueButtonBN module comes pre-configured with a test BigBlueButton server, aptly called test-install.blindsidenetworks.com. This server is maintained by Blindside Networks maintains to help test your installation with BigBlueButton. Blindside Networks also develops and maintains the BigBlueButtonBN plugin.
For information on setting up your own BigBlueButton server, see http://bigbluebutton.org/.
BigBlueButton and the BigBlueButton logo are trademarks of BigBlueButton Inc.
If you think you have found a bug in this plugin, please open a ticket in the Bug Tracker and provide details of how to reproduce the issue. The more details you provide the easiest for us to find and solve the problem.
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Also when asking for help provide the more possible details. Please provide (a) your version of Moodle, (b) the version of the BigBlueButtonBN plugin, and (c) the error message you are receiving. A screen capture is usually very helpful.
While we certainly appreciate feedback on this plugin in the comments sections, if you found a bug or are looking for support, please use either the Bug Tracker or Forum.
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When I use the "Description" section to include some text and any image (uploading a .png file), there is no problem to see this image when I enter to "Edit settings".
Also, I have enabled "Display description on course page" and it works fine. I can see the text and this image in the main page of my course. OK.
But when I use the link to enter the BigBlueButtonBN activity (http://www.mymoodlesite.es/mod/bigbluebuttonbn/view.php?id=...) the image is not displayed.
Using Firebug I can see that the code when the image fails says ... img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/nameofmyimage.png" ...
But in the main page (when image is displayed ok), the code says ... img src="http://mymoodlesite.es/pluginfile.php/141991/mod_bigbluebuttonbn/intro/nameofmyimage.png" ...
Is this a bug?
Thanks
We have a Moodle 3.1 installation with BigBlueButtonBN 2.1.5 (2016051909). For now, we are using the test server to review the functionalities. Everything works very good, but at the momment when we try with the Breakout rooms, there is an error (ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT). Is this feature will no longer be available for testing?
Thank´s a lot. Regards
Regards,.. Fred
Thanks for your atention. The problem was fixed. Any detail i'll let you know.
Regards.
Thank you.
Bugs should be reported through the tracking system. It is the best way for developers to work on them.
You can try this version https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/moodle-mod_bigbluebuttonbn/releases/tag/v2.1.10 it includes a hot-fix that adresses issue https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-6900 directly related with the issue you are reporting.
An update should be released soon
Currently, when an user share desktop, we can only see, but have you considered to add the possibility to hear the audio of an application running in the user's computer that is sharing the desktop?
Thanks for your attention
Regards from Mexico!
Update to 2.1.11 this morning and now I am getting this error:
view_error_unable_join_student
Help!! trying to demo this idea to a group of instructors.
Rob
Stack trace:
line 496 of /lib/setuplib.php: moodle_exception thrown
line 54 of /mod/bigbluebuttonbn/mod_form.php: call to print_error()
line 204 of /lib/formslib.php: call to mod_bigbluebuttonbn_mod_form->definition()
line 97 of /course/moodleform_mod.php: call to moodleform->__construct()
line 141 of /course/modedit.php: call to moodleform_mod->__construct()
When creating a Bigbluebutton activity in Moodle 3.3, the setting sections are not able to be expanded. As can be seen from the screen shot here: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1c2FHeu .
It has the same problem in Moodle default themes Clean and Boost themes. I am using Moodle 3.3, Php 5.6.27 and MySQL 5.7.16. I installed the latest version of the plugin version 2016051916. My institution is using Bigbluebutton for years. It is important to have the bbb activity work. I am really looking forward to seeing this problem to be fixed soon. Thank you for your help!