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.
If you need help for configuring or using this plugin, please join the Discussion. There are hundreds of users subscribed in the forums and many of them are willing to help. Besides your question may have been responded already. Using the search option can save you time.
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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Yes we have. But we haven't started working on it, so please keep visiting this page. As soon as we have it, it is going to be released. You can count on it!
Thanks for the interest.
thanks for all your marvellous work with BigBlueButton and the associated Moodle plugins. There's a small problem with "mod/bigblubuttonbn/version.php", which causes installation warnings on Moodle 2.6.
CHANGE THIS: $plugin->component = 'moodle-mod_bigbluebuttonbn';
TO THIS: $plugin->component = 'mod_bigbluebuttonbn';
regards
Gordon
thanks for the heads up. I am actually working on an update for Moodle 2.7 and yesterday I uploaded a wrong package.
The package was live for less than one hour and I was hoping that no one had used it to update. But it seems that you just did
I am testing right now, and depending of the plugin database the last version with support for 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 could be 1.0.10 and the one for Moodle 2.6, 2.7 and further would be 1.0.11. This is because the deprecated components since 2.6, but nothing sure yet. I am still testing.
Regards,
Jesus Federico
The worst and more annoying, is that we can't uninstall the mod_bigbluebuttonbn via the plugin interface so we can't revert our installation with a working pluggin. I might try to erase it drectly passing by the database but this time I'll make a snapshot before.
Thanks for the heads up. There are major changes in the version 1.0.11 and it is still beta. Even though it was tested on 2.6 (2013111800) and 2.7 (2014051200), there may be some hidden issues that we appreciate people report.
So, if you have a production environment, definitively wait until the maturity is at least RC.
Thanks again
Moodle 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
I look forward to your reply.
thx
You are probably not downloading the right version. But anyways, most of the code is the same for the two plugins, the only difference is the version.php file.
You can edit this file and comment/uncomment the portion of code you need according to the version of Moodle you have.
Regards,
If yes, how can I do so?
server URL is http://192.168.0.202/bigbluebutton/
i recieved Unable to join the meeting. Please check the url of the BigBlueButton server AND check to see if the BigBlueButton server is running. when i try to use it. The BBB server is up and runing. http://192.168.0.202 give me the demo page when i try it in the browser. Can some one help me.
It looks to me as an issue with your BigBlueButton server. Having the demo page on top does not mean that your server is working.
Open a tread in the forum and I will follow up with you.
Unable to connect. Please check the url of the BigBlueButton server AND check to see if the BigBlueButton server is running.