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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test-install is not meant to be used for production, even though you can run all your tests having full capabilities. For production you should have you own server or a host your sessions somewhere else. (see http://www.bigbluebutton.org/commercial-support/)
Regarding to the error message, well it is very clear. You are not using a supported version. You can either upgrade you Moodle at least to 2007101591.12 (see http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Releases#Moodle_1.9), or you can try changing this restriction editing the version.php file. Although there is no warranty that the plugin is going to work in that version. there are too many changes between versions. I would suggest you to upgrade.
Good luck.
Do you know what is the problems? is it need some corrections in the plugin code? and how to correct it?
Thank you very much!
Tim Chan
Two suggestions.
Activate the "Debug messages", ALL or DEVELOPER will give you a good idea about what is going on. Perhaps is something you can fix on your own or it can give us more information to help you.
Two, In most of the cases the problem is communication between servers. You probably already did this test, but the recomendation is to run on your moodle server (assuming it is a linux/unix one)
wget http://test-install.blindsidenetworks.com/bigbluebutton/api -O - --quiet; echo
you should have an xml as response indicating SUCCESS
I have created a post on that forum. Hope some people can help me.
This issue occurs in recordingsbn view.php too, line 81.
Anyone else experienced this?
On the other hand, the version is not really important if you dont give support for multiple Moodle versions. So if you could also safely get rid off these lines, and also the one that assigns the value to $module. ( $module = $DB->get_record('modules', array('name' => 'recordingsbn'));)
Thanks for letting us know.
how to fix it?
On our server and on the BBB test server, we can initiate a session. However, when recording is enabled for the session (the login message panel says recording is on), no recordings are listed in the RecordingsBN Resource page. This is the same for our server and the BBB test server.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Floyd
Indeed, you can disable the recording feature by modifying the code in your deployment. Just comment third block in mod_form.php (line 76 to 87).
The whole configuration of the meeting can be done by any user with granted privileges for editing content in the course. Normally teachers.
Regards,
Howver, your git repo (which we use), is still showing version 2013110103
Are you no longer updating your github repo ?
(same for recordingsbn module)
Thanks,
Johan
There were a couple of shell files that needed to be removed and they were not in github repo because the .gitignore file
The only inconvenient was that in order to upload a new package the version tag needs to be updated.
I jave just updated the github repo anyways.
Thanks
As you may know, moodle 2.7 stable released about a week ago. Do you have any plans for updating this module for moodle's latest version?