BigBlueButtonBN

Activities ::: mod_bigbluebuttonbn

Maintained by

Fred Dixon,

Jesus Federico

Part of sets BigBlueButton, Moodle Workplace.

Integrate BigBlueButton within Moodle - including record and playback of sessions.

Latest release: 9 days

8718 sites

2k downloads

387 fans

Current versions available: 8

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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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Contributors

Fred Dixon (Lead maintainer)

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Jesus Federico: Project Manager

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Comments

Séverin Terrier
Wed, 14 Nov 2018, 7:50 PM
I use Moodle 3.5.3 and the latest version of BigBlueButtonBN (2.2.7 - 2017101015). When i want to reset a course containing (at least) a BigBlueButton activity, there's (near the end of the page) a section named "Reset not implemented" indicating that reseting function isn't implemented for BigBlueButtonBN. It would be very usefull. Do you plan to add it? Soon?
This page could help : https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Implementing_Reset_course_functionality_in_a_module
Thanks in advance
jona polanco
Fri, 23 Nov 2018, 9:23 AM
I have a doubt, when creating the room with recordings or only the recording room, no recordings are saved.

I enter the video conference I put record I finish the recording and I go out and the recordings are not shown.

I hope and can help me work in moodle 3.5 with the test server.
Carlos Chiarella
Sat, 24 Nov 2018, 12:58 AM
I had the same issue as Jona. We are running Moodle version 3.5.3. When you click on the "Recording settings", no settings are displayed.
Ahmed Samir
Tue, 27 Nov 2018, 2:49 PM
thanks for this products and what is amazing it it free to use ..
but
when i try to add it this error i get :
install is ok and after save it on the course i get this error :

page : http://********/testmood/course/modedit.php

message : in red table header:

You may not be able to visit this page because of:

an out-of-date bookmark/favourite
a search engine that has an out-of-date listing for this site
a mistyped address
you have no access to this page
The requested resource was not found.
An error has occurred while processing your request.
Please try one of the following pages:

Home Page
If difficulties persist, please contact the System Administrator of this site and report the error below.

how to solve this one??
Chris Swinney
Sun, 2 Dec 2018, 6:55 PM
There is a bug in your description above I think

"And while we certainly appreciate feedback on this plugin in the comments sections, but if you found a big or are looking for support, please use either the Bug Tracker or Forums. "

should read:

"... but if you found a BUG or are looking for support...."
Abraham Quisido
Wed, 30 Jan 2019, 11:28 AM
Do I really need a VPS to install BigBlueButton? Can I do it in a shared hosting package?
Fred Dixon
Wed, 30 Jan 2019, 9:46 PM
> Do I really need a VPS to install BigBlueButton? Can I do it in a shared hosting package?

We recommend a dedicated server for BigBlueButton. See: http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/install.html.
Hafriz Azhan
Mon, 11 Feb 2019, 6:33 PM
whenever i install bigbluebutton plugin, all icon either in boost or moove themes broken (fontawesome). anyone have this problem? after uninstalling the plugin, it will be back to normal . Moodle 3.5, latest bigbluebuttonbn plugin version
Sidd Lep
Fri, 22 Feb 2019, 8:34 PM
Hello! I just want to report the problem I had with with using Moodle version 3.5.3 where some icons on the theme (Moove theme, but also boost disappeared after installing BigBlueButton. It happened on two of my Moodle sites. When I removed the BBB plugin, the icons appears again.
Jesus Federico
Sat, 23 Feb 2019, 9:03 PM
For the icon disappearance issue, there is a patch that is coming in the next release. But you can apply it directly like this https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/moodle-mod_bigbluebuttonbn/commit/a5da03712b2e5f9beaa5fddcd26c82b2a61fec48
Fact Somraj
Fri, 12 Apr 2019, 12:04 PM
good articale
Dinis Medeiros
Sat, 27 Apr 2019, 6:53 PM
Once the RecordingsBN plugin has the warning: "This plugin has been phased out ..." i think it's good idea change the AMOS modulename_help | bigbluebuttonbn:
"... To view later recordings, add a RecordingsBN resource to this course."
Thanks for the plugin. It's only a sugestion.
I'm a PT-PT translator.
Debbie McKay
Thu, 6 June 2019, 11:57 PM
Awesome product. Missing one important feature we are presently using "Request control of a shared screen". I know BigBlueButton is pure HTM5, and that this feature would require a download of a binary to give a remote user control over the screen. Question: I don't have a lot of technical background so I am wondering if this is doable?
Fred Dixon
Fri, 7 June 2019, 7:40 AM
Hi Debbie, thanks for your feedback. Requesting remote control over a screen via BigBlueButton is not something that we're planning on implementing. It might be possible to write a downloadable plugin to achieve this, but it's not on our road map for the project.
zubair khan
Mon, 22 July 2019, 2:09 PM
I have a doubt, when creating the room with recordings or only the recording room, no recordings are saved.

I enter the video conference I put record I finish the recording and I go out and the recordings are not shown.

I hope and can help me work in moodle 3.5 with the test server.