BigBlueButtonBN

Activities ::: mod_bigbluebuttonbn
Maintained by Fred Dixon, Jesus Federico
Integrate BigBlueButton within Moodle - including record and playback of sessions.

BigBlueButtonBN 2.1.7 for Moodle 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2

Note This plugin version is no longer available here in the plugins directory.

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Stuart Mealor
Monday, 10 April 2017, 7:45 AM
Usability
10/10
Accessibility
10/10
Technical
9/10
General comments
Big Blue Button (often written as 'BBB') is an open source (like Moodle) web-conference system.  Although it is free and open source, it provides similar functionality to systems costing many thousands of dollars such as Adobe Connect, Cisco WebEx, and WiZiQ.This plugin allows Teachers to add BBB conference rooms to courses in just the same way as they might add a Forum or Quiz !  There's almost no learning curve to using the plugin - although of course Teachers, and Students, do need ...
Usability
Very easy to use - with excellent documentation and video tutorials available on the BBB site.Administrators will have quite a bit of work to do to setup a Big Blue Button Server, and then install this integration plugin and configure correctly.  However, for the end user, which is this case is Teachers adding a BBB activity, or Students using a BBB activity, it's fantastic, and works just like any other Activity in Moodle :-)Is it fun, with good graphics ?  Well yes !  IF you nee...
Accessibility
The accessibility of the plugin itself is covered by Moodle plugin code guidelines, which the plugin follows.How accessible Big Blue Button itself is would be a different question, and is best answered by reading BBB documentation and Forums.  But in terms of the accessibility of this plugin, within Moodle, there do not appear to be any specific accessibility concerns.
Technical
Obviously I haven't reviewed the code for this !  lol.  That would take some time ;-)But we can say that the maintainability of this awesome plugin is likely to be around for as long as Big Blue Button itself is around.  And the integration is part of MoodleCloud services, so both BBB and Moodle HQ have a highly vested interest in ensuring this integration plugin continues to work.One thing I would note is that it can be a challenging process to initially setup a BBB server. Too m...

BigBlueButtonBN 1.0.4 for Moodle 2.0, 2.1

Note This plugin version is no longer available here in the plugins directory.

Gavin Henrick
Saturday, 15 October 2011, 5:19 AM
General comments
The activity provides an easy way for the teacher to create and manage a room on the BigBlueButton server, and for the student to log into the correct room. Is it simple to install? This module hosts the source is in GitHub, however the plugin database entry hosts the download zip files. The zipfile you download holds two folders bigbluebuttonbn and recordingsbn which need to be uploaded to your mod folder in Moodle.  When upgrading through the notifications page, the two parts installed su...