Activities: BigBlueButtonBN
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BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for distance education. The goal of the project is to enable universities, colleges, and K12 to delivery a high-quality learning experience to remote students.
BigBlueButton supports real-time sharing of slides (including whiteboard), audio, video, chat, and desktops. It also record lectures for later playback, specifically the slides + audio + chat (see release notes).
The BigBlueButton project was started in 2007 by Blindside Networks. In addition our work on BigBlueButton core, we created this Moodle 2.x activity module so you can fully leverage BigBlueButton's capabilities from within your courses.
This module enables you to:
- Create multiple activity links to on-line sessions within a 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 (requires BigBlueButton 0.8 or later)
- Access and mange recordings (requires installation of recordingsbn)
The following YouTube video to demonstrate how to install and use this module.
Note: The video shows uncompressing a single ZIP file that contains two modules: mod/bigbluebuttonbn (create BigBlueButton activity links) and mod/recordingsbn (access recordings). This is euqivalent to installing both bigbluebuttonbn and recordingsbn.
The BigBlueButtonBN module works out-of-the-box with test-install.blindsidenetworks.com, a BigBlueButton server that Blindside Networks maintains for the community to help test your installation with BigBlueButton.
For information on setting up your own BigBlueButton server, see http://bigbluebutton.org/.
BigBlueButton and the BigBlueButton logo are trademarks of BigBlueButton Inc.
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If you need further help please go to the forums. Either opening an new thread at http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=7797 or with a post on the corresponding one to the release you are experiencing problems. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208959 It will be easier to follow up there.
Also, if you think you found a bug that can be reproduced please add an issue with more details on the tracking system http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB/component/12231
Congratulations for a grate job!!!
I´v installed an activity in my moodle 2.5 and it works!
Some quiestions:
1. Can I use the BigBlueButton test server for my real conferences or I have to install in my server?
2. I have another moodle 1.9 that doesn´t allow to install the activity:
I have an error:
The module "bigbluebuttonbn" (2013071000) could not be installed because it requires a newer version of Moodle (this version is 2007101509, and the module requires 2007101591.12).
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