Activities: BigBlueButtonBN
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 all content for later playback.
The BigBlueButton project was started in 2008 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 use this plugin (you can skip the first part on installation if your installing from moodle.org)
Note: If you are installing manually, 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 equivalent 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.
If you need help for configuring or using this plugin please use the Forums. 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. The more details you provide the easiest for anyone to help you.
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We have a Moodle 3.1 installation with BigBlueButtonBN 2.1.5 (2016051909). For now, we are using the test server to review the functionalities. Everything works very good, but at the momment when we try with the Breakout rooms, there is an error (ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT). Is this feature will no longer be available for testing?
Thank´s a lot. Regards
Regards,.. Fred
Thanks for your atention. The problem was fixed. Any detail i'll let you know.
Regards.
Thank you.
Bugs should be reported through the tracking system. It is the best way for developers to work on them.
You can try this version https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/moodle-mod_bigbluebuttonbn/releases/tag/v2.1.10 it includes a hot-fix that adresses issue https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-6900 directly related with the issue you are reporting.
An update should be released soon
Currently, when an user share desktop, we can only see, but have you considered to add the possibility to hear the audio of an application running in the user's computer that is sharing the desktop?
Thanks for your attention
Regards from Mexico!
Update to 2.1.11 this morning and now I am getting this error:
view_error_unable_join_student
Help!! trying to demo this idea to a group of instructors.
Rob
Stack trace:
line 496 of /lib/setuplib.php: moodle_exception thrown
line 54 of /mod/bigbluebuttonbn/mod_form.php: call to print_error()
line 204 of /lib/formslib.php: call to mod_bigbluebuttonbn_mod_form->definition()
line 97 of /course/moodleform_mod.php: call to moodleform->__construct()
line 141 of /course/modedit.php: call to moodleform_mod->__construct()
When creating a Bigbluebutton activity in Moodle 3.3, the setting sections are not able to be expanded. As can be seen from the screen shot here: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1c2FHeu .
It has the same problem in Moodle default themes Clean and Boost themes. I am using Moodle 3.3, Php 5.6.27 and MySQL 5.7.16. I installed the latest version of the plugin version 2016051916. My institution is using Bigbluebutton for years. It is important to have the bbb activity work. I am really looking forward to seeing this problem to be fixed soon. Thank you for your help!
Bugs should be reported through the tracking system. It is the best way for developers to work on them https://tracker.moodle.org/.
Any other inquiry should be posted in the forums (Webconferencing plugins section) https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=7797.https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_bigbluebuttonbn#
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