Jitsi
This module allows creating jitsi-meet videoconference sessions fully integrated in Moodle. These videoconferences will use your Moodle username by displaying your username and avatar in videoconferences.
Jitsi-meet is an open-source videoconferencing solution that enables you to easily build and implement secure video conferencing solutions.
Whether you use the public server provided by Jitsi (meet.jit.si) or use your own Jitsi video conferencing server, with this plugin you can create video conferencing sessions in your Moodle courses in a simple way: just configure the domain of the Jitsi server and then, in the course, create a new Jitsi activity.
The module also allows the use of tokens to give moderation permissions to the roles you want using the mod/jitsi:moderation capability. (For this option it is necessary to have your own Jitsi server with token configuration).
Schedule your video conferences in time and make them accessible with The minutes as you want. In addition, the session will be shown in the Moodle calendar.
Jitsi allows video conference recording, direct transmission to YouTube, screen sharing, full screen display, statistics display, among other features and all these options are fully compatible with this module.
We have an ansible (ansible-jitsi-meet) to configure your own Jitsi server and for example to be able to use Token moderation.
More information about Jitsi's videoconferences: jitsi.org
Some module configuration options:
- jitsi-domain: Set the address of the jitsi server to be used here. By default you can use the public server meet.jit.si but you can use your own Jitsi server
- jitsi-help: Enter text here that you want to display to all users when they enter a jitsi resource.
- jitsi-id: Choose how you want to identify users in video conferences. Options are username or first and last name.
- jitsi-sessionname: You can configure how to name the videoconference rooms. You can use the course shortname, the jitsi resource ID and the session name. You can choose any combination of these three parameters.
- jitsi-separator: Choose a character with which to separate the jitsi-sesionname parameters.
- jitsi-channellastcam: With this parameter you can define the maximum number of cameras that users can see. If you set it to -1 there will be no limit but if for example you set it to 2, only the 2 cameras of the last two users that have been active in the videoconference will be displayed.
- jitsi-showinfo: Show or not the videoconference information
- jitsi-blurbutton: Show or not the option to blur the image background
- jitsi-shareyoutube: Show or not the option to share a YouTube video in the video conference.
- jitsi-livebuttom: Show or not the option to broadcast the video conference through YouTube.
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the screen sharing option has not changed and continues to work in 3.9 and 3.10. Have you checked if the mod/jitsi:sharedesktop capability is allowed for the role?
Great plugin! However, it It looks like the recent change from PARAM_TEXT to PARAM_USERNAME in sessionpriv.php broke the multilingual support - now if the name is in Cyrillic for example, it gets totally removed);
you're right. I modified this parameter to fix an xss scripting problem. I think we have to rethink how to do private sessions. I think the best option is to remove this option and rethink it again.
For moderation you need your own Jitsi server and config it for tokens. If you use a public server (e.g. meet.jit.si) you can't use moderation.
now i am working on integrating youtube recording and streaming directly into moodle. It is quite advanced and will be in the next version I think.
Those who has added in Apache or Nginx the header Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' as a workaround for https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/8510 should review their config in order to limit this header just for the the /moodle/pluginfile.php used by our plugin to get the profile avatar image.
We have detected that some webservices in moodle adds this header by their own and this can cause conflicts whith Moodle App in iOS devices because iOS fails when this header is twice Moodle App could fail. Android devices are not affected.
In Apache you can limit this header just for the pluginfile.php in this way.
Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin 'https://meet.jit.si/'
The good news is that beta jitsi public site (https://beta.meet.jit.si/) has solved the problem and we expect that in few weeks that was solved in their production servers and in the new version for Debian for our custom Jitsi servers.
Best regards.
previously when a token was used, users couldn't change their name, but in one of the latest jitsi updates this does not work. I'm investigating what has been the reason to fix it.
Thanks!
Una de la herramientas que le faltaba a moodle para estos tiempos.
Muy buena.