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| The BigBlueButtonBN Activity Module allows the creation of activities into the course, and activities provide an easy way for the teacher to create and manage a virtual meeting room / classroom on the BigBlueButton server, and for the student to log into the correct room.
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| ==Features==
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| [http://www.bigbluebutton.org/ '''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.
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| BigBlueButton supports real-time sharing of slides (including whiteboard), audio, video, chat, and desktops. The latest 0.80 release can now record lectures for later playback (see [http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/ReleaseNotes release notes]).
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| With this plugin you can
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| * Create links in any class to a BigBlueButton session
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| * Specify join open/close dates that will appear in the Moodle calendar
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| * Create a custom welcome messages that appears in the chat window when users join the session
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| * Launch BigBlueButton in its own window
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| * Restrict students from entering the session until a teacher joins
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| * Monitor the active sessions for the course and end any session (eject all users)
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| * Record and playback your lectures (requires [http://www.bigbluebutton.org/2012/06/18/bigbluebutton-0-8-released/ BigBlueButton 0.80])
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| * Access and manage recorded lectures (requires [https://docs.moodle.org/22/en/RecordingsBN recordingsbn plugin] to be installed)
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| ==Requirements==
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| You need:
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| * A server running Moodle 2.0+
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| * A BigBlueButton 0.80 (or later) server running on a separate server (not on the same server as your Moodle site)
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| * The lates version of [http://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButtonBN Activity Module]
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| Blindside Networks provides you a test BigBlueButton server for testing this plugin. To use this test server, just accept the default settings when configuring the activity module. The default settings are:
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| url: <nowiki>http://test-install.blindsidenetworks.com/bigbluebutton/</nowiki>
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| salt: 8cd8ef52e8e101574e400365b55e11a6
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| For information on how to setup your own BigBlueButton server see [http://www.bigbluebutton.org/ http://bigbluebutton.org/]
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| ==Installation==
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| These instructions assume your Moodle server is installed at /var/www/moodle.
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| * Copy zip file you downloaded to /var/www/moodle/mod
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| cp bigbluebuttonbn.zip /var/www/moodle/mod
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| * Enter the following commands
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| cd /var/www/moodle/mod
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| sudo unzip bigbluebuttonbn.zip
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| This will create the directory
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| ./bigbluebuttonbn
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| * Login to your moodle site as administrator
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| Moodle will detect the new module and prompt you to Upgrade.
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| * Click the 'Upgrade' button.
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| The activity module will install mod_bigbluebuttonbn.
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| * Click the 'Continue' button.
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| You'll be prompted to configure the activity module.
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| * Enter the URL and salt (security key) to your BigBlueButton server (or use the default values for testing).
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| * Click the 'Save Changes' button.
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| At this point, you can enter any course, turn editing on, and add a BigBlueButtonBN activity link to the class.
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| Note: You will want to install the RecordingsBN activity module to access recordings as well.
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| You can find a [http://www.youtube.com/embed/ShB04IoNgk8 video] overview of installing and using this plugin, at http://www.blindsidenetworks.com/integrations/moodle/
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| ==Development status==
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| ==FAQ==
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| ==More Information==
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