BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system that enables universities and colleges to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students.
These instructions describe how to install the BigBlueButtonBN Activity Module for Moodle. This module is developed and supported by Blindside Networks, the company that started the BigBlueButton project in 2007.
- With the latest version of this plugin you can
- Create resource links to recordings made with BigBlueButton (requires bigbluebuttonbn plugin to be installed)
- Publish/unpublish and delete recordings
You need:
- A server running Moodle
- A BigBlueButton 0.8 (or later) server running on a separate server (not on the same server as your Moodle site)
- BigBlueButtonBN installed
Note that on previous versions of Moodle you will need to use the specific version of this plugin.
- For Moodle 1.9 use version 1.0.9 (2013071001).
- For Moodle 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 use version 1.1.0 (2015062100)
- For Moodle 2.6+ use version 1.3.0 (2016051904).
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
url: http://test-install.blindsidenetworks.com/bigbluebutton/
salt: 8cd8ef52e8e101574e400365b55e11a6
For information on how to setup your own BigBlueButton server see
This GitHub repository at
https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/moodle-mod_recordingsbn
contains the latest source. We recommend to download the latest snapshot from the Moodle Plugin Database.
If you have feedback, enhancement requests, or would like commercial support for hosting, integrating, customizing, branding, or scaling BigBlueButton, contact us at
Regards,... Fred Dixon ffdixon [at] blindsidenetworks [dt] com