BigBlueButton via Moodle is an effective video conferencing tool to use for presentationsseminars, seminars lectures and lectures. For example, you can use this tool to poll your students or resentations. This tool allows to share video and audio streams, make presentations available to students or to them. Students can give feedback in the engagen them using polls, chat or via an audio connenction.Anchor Beschreibung Beschreibung
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28.09.2020 – Participants rights can be set in Moodle while creating the activity and waiting room function 02.09.2020 - Upgrade to Moodle 3.9: now you can create an External guest access link (as well as an Access code), to invite external people to participate in your session! 13.08.2020 - Using existing recordings in the next semester To be able to use existing recordings of BigBlueButton in a following course, you can use the function "Import recording links". |
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For uninterrupted conferencing, please enable only those webcams, that are needed. We recommend to have not more then five cameras translating at the same time!
If you your sessions is to have more than 100 studentsparticipants, you can record your lecture and share it with the students afterwards. |
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Part 1 - Preparation and implementation in Moodle
Adding a session to Moodle
To use BigBlueButton as part of your Moodle course, you first have to integrate it by selecting Add an activity or resource.
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- Room/Activity only: Basic use of the session with a live presentation (without the recording function enabled)
- Room/Activity with recordings: Use of the session as a live presentation as well as additional recordings (recordings will be accessible to students in Moodle after the session has ended)
- Recordings only: Already existing recordings can be displayed via this function (currently not enabled)
You can access the recording function in BigBlueButton itself (see below).
2. As with any Moodle activity, define the First, you can define General settings:
- Name of your session under Virtual classroom name (this will be displayed as a link in the Moodle course).
- If necessary, add further information under Description. Tick Display description on course page if you would like the description to be visible.
- To notify students of the creation of a new BigBlueButton activity, enable the option Send notification.
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3. Under Activity/Room settings you can leave a Welcome message and decide whether students can join the session before the moderator enters the session. If you choose to enable this option, you should leave a welcome text for your students..
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If the instance type "Room/activity with recordings" was selected above, you can set determine, whether a session can be recorded.
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In the section External guest access link you can allow external people (without having an active u:account) to participate in your BigBlueButton session.Anchor bbb_gastlink bbb_gastlink
You have to activate this function by choosing the checkbox "Create gust access link for external participants.".
All further settings need to be configured directly in the activity (further information: Using the external guest access link).
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