BigBlueButton via Moodle is an effective video conferencing tool for seminars, lectures and resentations. This tool allows to share video and audio streams, make presentations available to students or to engagen them using polls, chat or an audio connenction.Anker Beschreibung Beschreibung
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9.1112.2020 – Currently presentations that were uploaded beforehand Now you can upload presentations directly in the Moodle settings are not being displayed during a BBB session. Please upload your presentations directly inside the BBB-session. We are working to make this feature available again. 11/2020 – If you and your students seem to have been directed into different BBB-rooms, please check, whether the group mode might be enabled. 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 – Re-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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Accessing the virtual classroom
1. Click the new activity you created Open a BigBlueButton-activity on the course page (the date of the session) .
2. Within the time period you specified under Schedule for session, the option Join session will appear, that both the moderator and the viewers can see. Click this button to join the session.
This button will not be visible to the moderator or the viewers outside of the specified time period.
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If you ticked the box in Activity/Room settings that allows viewers to join the session before the moderator enters the session, the button will be displayed. However, viewers cannot access BigBlueButton until the moderator is present.
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Please have only one browser tab or window open, when clicking Join session as it may occur that the session will not be assigned to the right activity. |
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If you have activated the option to use the external guest access link (within the BigBlueButton activity settings), external people can persons without a u:account can also access your session too.
They will be send redirected to an invite invitation page, where they can login to the session.
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3. In area of "Access Code" further you can generate a password, which will then be required for logging into the session.
This access code needs to be generated manually by using the button 
(on the right of the field). With this button you can also generate a new one, if necessary.
Further you can copy the access code to your clipboard 
or delete it entirely 
, so that participants accessing the session via guest link don't need any access code to participate again.
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I use hyperlinks and/ or animations in my presentation or a PDF document, but I'm not able to use them? Why it doesn't work or how I can use them?Anker praesentation_inhalt praesentation_inhalt
In BigBlueButton all uploaded files get converted into graphs (one graph per page or slide) and so further content is not included in the presented screens.
To be able to use such content, please open the file locally on your computer and use the function Sharing screen instead.- I am not able to view a recording - I see a blank white screen when I click on "presentation"!
If you go to a BBB activity you will see the button "presentation" next to each available recording.
In the backend the video file will be loaded at the same time, which might not be finished immediately. This could happen especially with large recordings. In general wait a few seconds before clicking the button "presentation" or refreshing the site. - I did some recordings in another course, can I use them in further courses too?
Yes, you can use the function "Import recording links" within a new created BigBlueButton activity. Here you can link to existing recordings of another BigBlueButton activity, so that students can access them. - The quality of my recording(s) is poor. What can I do to improve this?
In a first step you could turn off the option to share microphone and webcam for participants (e.g. during a presentation). Furthermore you shouldn't run a session in BigBlueButton, while you are connected via VPN. - I would like to play audio/ video during my lecture.
In BigBlueButton you only could play audio or video from external resources.