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BigBlueButtonImage Added, accessible via Moodle, is an effective video conferencing tool for presentations, seminars and lectures. This tool allows you, for example, to share presentations with your students or start polls. Students can participate not only by using their microphone (audio) but also via a live-chat. It is also possible to allow additional people to participate by sending them an "external guest access link". The capacity for each meeting is around 300 participants. 

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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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1. Selecting the type of the Meeting (Instance type):

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• add further information under Description. Tick Display description on course page, if you would like the description to be visible under the name of your room.

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In Activity/Room settings you can create a Welcome message which will be shown in the chat after somebody joined the session. You can decide if you want that students have to wait for a moderator can  before they can enter the room; and you can create a waiting room.

If you have chosen Room/Activity with recordings in the instance type settings above, you can authorize that the Session can be recorded.

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You have to activate this function by choosing the checkbox Create guest access link for external participants.

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Further settings need to be configured directly on the activity page of the session (further information: Using the external guest access link).

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Uploaded files are automatically visible and downloadable for students in Moodle. If you do not want this, please upload the file directly in BigBlueButton (see Uploading a presentation). By doing so, you also have the option to upload further files or even during the session.

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6. In the section Participants you first have to define which Moodle course participants may join the session.

• All enrolled participants
• Participants with a specific Role in the course
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  Next, you can set what role they should be given during the session:

• Moderator: has extensive permissions and leads the session (teachers, tutors)

• Viewer: participates in the session and can be given more permissions by the moderator (students)

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7.In section Participant's Rights you can grant viewers (≠ moderators) certain rights to actively take part in the session. These are:

• Share webcam: let other participants see your webcam image
• See other viewers webcams: see webcam images of all other participants, not only moderators'
• Share microphone: make your audio available to others
• Send public chat messages: to chat with all other participants
• Send private chat messages: send private messages to other participants (sending messages to moderators is always possible)
• Edit shared notes: use the shared notes feature
• See other viewers in the users list: see the names of other participants in the session

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These settings can be adjusted later during the session. Read here.

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Note
We recommend to always set both a start and end date so that server resources are available for other sessions.

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9. Further options to customise the activity can be found in the sections: Common module settings, Restrict access and Tags. These options include the availability of the activity on the course page and the group mode, for example.

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