Tag Archives: BigBlueButton

New BBB front end

Replacing current Drupal6 front end for Big Blue Button with homegrown code derived in part from CTL Events calendar. https://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/bbb/    

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NERCOMP Webinar: Remote Control: How to Engage, Educate and Entertain Your Webinar Audience Monday, 09/30/2013 at 01:00 pm

The recording for yesterday’s session is now ready for you to view: http://nercomp.adobeconnect.com/p820420rnyb/ password: nercompvw My notes:   webinars are the future of presenting audience size,cost,reach,staffing, longevity, connectivity challenges detached from audience, uncontrolled environment, new tools, verbal only, no grounding … Continue reading

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BBB v.81RC

Downloaded and installed BBB version .81RC (Release Candidate) . Release notes: https://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/ReleaseNotes  

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Migrate BBB front end from Drupal 6.x to 7.x, add BBB v.8.x features

Migrate BBB front end from Drupal 6.x to 7.x, add BBB v.8.x features. Current BBB interface at https://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/bigbluebutton uses Drupal 6.28 and a hacked instance of the BBB Drupal module. Plan to move all to ETS “silk” server http://ctl.w3.uvm.edu/ So … Continue reading

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Big Blue Button roles and permissions

Some inconsistent and conflicting role based permissions in Drupal BBB module affecting some Faculty (most notably our own Director), causing inability to attend meetings. Fixed March 26. Reared its ugly head again early May for Nick Gingrow, UVM School of Business … Continue reading

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BBB Update

As promised, ETS has migrated the UVM installation of BigBlueButton to a more powerful server. We’re hoping this will alleviate some of the audio problems a few of us encountered. You can access the new server via the old address,http://bigbluebutton.uvm.edu/ . … Continue reading

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Big Blue Button users Pintauro, Henry, Atwood, Exler

Stephen J. Pintauro, Ph.D., Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, wrote: I would like to try using BigBlueButton in my NFS 243 (Advanced Nutrition) class this semester.  I mostly want to have my TA try it as a way of … Continue reading

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BBB Update 2012-09-24

Interest in using BB from Steven Exler (EPSCoR) and Ken Bechtel (Social Work). This prompted investing some time in fixing numerous little bugs and misbehaving features. Also tried a stress-test, hooking up 25 clients and seeing around 50% CPU usage. … Continue reading

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“I am wanting the use BigBlueButton for my Educational Technology class”

Carmen Petrick Smith, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education writes: I am wanting the use BigBlueButton for my Educational Technology class to video chat with a class of 6th grade students.  The 6th graders have netbooks and iPads.  Will this be … Continue reading

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BigBlueButton updates

updated from .8b3 to .80

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