Tag Archives: bbb
BigBlueButton Updates, tweaks
Firefox latest releases have become more aggressive about disallowing mixed http and https content on a single page. This caused the BigBlueButton Blackboard LTI to soft-fail until user manually overrode mixed content restriction. I was able to force BBB to … Continue reading
Email friendly BigBlueButton URLs
Edited our homegrown BBB front end so that it accepts “Join This Meeting” URLs that can be pasted into email messages or web pages. Example https://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/bbb/?c=bbb&m=join&id=104&role=Join+as+attendee If referenced meeting not running, page refreshed every minute until meeting starts. ToDo: … Continue reading
BBB0.90ß
Downloaded code, made local modifications, fixed the bob-lti. BBB uses nginx as a front-end proxy to tomcat7. Consequently, when the tomcat hosted LTI module attempt to access its own REQUEST head, it sees http://127.0.0.1:8080, the behind the proxy tomcat7 address, not … Continue reading
BigBlueButton .90ßeta
A week or so ago, CDE set up a demo of BB Collaborate conducted by somebody from www.elluminate.com . While waiting for the CDE people to get everything up and running, I browsed the BBB web site and low and … Continue reading
Big Blue Buttton front end completely overhauled, needs testing
Completely rebuilt from ground up. no longer Drupal dependent. Record meeting feature finally available. https://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/bbb
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/
BBB v.81RC
Downloaded and installed BBB version .81RC (Release Candidate) . Release notes: https://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/ReleaseNotes
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
“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
BigBlueButton updates
updated from .8b3 to .80