Tag Archives: BigBlueButton
BBB keeps rolling along
Upgraded from 1.1ßeta to 1.1-RC from BBB: It’s been almost four months of testing since we announced the availability of 1.1-beta on Jan 12, 2017. See: https://bigbluebutton.org/2017/01/12/1-1-beta/. A big thanks to everyone who reported issues with the beta and helped … Continue reading
BBB 1.1ß
installed, needs some configuration before taking it ‘live’ . This release offers three main enhancements: 1. Breakout Rooms: https://youtu.be/q5N-lcocJss (3:41 minutes) 2. Live Closed Captioning: https://youtu.be/vDpurrMgal0 (1:23 minutes) 3. Faster Desktop Sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTFuEvmEqB0 (3:10 minutes)
BBB 0.90 finally released and installed
Notes to myself Make sure /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/bigbluebutton/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties contains the line bigbluebutton.web.serverNoSslURL=http://bigbluebutton.uvm.edu Make sure sftp:/waw:@bigbluebutton/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/lti/WEB-INF/classes/lti.properties reduces to bigbluebuttonURL=https://bigbluebutton.uvm.edu/bigbluebutton bigbluebuttonSalt=xyxyxyxyyxyxyxyxyxyxyyyxyxyyyxyxyxy ltiEndPoint=bigbluebutton.uvm.edu ltiConsumers=xxxxxxxxxxxx ltiMode=extended beans.bigbluebuttonService.url=${bigbluebuttonURL} beans.bigbluebuttonService.salt=${bigbluebuttonSalt} beans.ltiService.endPoint=${ltiEndPoint} beans.ltiService.consumers=${ltiConsumers} beans.ltiService.mode=${ltiMode} nginx index.html files read
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
BigBlueButton upgrades, tweaks
Installed yet another BBB build. Informed by firewall issues around Wowza server, had Network services fiddle with some settings to improve WebRTC audio. Continued working with kdbeard to solve off-campus issues. Dealt with disk full condition on server
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
Server hosting BigBlueButton exploded
On Aug 6, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Frank Swasey wrote: Wes, Yesterday morning /etc/cron.daily/apt applied a libc update to morpho. While that shouldn’t have caused a problem, it might have. NetWorker is not working (it throws an invalid pointer error … 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