Plugin / BigBlueButton

Blindside Networks
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

The easiest way to install is to watch this installation video on YouTube. Here’s an overview of the installation. Log in as an admin and click on the Plugins menu on the sidebar. Click Add new. In the search bar enter “bigbluebutton” and click search plugins. When you find the plugin called BigBlueButton by Blindside Networks click the install now link. Activate the Plugin. Click on widgets under the Appearance menu. Find the BigBlueButton Widget. Then click and drag it to either the right, content, or footer windows on the right of the screen depending on where you wish the BigBlueButton widget to appear. Click on BigBlueButton under the settings menu. Fill out the URL of where the BigBlueButton server is running (be sure to add /bigbluebutton/ to the end of the URL) and its salt. Then click on save changes. You are ready to begin creating meetings, and holding conferences.
Users join meetings using a joining form. This form can be shown in a site as a sidebar element or as a page/post. For setting up in the sidebar, add the bigbluebutton widget, as you do with any other, dragging the box to the position you want to. For setting the joining form up as a page/post, add the shortcode [bigbluebutton] right where you want the form to appear in the page/post. If there are pre-created meetings in wordpress, their names should appear in a listbox from which users can select. If there is only one pre-created meeting the listbox will not be shown and one button with the name of the meeting will appear instead.
The plugin gatters the much information it cans from WordPress, but what will be taken depends of the configuration. For registered users their registered name or username will be taken as Name. The BigBlueButton role (moderator/attendee) can be assigned automatically depending of the permission settings. This way a registered user in a role which permissions has been previously set would not be required nether for Name nor Password. For registered users whose role has ben set for requiring always a password, only the Password will be required. For anonymous users the Name will be always required, but again the Password requirment will depend of the configuration. If Moderator/Attendee role has ben set for them no Password box will be shown in their joining form.
Since version 1.3.4 it is possible to provide direct access to the meeting rooms by adding the meeting token ID to the shortcode: (eg. [bigbluebutton token=aa2817f3a1e1]). The joining form is the same, so with the right permission configuration users would be able to join meetings in one click.
The only way to show recordings to users is using the shortcode [bigbluebutton_recordings] in a page/post.
Make sure you are using BigBlueButton 0.8 or higher.
You must make sure that your url ends with “/bigbluebutton/” at the end. So as an example: Wrong – “http://example.com/” Correct – “http://example.com/bigbluebutton/”
You should enable the curl extension in php.ini.

Ratings

3.9
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Details Information

Version

1.4.6

First Released

01 Sep, 2010

Total Downloads

64,058

Wordpress Version

3.0.1 or higher

Tested up to:

4.8.11

Require PHP Version:

-

Tags

bigbluebutton open source opensource web

Contributors

blindsidenetworks J Federico

Languages

The plugin hasn't been transalated in any language other than English.

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