STROMANZ / BigBlueButton-Ilias-Plugin

BigBlueButton Plugin for ILIAS LMS

Forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/bigbluebuttonil/

About

This is a ILIAS Plugin which allows the creation of BigBlueButton Virtual Classrooms inside of ILIAS.

Prerequisites

BBB

At first you need a working installation of BigBlueButton http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/.
The following data from BBB is required to configure this ILIAS Plugin:

• public/private URL
• public/private port
• BBB security salt

ILIAS

It is assumed you already have a ILIAS Intallation up and running.

Installation

ILIAS <= 5.2

On your ILIAS Server:

• copy the content of this folder into <ILIAS_directory>/Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject/BigBlueButton
• log in to ILIAS as root and go to the administration page
• select Modules, Services and Plugins in the menu on the right
• hits the Services tab and ILIAS will show a service list
• look for the Repository and hit the Show Details link that is located next to the title
• look for the BigBlueButton plugin on the table and hit the update link
• when ILIAS has updated the plugin, hit the activate link that will appear instead of the update link
• now hit the configure link and enter your
  • public/private URL
  • public/private port
  • BBB security salt
• finally you can create "Big Blue Button" Virtual Classrooms as regular repository object

ILIAS 5.3, 5.4

On your ILIAS Server:

Note: it is assumed that you'already in ILIAS web root directory

• mkdir -p Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject
• cd Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject
• git clone https://github.com/Minervis-GmbH/BigBlueButton-Ilias-Plugin.git
• mv BigBlueButton-Ilias-Plugin/ BigBlueButton/
• cd BigBlueButton
• rm -rf .git
• log in to ILIAS as root and go to the administration page
• select Plugins in the menu on the right
• look for BigBlueButton from the table of plugins and click a drop down button
• install and activate
• now hit the configure link and enter your
  • public/private URL
  • public/private port
  • BBB security salt
• finally you can create "Big Blue Button" Virtual Classrooms as regular repository object

Compatibility

Tested with ILIAS

• 4.3.1
• 5.0.x
• 5.1.2
• 5.2.1
• 5.3.16
• 5.4.6