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Dec 10

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Stable release of Moodle plugins for 2.x

The Moodle development pace has been accelerating over the past two years, which is great. Blindside Networks has been updating the BigBlueButtonBN and RecordingsBN integrations for Moodle upon each release.

With the release of Moodle 2.4, we now have an update release that we’ve tested across all Moodle 2.x builds (2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and now 2.4). This 1.0.8 release has been tested for the past few months with a number of Blindside Networks customers and Moodle community users.

Maintenance development is managed with the moodle tracking system at BigBlueButtonBN and RecordingsBN.

Jul 9

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Updated BigBlueButtonBN integration now supports Moodle 2.3

We’ve updated our BigBlueButtonBN and RecordingsBN Moodle plugins to support Moodle 2.3.

Using this integration with Moodle 2.x, you can:

Create multiple activity links to on-line sessions within a course
Restrict students from joining a session until a teacher (moderator) joins the session
Launch BigBlueButton in a separate window
Create a custom welcome message that appears at the top of the chat window when joining the session
Specify join open/close dates for the session that appears in the Moodle’s calendar
Record a session (requires BigBlueButton 0.8-beta or later)
Access and mange recordings (requires installation of recordingsbn)

The following YouTube video to demonstrate how to install and use this BigBlueButtonBN and RecordingsBN to setup an on-line class within Moodle and later access (and publish/unpublish) the reocrdings.

http://youtu.be/ShB04IoNgk8

For more information, see our announcement in the Moodle forums.

Jul 6

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BigBlueButton 0.80 Released!

The BigBlueButton project announced the release of BigBlueButton 0.80 on June 19th.

This release marks the tenth release of BigBlueButton. A subset of the core developers Richard Alam, Marcos Calderon, Fred Dixon, and Gustavo Salazar — all full-time employees of Blindside Networks — worked on this release for over a year and did extensive testing with the community (there were four beta releases and three release candidates).

The main feature of this release was the inclusion of record and playback into the platform.

“We wanted to make this release as solid as possible,” says Fred Dixon, CEO of Blindside Networks. “Internally, we want each release to be better than the previous, and the bar was set pretty high with 0.71a. Working close with the over 1200 members on the bigbluebutton-dev mailing list, we continued to test and fix bugs until we had all the major functionality in place. Even when we though it was ready to release, we did three release candidates to make sure it was really solid. When people run BigBlueButton 0.80, we want it to just work.”

For more information see the release notes and install instructions.