How to limit max allowed users in a conference room

[Bernat Moragas]

Hi all,

I'm looking how to limit the max users allowed in a concrete  classroom, because they have to do 1 to 1 exams ar exercices. It is possible?

I didn't find any information regarding it. :(

Cheers,

Bernat

[Ghazi TRIKI]

Hi Bernat,

Please use the maxParticipants parameters when you use the create API. You can check it here in docs http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/dev/api.html#create

Thank you,

Ghazi

[Bernat Moragas]

Hi Ghazi,

I'll check it later. 

Thanks for the advice.

Cheers,

Bernat

El dv, 19 oct 2018 a les 12:26 Ghazi TRIKI <ghazi.n...@gmail.com> va escriure:

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Bernat Moragas
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[Chad Pilkey]

The maxParticipants property will limit the number of people that can join a meeting, but I wouldn't recommend using it because there are some drawbacks to it. If you set it to "2" and two students are the first to join, or the teacher disconnects briefly and a student sneaks in, then BBB will block any new joins. There's also no "waiting area" so if someone tries to join as the third person they will be blocked in a non-user-friendly way.

A better method would be to tightly control access to the meeting in the front-end because that is where all of your business logic should live. It's a harder to implement solution, but it could theoretically do whatever you need it to do without touching the BBB server.

There's also a third option that might fit your needs. If the idea is to take a class of ~15 people and do a 1-on-1 examination with each you could allow them all to join the meeting and then start a single 1 person breakout room with the student being examined. Doing it that way would allow the main room to be a waiting room.

[Bernat Moragas]

Hi Chad,

I just set the bigbluebutton.proporties to 2 ( http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/admin/configuration-files.html).

I like your second option. I'm going to try to do it, but it would take longer.

Regarding the last one,all the students have to be online at the same time, but in this case it's not possible.

I was thinking to do something like Greenlight but integrated with Moodle, so the students can create his own room and record  video.

Now I'm looking how to do it, any help would be appreciated. :)

Cheers,

Bernat

El divendres, 19 octubre de 2018 20:14:56 UTC+2, Chad Pilkey va escriure:

[Chad Pilkey]

I don't think Moodle and Greenlight can be integrated together. If you have an external authentication system like LDAP connected to your Moodle server then I think you could use the same authentication system for both front-ends, but that's about it as far as integration. I'm not super familiar with Greenlight so I'm not sure exactly how to set an authentication method.

[Bernat Moragas]

Hi Chad,

Sorry about my english...

I mean, I would love to give to the Moodel student the posiblity to create a new room ( like Greenlight) and then save the video in the correct Moodle topic like BigblueButtonBN, Moodle plugin is doing.

I hope that helps to clarify a bit.

Cheers,

Bernat Moragas
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Missatge de Chad Pilkey <capi...@gmail.com> del dia dl., 22 d’oct. 2018 a les 16:59:

[Chad Pilkey]

Ah, we faced a similar problem of "how do we let students have group meetings" and Greenlight was the solution that we developed for it. The Moodle plugin (and all or most of the other front-ends) will only allow Teachers (or other similar roles) to create meetings and there's no easy way to open the permissions. I'm not very familiar with Moodle, but if you had the students creating recordings from Greenlight you could have them post a link to the recording back in to Moodle.

[Bernat Moragas]

Thanks, that looks like a really good idea. 

The only thing is that they will have to do more steps In order to finiah the process,but I will give a chance to it. ;)

Thanks for that advice.

Cheers

El dl, 22 oct 2018 a les 20:23 Chad Pilkey <capi...@gmail.com> va escriure: