BBB integration with Open EDX - help

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mdcy...@gmail.com

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Jan 8, 2019, 2:24:09 PM1/8/19
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I saw a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByV95k8r8-A

But i couldn't find any tutorial. 

Does anyone could explain how to do it?

Chad Pilkey

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Jan 8, 2019, 3:12:33 PM1/8/19
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The video is using LTI to communicate between BBB and edX. You'll need a BBB server with our LTI module installed (http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/lti.html) and then add it as an LTI component to edX. I think the correct documentation for LTI in edX is this, https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-partner-course-staff/en/latest/exercises_tools/lti_component.html.

mdcy...@gmail.com

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Jan 13, 2019, 8:35:27 AM1/13/19
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Thanks Chad

Honestly I'm lost.

Any tutorial to follow? I read the instructions from both links
1) I installed LTI on BBB
2) It seems that LTI is already included in open-edx, it's about configuring but the steps are very generic
not sure how to proceed

any tutorial step by step you could recommend? 
I know Fred did the integration but, i couldn't find any tutorial from him

Chad Pilkey

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Jan 14, 2019, 4:48:52 PM1/14/19
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LTI is a common interface that LMSs and tool providers both implement so that they can talk to each other. EdX definitely supports LTI out of the box, but they seem to require a lot more steps to set it up than other LMSs. I think for BBB LTI you need to start here, https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-partner-course-staff/en/latest/exercises_tools/lti_component.html#creating-an-lti-passport-string. Using the sample output from the BBB documentation, the passport string would be something like "bbb-tool:bbb:b00be971feb0726fa697671c9cf2e883". The "bbb-tool" part can be changed to any identifiable name and the key and secret need to be changed for your own values from the BBB server. Once you've got the passport string the next step would be to add the passport string to the course configuration as mentioned in the 10.21.2.2 section. Next is to enable LTI in the course (10.21.3). The final configuration step is to add the LTI component to the course (10.21.4). There's two key parts with the final step and that's the "LTI ID" which needs to be the same ID from the passport string ("bbb-tool" if continuing the example) and the LTI URL which is the "URL" line from the BBB output (something like http://test-install.blindsidenetworks.com/lti/tool with your own domain substituted in).
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