record attendance

[Christian Reuschle]

Hi,

is there a way to time-stamp the attendance of each participant from the point he/she enters the conference until the end, including interruptions? A simple ascii-file should do the trick, each new participant gets a new line, with time-stamps for entering and leaving the conference.

Thanks a lot,

Christian

[sd...@distancelearning.cloud]

If you have access to the BBB server, the events.xml will have all the student join and leave events.

 

https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-events <--- this ruby gem can extract the data in a more readable form

 

regards,

Stephen

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[Christian Reuschle]

Hi Stephen,

thanks a lot for pointing me to bbb-events. I'll have a look. Though BBB is hosted for us through NextCloud by an external provider, so I don't think I have access to events.xml (I'll have to ask).

Any other idea if that turns out to be not an option?

All the best,

Chris

[DistanceLearning.Cloud]

the external provider may be able to provide you automated attendance reports as a feature, many providers do.  Not sure if your using moodle, but this can be integrated into the front end for teachers to see reports.

Also, a last resort if you have the URL/ security salt to make api calls, is to simply call getMeetingInfo on the meeting every 20 seconds.  it returns the names of active participants in xml format, you can take this raw responses and generate a report with a little coding.

regards,

Stephen 

[Michael Plotsker]

This is a feature in Teams. I get a csv in the teams chat for the class after the class ends.

Would this function be able to be added to BBB? Attendance records are very important metrics for conferencing in education especially for schools that work off a clock hour system.

Maybe adding a button upon exiting the session to download the attendance record would work? We use bbb in canvas.

Thanks

Michael Plotsker

[Christian Reuschle]

Hi Michael,

that would really be a good feature. I think too, that more detailed attendance records are important in educational conferencing. So I would ask the same question to the BBB developers: Would this function be able to be added to BBB? Maybe through a button upon exiting the session to download the attendance record? We use BBB trough NextCloud.

Many thanks,

Chris

[sd...@207me.com]

So the user client (web browser) does not have the attendance info.

The server needs to run some post processing after the meeting ends currently to extract the login events into events.xml where it can be used to generate a csv list, or pdf attendance report etc…

Once this is generated its possible to make a callback to a “front” end like moodle/canvas/greenlight, and with the appropriate modification in the front end, the attendance data can be accessed for the teacher or moderator.

In 2.3 these reports should appear within a few minutes.

 

Regards,

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[Vasyl Ostrovskyi]

It seems that all events can be collected by WebHooks. So you (or someone else) can write an independent web-application or plugin to existing systems to add this functionality.

Bbb-events is cool but it requires server access, for webhooks you need API access (secret key) and can put your app on other server.

Regards,

 Vasyl

30.04.21 15:39, sd...@207me.com пише:

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