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BigBlueButton LTI Integration
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BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system that enables universities and colleges to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students.
These instructions describe how to install the BBB-LTI Plugin into a BigBlueButton server.
With this plugin you can
- Enable a BigBlueButton server to be a LTI provider
- With a LMS acting as a consumer, allow users to create and join meetings using LMS external tools
Development
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bbb-lti is a grails project that can be compiled using the bbb-web components installed in any BigBlueButton development environment.
To generate the war file
grails clean
grails war
Deployment
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Place the war file into the tomcat webapps directory and restart tomcat
sudo cp lti-0.1.war /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/lti.war
Configure the properties
sudo vi /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/lti/WEB-INF/classes/lti.properties
Edit the URL and Salt of the BigBlueButton server you are going to connect to (NOTE: Remove any trailing slashes from the URL!)
bigbluebuttonURL=http://yourbigbluebuttonserver.com/bigbluebutton
bigbluebuttonSalt=yoursalt
Edit the LTI basic information
ltiEndPoint=http://yourbigbluebuttonserver.com/lti/tool.xml
ltiConsumers=demo:welcome,consumer1:secret1
Restart tomcat
sudo service tomcat6 restart
When running on the BigBlueButton server, create the map to this new application on nginx
How to use the service
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You need:
1. A server running any LMS which is a LTI consumer compliant
2. A BigBlueButton 0.8 server running on a separate server (not on the same server as your LMS)
3. A server running the plugin (It can be your bigbluebutton server or any other java application server)
Add a new external tool
In the LMS create a new external tool using the parameters added in the configuration file
Ej.
Consumer Key: demo
Shared Secret: welcome
URL: http://yourbigbluebuttonserver.com/lti/tool.xml
The BigBlueButton roles are assigned according to the roles in the LMS.
MODERATOR
-Faculty
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Faculty
-Instructor
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Instructor
-Mentor
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Mentor
-Administrator
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Administrator
ATTENDEE
-Student
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Student
-Member
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Member
-Learner
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Learner
-Staff
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Staff
-Alumni
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Alumni
-ProspectiveStudent
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/ProspectiveStudent
-Guest
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Guest
-Other
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Other
-Observer
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Observer
-None
-urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/None
