Virtual Classroom - Video Conferencing & Online Meeting with BigBlueButton

The free plugin allows you to Add New maximum 2 BBB Rooms. To create unlimited rooms activate the Pro version on your site: https://elearningevolve.com/products/wp-virtual-classroom/

It is required that your BBB hosting server is up and running before you join a BBB room. This error is likely to show up when the default BBB test instance is not started from the BBB cloud. Please review this hosting guide to understand how to start the cloud instance: https://elearningevolve.com/blog/hosting-virtual-classroom-for-wordpress/

It is required that your BBB hosting server supports the BBB room in an iFrame for our Pro plugin else the room window within a page will display a 401 unauthorized error when starting a meeting. The solution to add the iFrame support on BBB hosting server is mentioned on Github: https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/issues/9998#issuecomment-678272306 Our list of recommended BBB hosts already support this feature: https://elearningevolve.com/blog/bigbluebutton-hosting/

After activating the plugin, click on "BBB Rooms" and "Add New" and give the meeting a title and fill out the room details.

• By default, each room will be on its own page, with the permalink listed under BBB Rooms -> All Rooms.
• A single BBB Room can also be inserted into any post/page using the [bigbluebutton] shortcode with a specified token in the shortcode in the format, [bigbluebutton token=z2xxx]
• There is also an option to insert multiple Rooms to any post/page where the user can select a specific room to join. To achieve this insert multiple tokens in the shortcode in the format, [bigbluebutton token=z2xxx,z2yyy]
• Users join meetings using a join room form. This form can be shown on a site as a sidebar element or as a page/post.
• For setting up in the sidebar, add the BBB Rooms widget, as you do with any other widget, dragging the box to the position you want it to be in.

Once you display the room join form on your preferred page or section on your site. Simply, share the website link of your page with your participants and they can join the BBB room directly from there.

By default, the recordings display under each room created under BBB Rooms -> All Rooms.

• To place recordings on a separate post/page, use the shortcode [bigbluebutton type=recording], with the room token of the desired recording e.g: [bigbluebutton type=recording token=z2xxx]
• To place multiple recordings on a separate post/page, use the shortcode [bigbluebutton type=recording], with the room tokens of the desired recording e.g: [bigbluebutton type=recording token=z2xxx,z2yyy]

Insert the token of your BBB Room that you would like the users to select from in the shortcode with this format, [bigbluebutton token=z2xxx,z2yyy]

• For non-logged in users: The Name & Access Code will be always required.
• For logged-in users: The login username will be taken as their Name. The Access Code field does not displays for logged-in users
• For logged-in users: To apply the Access Code requirement for a user role, you can customize the particular user role by adding the capability, join_with_access_code_bbb_room and remove the capability join_as_viewer_bbb_room.

You can install the "User Role Editor plugin" and update the capabilities/permissions from "Users" > "User Role Editor". See User Role Plugin Usage Screenshot: https://elearningevolve.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/bbb-room-user-roles-editor.jpeg

See our detailed step by step guide to learn this: https://elearningevolve.com/blog/how-to-allow-instructors-to-manage-bbb-rooms-on-wp/

• By default, the user who has created a BBB room and will always join their room as a moderator, this does not apply to others' rooms.
• The WordPress site administrators have the moderator access for all BBB Rooms.
• Additionally, you can customize your site user roles to add the capability, join_as_moderator_bbb_room for your preferred role to grant them the moderator access for all BBB Rooms like the administrator.

This feature is available in our Pro plugin. You can limit the max participants for all the rooms from BBB Rooms -> Settings -> Room Config. See Global Participant Limit Screenshot: https://elearningevolve.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/bbb-room-limit-participant-global.jpeg You can also override the global settings or set a different limit for each page by setting the max participants param with each shortcode that is added to a page. See Shortcode Level Limit Screenshot: https://elearningevolve.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/bbb-room-limit-participant-shortcode.jpeg

They need to login to their WordPress dashboard (e.g. https://mywpsite.com/wp-admin). From the dashboard they can manage the room from BBB Rooms menu.

This feature is available in our Pro plugin where the Room admin can set a date/time of room meeting to start for each of the rooms. See BBB Room Countdown Screenshot: https://elearningevolve.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/bbb-room-countdown-setting.jpeg

If a user has the capability to manage recordings, they will see a pencil icon next to the recording name and description. Click on the icon to start editing, and press enter to submit. A user can cancel editing by pressing the ESC key. To allow a user role to manage recordings add the capability, manage_bbb_room_recordings.