We use Drupal as the basis for many of our projects, building collaboration and communication portals. Video-conferencing with BigBlueButton is an essential part of this experience.
think modular developed together with our partner WITS a new general framework module for the integration of video-conference providers for Drupal and the related BigBlueButton handler that allows for integration of BigBlueButton as a video-conference solution into the Drupal CMS.
Potentials and features
With this integration you can, among others, leverage the following features:
- Manage BBB meetings from a Drupal portal solution
- Provide join-links for registered and anonymous users
- Provider calendar views and outlook integration for events and meetings
- Develop flexible registration and enrollment processes (automation included)
- Implement standardised and integrated feedback forms
- Adjust granular permission for access to meetings, recordings, reports ...
- Build an e-commerce portal around BigBlueButton (e.g. to sell trainings)
- and so much more ... the sky is the limit
In Drupal, all things are very generic - so that you can build whatever you want. With this module, we also follow a generic approach. In this session, you will learn how it enables you to build your own solution. So make sure to join this session!
The framework and all modules are already accepted as a stable solution on drupal.org.
think modular is committed to maintain and further develop this framework, which currently consists of the following modules:
| Module | Purpose | Type |
| Virtual Events | Generic framework module to allow Drupal to integrate with different video-conferencing providers. | Mandatory |
| Virtual Events BBB | BBB integration part: You will need this to use this module with BBB. | Mandatory |
| Virtual Event BBB Local Keys | This integrates the well-known Drupal Key module with this solution, that allows you to securely save your BBB URL and key inside of a Drupal site. | Mandatory |
| Social Virtual Event BBB | This module provides some advanced integration functionalities for BBB into the Drupal distribution Open Social. It provides a number of features that are essential for usability. | Optional |
The module should be installed with composer, as it will require some third party libraries, that you would have to install yourself otherwise. In this session, we will demonstrate the capabilities of the module, and also show you, how to use it.
Target groups for this session:
- Trainers, Moderators and Event and Conference Organisers that look for a technical solution to manage BBB events, or more general a conference and collaboration platform.
- Site builders that want to learn how to integrate the best open source video-conferencing solution with the most flexible open-source CMS.
- Drupal-Developers that want to enhance Drupal with Video-conferencing.
- BigBlueButton Providers that look for a modern framework to organise and manage BBB-events.
This is amazing work! Thank you for presenting this, my cooperative, Agaric, builds Drupal sites and we offer training. I host and instance of BBB on a WordPress site at communityBridge.com - only because there was a plugin already. It will be a great to be able to add BBB to many Drupal sites we have built!!!
For a good community experience, I also recommend the Drupal Distribution OpenSocial (https://www.drupal.org/project/social), which works perfect with our modules. This site is also built with OpenSocial btw ...
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