Add Live Sessions with an LTI Video Conferencing Tool

Add Live Sessions with an LTI Video Conferencing Tool#

Tags: educator how-to

Add a Live page to your course where you can host video sessions and learners can join them from the course navigation.

You can currently add Zoom and BigBlueButton for live sessions. Both integrations use LTI 1.1.

Find the Live settings#

  1. In Studio header, select Content, then Pages & Resources.

  2. On the Live card, select the settings icon.

    The Live card on the Pages & Resources page.

  3. Enable Live from the toggle on the top right of the settings modal.

  4. Select Zoom or BigBlueButton.

    The Live settings with Zoom selected.

  5. Complete the steps for your selected tool.

Configure Zoom#

First, create LTI credentials in Zoom:

  1. Add the Zoom LTI Pro app to your Zoom account.

  2. Open the app configuration and add a credential.

  3. Name the credential and select LTI 1.1.

  4. Copy the generated LTI URL, LTI key, and LTI secret.

  5. In the credential settings:

    • Set Email or Employee Unique ID Attribute Name to instructor_email.

    • Add the domain of your Open edX Learning site to Approved Domains. For example, use learning.example.com if that is where you view your course.

Then return to the Live settings in Studio:

  1. Enter the Zoom values in the matching fields:

    • Enter the LTI key in Consumer Key.

    • Enter the LTI secret in Consumer Secret.

    • Enter the LTI URL in Launch URL.

    • Enter the email address for your Zoom account in Launch Email.

  2. Select Save.

The Live page now appears in the course navigation. Course staff can schedule or start Zoom meetings. Learners can join those meetings.

Zoom displayed on the Live page in a course.

Configure BigBlueButton#

BigBlueButton offers commercial, and self-hosted options. The configuration shares the usernames and email addresses of learners and course staff with BigBlueButton.

  1. Get LTI credentials from your deployment or hosting provider.

  2. In the Live settings, select BigBlueButton.

  3. From Select a plan, select Commercial/self-hosted.

  4. Enter the LTI credentials.

  5. Select Save.

For deployment help, see the BigBlueButton documentation:

The Live page now appears in the course navigation. Course staff can create BigBlueButton sessions. Learners can join those sessions.

BigBlueButton displayed on the Live page in a course.

Maintenance chart

Review Date

Working Group Reviewer

Release

Test situation

2026-07-31

Aamir Ayub

Verawood

Fail

2025-04-13

Docs WG

Sumac

Pass

07/03/2025

Docs WG

Sumac

Fail