We performed a comparison between Blackboard Collaborate and Zoom based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zoom Video Communications, Cisco, TeamViewer and others in Virtual Meetings."One of the features that people enjoy is the whiteboard, providing opportunities for academics to present content and for students to contribute. The platform also allows for the creating of different rooms, enabling large classes to break into smaller groups for discussions. Students can then return to the main classroom to share their opinions. It integrates with LMS."
"Document loading and annotation."
"The solution allows me to connect and collaborate with my classes."
"like Zoom because it's a very simple program. We have more success using Zoom with clients, partners, and everybody else. Everybody seems to be able to get Zoom. Some people struggle with Teams."
"Zoom is easy to use and makes it easy to communicate with people remotely in meetings."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to connect to and conduct meetings."
"Zoom has facilitated our remote and hybrid meetings, particularly in the context of our agile processes such as scrum. In the past, estimating story points required physical presence in a room, where we would use visual cues or hand gestures. We can create polls with Zoom and share them with team members for direct input. The recording feature is also good. Additionally, features like whiteboarding allow for specific collaboration sessions tailored to different team members' needs. Auto-scheduling meetings and integration with Microsoft Outlook make organizing and attending meetings effortless. Overall, the product is good and convenient."
"There is a free version of the solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward as this is a cloud application. It only takes a few seconds."
"This video conferencing product is easy to use."
"Primarily during the period of problematic travel, the solution enabled us to connect with customers, clients and even colleagues and to share our thoughts, ideas and information."
"The system can overload when too many try logging in."
"We faced outages when the user limit went over a certain number."
"If there were maybe more tutorials outside of what I'm aware the university is suggesting, I would take more tutorials on effective ways to deliver content. I come from the industry and content was always needed when people that were observing were smart and involved and decision-makers instead of so passively just trying to pass the course. In my imagination, the tutorials would be a tool where the learners themselves can have much more hands-on learning during a Collaborate session."
"Zoom is not a good product for webinars."
"Zoom could improve by being more user-friendly."
"Sound is not an issue, however, with video I've always had issues when using the free service."
"Zoom's drawing tools could be better integrated."
"The interface requires some slight improvement in that it could better show the meeting attendees."
"If Zoom could be more secure, that would be better. Security is always a highly sensitive matter for everyone today."
"When you are connected to one device and you're going to log into another one, Zoom should ask you to transfer without having to disconnect you."
"They could address the product's limitation of the free version, particularly the 40-minute time constraint on meetings."
Blackboard Collaborate is ranked 24th in Virtual Meetings with 4 reviews while Zoom is ranked 1st in Virtual Meetings with 199 reviews. Blackboard Collaborate is rated 7.6, while Zoom is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Blackboard Collaborate writes "Useful in webinars, meetings and online classrooms ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zoom writes "Easy to use and provides good video and sound quality". Blackboard Collaborate is most compared with , whereas Zoom is most compared with Webex, Skype for Business, TeamViewer, Cisco TelePresence and HCL Sametime.
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