We performed a comparison between Blackboard Collaborate and Google Hangouts based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Meetings solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The most valuable feature of Google Hangouts is its popularity. A lot of people use Google. Since the solution is from Google and many of us use Google solutions regularly, it is easy to use."
"Communication platform that's effective in project planning, project status communication, and virtual meetings. Setting it up is straightforward."
"The screen sharing is the most valuable feature. It ties in with Google docs and Google sheets so that we can work on a single document as a whole group of us at once. That's the biggest feature we rely on."
"The most valuable features are the chat features and the video conferencing features that enable more than two or three people to be connected at a time."
"Google Hangouts is easy to use and intuitive."
"I think that Google Meet allows for easy interaction and has additional features, such as background blurring, among others."
"It's good for conferencing with others."
"Google Meet has excellent audio quality, good images, and a robust set of features."
"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."
"The system can overload when too many try logging in."
"We faced outages when the user limit went over a certain number."
"I think the version that I'm using doesn't allow recording. I guess it's more of a licensing issue than anything else, and it needs to be improved."
"I would like to see more focus on features for interacting with the participants in a group chat, such as screen sharing."
"Google Hangouts has breakout rooms now, but not as extensive as Zoom, so that's one area for improvement. I mentioned that I like the Google Hangouts captioning feature, but that could be improved. For example, importing Filipino-English captions here in the Philippines would be great."
"The solution can be improved by integrating other tools."
"There is no recording feature in Google Meet. However, Zoom has the recording feature and we use it for any calls that require recording."
"Can be improved by including a larger library of video filters and adding custom filters."
"In the next release, I would like to see call recording made available."
"It would be ideal if they could include in the offering a virtual whiteboard for users when they are running meetings."
Blackboard Collaborate is ranked 24th in Virtual Meetings with 4 reviews while Google Hangouts is ranked 6th in Virtual Meetings with 51 reviews. Blackboard Collaborate is rated 7.6, while Google Hangouts is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Blackboard Collaborate writes "Useful in webinars, meetings and online classrooms ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Hangouts writes "A tool for personal use with good screen-sharing capabilities". Blackboard Collaborate is most compared with Zoom, whereas Google Hangouts is most compared with Zoom. See our Blackboard Collaborate vs. Google Hangouts report.
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