We performed a comparison between Blackboard Collaborate and Zoom 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."Document loading and annotation."
"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."
"The solution allows me to connect and collaborate with my classes."
"All you need is a laptop or mobile device and a connection to the internet."
"Zoom is easy to use and does not require much network bandwidth. Additionally, it does not require a lot of configuration which is very good."
"The interface is good and integrates well."
"The most valuable features of Zoom are the quality of the video is better than other solutions and they have a recording option that is useful. Additionally, it helps to collaborate with other organizations."
"The product has video access which is a great feature."
"The whiteboard capabilities are great."
"Zoom is useful for virtual meetings."
"The most valuable features of Zoom are its ease of use, screen sharing, and annotations."
"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."
"There was a situation not long ago when there were some security fears. Some users had somebody else take control of their calls. They might have addressed these issues now, but the security needs to continue to be upgraded."
"The video quality of the free version might not be as good as the enterprise edition."
"Zoom could improve by extending the one-hour maximum session time in the free version."
"They should consider increasing the time limits for free users."
"When the firewall is turned on, there have been issues with congestion that affects performance."
"Zoom will be cheaper if you want to have a general meeting, but if you want a real enterprise version, Cisco will be cheaper."
"I would like to see an integration with Microsoft."
"It would be useful, for my purposes, to be able to run a meeting like a webinar where the solution doesn't show all of the people on the actual call. It would be great if it had the flexibility to allow people to "hide" themselves from the meeting, or to give the person running the meeting the capability of choosing who could be seen, or not."
Blackboard Collaborate is ranked 24th in Virtual Meetings with 4 reviews while Zoom is ranked 1st in Virtual Meetings with 201 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, Cisco TelePresence, TeamViewer and Cisco Meeting Server. See our Blackboard Collaborate vs. Zoom report.
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