Blackboard Collaborate vs Zoom

• The interactive whiteboard allows instructors to load PowerPoint or other presentations into the display which can then be highlighted, marked on, typed on, or used for real-time presentations with students.
• Blackboard Collaborate features a robust desktop sharing component that allows instructors to share their entire desktop, portions of their desktop, or just specific applications with participants. They can also pass control over those applications to session participants. This is very useful for demonstrating software programs that session participants may not have on their own computers.
• The user feedback buttons in Blackboard Collaborate allow session participants to express a variety of emotions during online sessions through buttons that represent a smiling face, thumbs down, and a confused face. In a face-to-face classroom, instructors who notice a confused face on some of their students know to stop and re-explain a concept. These digital faces provide the same interaction in the virtual classroom.

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• Its ease of use is incredible. This helps us with clients and internal use.
• The whiteboard feature and recording features are so seamless and we constantly find ourselves using it.
• The settings are very easily adjustable and help us when accommodating a large number of individuals.
• We've found that the audio is incredible because of the individual connection required.
• Also, we love the ease of integrations with other products such as Google calendar.

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• Takes advantage of features available in Firefox and Google Chrome browsers for application sharing; these features are not yet available in Safari or Microsoft Edge.

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• I may not be seeing it in the app, but I would love if Zoom was able to provide details about what kind of device someone is using when I try to support them. Examples include what version of a browser someone is using, what OS they're running - anything that prevents me from having to ask the same questions over and over again.

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• Collaborate Ultra has been the most effective for us for training faculty virtually.
• Faculty have been excited that they can have a remote guest speaker in their classroom, and all they need to do for set up is to e-mail that guest speaker a link to join the session.
• Collaborate Ultra is beyond useful for faculty to meet with online students who are either across the country, or even in other countries, with tools that really help to focus on course work.

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• The cost of Zoom at the level that I use it is affordable.
• I've been able to have seamless meetings with attendendants all over the world at the same time.
• It's cheaper than GoTo Meeting

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