Google Jamboard vs. Whiteboard.chat

Google Jamboard is ideal for live, synchronous sessions to support collaboration and engagement. It can be used for the entire class, small group, or independent work. Create a Jamboard for a simple student knowledge check, or annotation exercise, or sorting activity. Insert a Google document, spreadsheet, or presentation, and have students annotate the file. There are many types of active learning activities you can do with a Google Jamboard!

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Whenever the engineers & architects of my team require a brainstorming session, we normally use a whiteboard, as the enterprise does provide Miro licenses with associated. Hence, a whiteboard comes in handy when troubleshooting or discussing the requirements surrounding an application or technical infrastructure for a project. As it removes the dependency on requesting an additional Miro license, we use it. The board also loads faster than a Miro board.

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• Colorful and engaging designs and layout
• Freeform format
• Real-time collaboration without lagging or download wait-time
• Can be used for many different purposes-- business, education, personal, etc.

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• Team collaboration feature where multiple users can contribute at the same time.
• It has wide variety of tools that can be use for creative brainstorming.
• Whiteboard.chat has no license cost associated with it.

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• Shapes and sizes
• Handwriting
• Panel Zooming
• Slow loading when the board is big

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• The UI is lightweight and works well but can be more attractive.
• The templates available are quite generic and basic; themed templates can be added.
• Whiteboard navigation is mouse-dominated, but it also has too many hotkeys that make it confusing for the user. They can be easier.

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It's a tool that's easily accessible from your Google Suite. For a whiteboarding workspace, it provides a good basic platform. Multiple whiteboards can be created in one workspace, so you can share a session with multiple teams/plants. Compared to more advanced whiteboarding tools, it has limited features. You'll need to have access to the Internet to take full advantage of the collaborative workspace. The amount of storage space required for your session will use up your Google Drive quota.

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The application, although it loads faster even at slower internet connections, and is a good alternative to Miro boards, still requires some more room for improvement. During live sessions, when multiple users contribute to the board, the updates are openly visible to all. Perhaps a privacy feature that hides text, available to the board admin, would allow me to give a rating. Being from an ersecurity background, I think the app also requires a secure sign-up process with MFA.

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Miro is more user friendly, and interactive as compared to Google Jamboard. Advantages of using jamboard would be that since it's a part of the Google suite, individuals are more comfortable using the tool and tracking changes/updates. Both can be used for collaboration, and brainstorming. Miro holds more features, since we can add emojis, stickers, media content etc.

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I'd rate it lower than Miro but higher than draw.io and Lucidchart. The other two do not have a real-time collaborator feature for users; they have limited tools for designing and no provision for syncing with third-party apps. While whiteboard. Chat does provide a provision for the creation of JIRA or Azure DevOps tickets directly from a sticky note, like Miro.

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• supports active learning
• increases students engagement during the session
• bridges the gap between tutor and students

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• Because the app is lightweight and less expensive, it loads faster, saving time in meetings and when sharing links.
• Embeds easily with Confluence docs.
• Templates are more simple and no variety needs some improvements.
• Standardized custom templates are not saved; adding the save template feature would help.

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