BlueJeans for Team Meetings & Office Hours
February 26, 2020
BlueJeans for Team Meetings & Office Hours
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with BlueJeans
We use BlueJeans for distributed team meetings (4-7 people) as well as for 30-80 people recorded office hour discussions. In the team meetings, all members use video & audio simultaneously, while in the office hours the majority of the members are observing the audio/video feed of our 1-2 presenters but typically only use audio or chat to ask questions one at a time. It allows us to have synchronous meetings with distributed team members. (Every member of my team logs in from a separate location).
- BlueJeans allows me to send out a single URL and it "just works" for the majority of users in a web browser.
- It does a great job with small meetings where everyone is participating, allowing multi-window views of all participants.
- In large meetings, it would be nice to have a moderation queue feature where individuals could put in a request to speak, and a token would be passed down the queue allowing one at a time to speak. Currently, we auto-mute the participants and ask them to coordinate un-muting themselves one by one.
- As a remote worker for an online MOOC, BlueJeans is critical for all meetings.
- Google Hangouts (Classic)
In the past, we have used Google Hangouts, which worked well for recording office hours and streaming the feed out via YouTube. However, now that Georgia Tech has a site license to BlueJeans, I find it easier to sign in and use via our SSO service.