BlueJeans Succeeds for Community College
March 24, 2020

BlueJeans Succeeds for Community College

Stephen Thomas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with BlueJeans

BlueJeans has become our corporate standard for staff meetings, internal trainings, and interviews. At this point, it's being used !by Student Services, Advising, IT, Human Resources, and especially Workforce Services. We have four campuses--using BlueJeans means that staff meetings, which used to have everyone drive from all locations, can save time (up to an hour each-way per campus) and money (no travel expenditures), plus have recordings of meetings! It has been really good for our organization!
  • Great audio and video quality
  • Easy to setup meetings, appointments
  • Handles groups of up to 20 easily
  • Love the whiteboarding features!
  • Would like an easy private chat feature
  • Android client could be more robust
  • Money saved on travel is huge (each staff meeting for one department alone saves 300.00!)
  • Better training outcomes than just conference calls
  • Better interviews versus phone calls
  • More personal interaction between administration and staff
Compared to the other products we have evaluated, BlueJeans was an easy choice. We have used Skype previously (and piloted Skype for Business), we looked at WebEx and also Zoom. We liked Zoom, but found BlueJeans pricing better. WebEx was more cumbersome and didn't like their bandwidth needs (although the 'requirements' and what actually works were different). BlueJeans (via Florida LambdaRail) was exactly what we needed.
BlueJeans really has been a game-changer for the college. We're not a large university but a community-college--having an easy video conferencing solution makes us much more efficient and saves us money! Also, its bandwidth requirements are easily met by almost any connected device--even over cell plans. Like I said, staff meetings with branch offices are one good example. Offsite interviews are another (again very low bandwidth needs). In IT we use it for staff training. The only real situation that we haven't been able to use it for (licensing-wise) is actual instruction for students (such as tutoring--which would be great!).

BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) Feature Ratings

High quality audio
9
High quality video
9
Low bandwidth requirements
9
Mobile support
9
Desktop sharing
8
Whiteboards
8
Calendar integration
8
Meeting initiation
8
Integrates with social media
Not Rated
Record meetings / events
6
Slideshows
7
Live chat
7
User authentication
6
Participant roles & permissions
6
Confidential attendee list
Not Rated