GoToMeeting on Campus
January 29, 2020
GoToMeeting on Campus
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with GoToMeeting
We had an enterprise license for our entire higher education campus. I am in the AV department so we supported the end users (as well as using it ourselves). Primary features we liked where ability to record and bridge phone users to computer audio users.
- Ease of use of on-screen controls (similar to other similar products so adoption is easy)
- Phone to computer audio bridging
- Recording only included shared computer content-not video. Not great for employment searches or guest speakers to classes
- Website made it hard to find the client to download. They were pushing you to use web interface but we prefer the program to be on our computers (in the dock on Macs)
- The ability to invite remote lecturers to join our classes with a minimal commitment of their time has been great. Having a reliable and easy way to do it makes it more likely our students will benefit from course content like this going forward.
- Google Hangouts, Zoom and Skype
The ability to centrally manage the accounts made GoToMeeting a good choice. Users also seemed to generally be familiar with it and this made them more likely to try it and continue using.
Skype is a nightmare in that everyone has an account but as the original user names were not your e-mail address, every time you try to support a Skype call most of the time the person spends trying to remember their user name and password.
Zoom is comparable and we use it across campus now- it has an excellent integration to Active Directory so fewer passwords to manage.
Google (chat/hangouts) has been hit or miss as to how it integrates with our on-campus Gmail accounts.
Skype is a nightmare in that everyone has an account but as the original user names were not your e-mail address, every time you try to support a Skype call most of the time the person spends trying to remember their user name and password.
Zoom is comparable and we use it across campus now- it has an excellent integration to Active Directory so fewer passwords to manage.
Google (chat/hangouts) has been hit or miss as to how it integrates with our on-campus Gmail accounts.