Overall Satisfaction with Miro
I am using Miro when teaching my students (including the apprenticeships scheme) and encouraging my colleagues to use it. I find it to be a wonderful tool to teach software development aspects such as requirements analysis or UX. Through exercises I am running with students I am facilitating, above all, their teamwork and perspective-taking ability. Also, as I recognise Miro to be a tool more and more popular in the industry (that was confirmed by my colleagues working in very successful companies around the world), my aim is to provide students with a skill that improves their employability. I am also managing and supporting people within my team. I encourage my colleagues to use Miro for teaching and research collaboration within the organisation.
- Miro has a range of templates to use. It provides a very solid foundation to teach prospectus computing professionals.
- It is universal, which makes it good to use in different domains - I was introduced to Miro by a team-building consultancy company using LSP®.
- I am not only teaching students about, let's say accessibility, but I also train them in the tool that improves their employability.
- Works on mobile too!
- It is fairly easy to use (although there are still some aspects I need to understand) and has, by the look of it, a very supportive community associated with it.
- As mentioned before, consider adding some more templates.
- Add an additional way of categorising templates e.g. by the profession that uses them the most often.
- I believed I saw someone using tabs for different teams (like in a spreadsheet) but I could not find it on my board. That would be a very useful feature - if I could give teams of students to access different tabs so they can focus and work just there (without disturbing others).
- Supports team working.
- Provides me with easy-to-use templates.
- Enables me to create other templates and/or share mine with others.
- Gives students a good feel for how things work in the industry.
Miro has greatly impacted collaboration during my remote work with students, this summer and also running the project with my colleagues. Also, simply for mapping and sharing the ideas during ideation. I learned about Miro during online training on very hands-on methodology and it worked perfectly well. That is how I knew I could use it for my purposes.
Do you think Miro delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Miro's feature set?
Yes
Did Miro live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Miro go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Miro again?
Yes
- MURAL (formerly Mural.ly), Google Jamboard and Airtable
I came across both Mural and Airtable but do not know enough about them yet. In terms of Jamboard - my answer is to provide templates. I also appreciate that Miro offers a free license for academic purposes.