Miro for Student Engagement and Stakeholder Collaboration.
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
In online courses, we like to foster student engagement and collaborative problem-solving. We used to use Padlet, but the price has risen. Miro provides a free educator license, and with that, we are able to provide students with engagement activities. We also use it to collaborate with faculty and administration when we are working on a problem in an asynchronous situation.
Pros
- Asynchronous collaboration.
- Collaboration with graphics.
- Online voting.
Cons
- Miro has amazing training resources, but it's still hard to get a clear idea of how to add users where they can collaborate using a link vs. having to sign in.
- I would like to be able to lock some graphics in the workspace but allow users to manipulate or add to others.
- Miro helped my team to gather information from stakeholders to shape a process that had buy-in across the institution.
- Miro has saved us on costs to other products that have upped their prices. It's great because Miro has more and better features.
We are able to get stakeholder input on important topics and processes easily--either in a virtual meeting or asynchronously. We just send out the email with the link to the board. Before, we were limited to a certain number of boards or words or images with other products, and that is not the case with Miro.
Do you think Miro delivers good value for the price?
Yes
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
Collaborate Ultra's whiteboard feature was clunky and limited--and there was no way to save it and pass it around after the meeting ended. Padlet is great for educators and students to understand immediately how to use it. It's the known product on the market for student engagement. But Padlet's "free educator account" is now limited to three boards. Lino is my favorite tool for just student discussions. It is completely free and has more functionality than Padlet. However, Miro has more functionality than Lino and has a better look--a better product for impressing stakeholders. I can make individual, virtual worksheets for students using Miro and move students in and out of Miro projects as they work individually, collaborate, and then peer review.
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