Review of Miro from the higher education space
November 30, 2024
Review of Miro from the higher education space
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
I am a university professor. I use Miro two ways, one for research and one for teaching. Teaching is the more interesting use case. I teach design in engineering and it is heavily representation-i.e. diagram and drawing-based. Miro allows me to create draft representations that my students can modify. This has been highly successful due to the flexibility of the Miro platform and the fact students can work together either in-person or remotely.
Pros
- Real-time interaction
- Balance between simplicity / ease of use and having a full feature set
- Very flexible so that it can be configured for many tasks
- Very large spaces are possible which is great when teaching a large class
Cons
- Setting up teams and projects on Miro is really arcane and unintuitive. I constantly have to Google how to manage these.
- Miro seems to be adding a lot of features very quickly and I don't have time to keep up with all of it. I worry they will cross the complexity threshold like many other tech firms and ruin a good product.
- Finding projects is tough when you have a lot of them. A better way to organize them or just some sort of index page would help a lot.
- Increased ability to interact whether in person or remotely which makes managing projects considerably easier.
- I work in higher education, and the intuitive interface makes training time minimal. Students take to it readily so it can be immediately integrated into classes.
- The nearly infinite size of the space makes managing complex research projects that evolve over time much more visual than other project management methods.
Miro has significantly and positively enabled interaction with remote colleagues. I use Miro in research as well as teaching, and it is becoming our go-to site for project diagrams and management. All of us are very comfortable with Miro and we use it to stand up new projects constantly, even if these are just in the trial phase.
- Google Jamboard, Figma and Vibe
Jamboard was really clunky and didn't work well. I haven't used Figma very much but it looks like it is a potential Miro competitor and I'll keep it in mind if Miro becomes too feature-ridden for ease of use. We use a Vibe board with Miro in teaching classes a lot, and it is very helpful for giving real-time feedback to students.
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?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Miro again?
Yes
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