Web Conferencing Comparison
This chart compares the functions of the web conferencing tools available to the GW community.
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Blackboard Collaborate |
WebEx |
Zoom |
MS Teams |
Google Meet |
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Goto |
Blackboard Collaborate | ||||
Common Use Cases |
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Teaching Sessions, Share Lectures, Classroom Breakout Sessions |
Team meetings, Live Events for internal and external contacts, and other Many-to-Many needs, unified external/internal phone client |
Teaching Sessions, Team meetings, Live Events and other Many-to-Many needs |
Team meetings, Team chat, Casual Audio-Video Chat |
Casual Audio-Video Chat |
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Calling Internally to University |
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Calling Outside University |
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Teaching Sessions |
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Training or teaching with break-out sessions |
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Training or teaching with in-session polling, quizzes, exercises, or tests |
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Casual, on-the-fly Instant Messaging |
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Casual, on-the-fly audio chat |
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Casual, on-the-fly video chat |
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Scheduled Meetings |
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Meeting where all participants might need to speak |
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Invite guests lectures who do not have a GW account |
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Meeting or discussion where one or more participants needs (or prefers) to attend by phone |
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Webinars or Events requiring registration |
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Key Benefits |
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Available to |
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Anyone who is teaching or enrolled to take a course in Blackboard |
Staff, Faculty, Student, Wage, Affiliate |
Staff, Faculty, Student (Wage and Affiliate in Zoom Grouper Group with Approval) |
Staff, Faculty, Student, Wage, Affiliates |
Staff, Faculty, Student, Wage, Alumni, Affilates, Organizations |
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Access/Setup |
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Google Calendar Scheduling Add-on | |||||
Dial-in (toll number) option | |||||
Limitations |
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Max. # of participants with base account |
250 Regular Scale Session / 500 Large Scale |
1000 Meetings / 3000 Live Events (max 2 concurrent at 3000, 1000 otherwise) |
300 |
300 Users in a Meeting / 20 Users in Private Chat |
250 |
Number of participants viewable on screen per page |
5 |
25 |
49 |
49 |
49 |
Max. # of participants, add-on (available upon request) |
3000 two concurrent Licenses, 1000 otherwise. |
500 webinar/1000 webinar (requires a license request) |
NA |
NA |
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Important Features |
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Record Session |
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Automatic Transcriptions of Record Session |
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Chat |
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Share File |
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Share Screen |
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Share iPhone or iPad Screen |
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Polling |
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Whiteboard |
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Breakout Groups |
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Reactions |
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Q&A |
Available in Events only |
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Real Time Closed Captions |
Available upon request |
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Blur Video Background / Virtual Background |
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Live Captioning |
Available upon request DSS |
Available upon request |
Available upon request |
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Personal Room |
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Desktop Application option |
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Mobile Application option |
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Security | |||||
Lobby / Waiting Room |
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Meeting can be locked |
Only course members can join a session unless professor gives a guest link to an outside person |
Resources
Instructional Technology Lab
The Instructional Technology Lab (ITL) team offers expertise and guidance to instructors who need assistance with Blackboard and other instructional technologies they use for teaching.
Information Technology
General information, help and training materials for:
Academic Center
801 22nd Street, NW B101
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: 202-994-GWIT (4948)
[email protected]