Blackboard Collaborate vs Google Hangouts comparison

"One of the features that people enjoy is the whiteboard, providing opportunities for academics to present content and for students to contribute. The platform also allows for the creating of different rooms, enabling large classes to break into smaller groups for discussions. Students can then return to the main classroom to share their opinions. It integrates with LMS."

"The solution allows me to connect and collaborate with my classes."

"Document loading and annotation."

"The facility is always online and very easy to share the screen using the solution."

"It has efficient recording features."

"Google Hangouts is an excellent tool."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"I find it valuable that Google Hangouts is a lightweight tool that doesn't take up a lot of memory and doesn't require a lot of resources."

"The installation part of the product is easy since one generally needs to use a browser to use the product."

"The most valuable features of the solution are its ability to allow the sharing of screens and the way it allows a user to take control of another system."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"We faced outages when the user limit went over a certain number."

"If there were maybe more tutorials outside of what I'm aware the university is suggesting, I would take more tutorials on effective ways to deliver content. I come from the industry and content was always needed when people that were observing were smart and involved and decision-makers instead of so passively just trying to pass the course. In my imagination, the tutorials would be a tool where the learners themselves can have much more hands-on learning during a Collaborate session."

"The system can overload when too many try logging in."

"One area where I see room for improvement in Google Hangout is the voice quality during meetings."

"Google Meet could be more secure."

"I would like to see support for showing virtual backgrounds."

"Google Hangouts is not as feature-rich as Slack. Adding more features to this solution would make it better."

"We don’t have any complaints."

"It is not as stable. They can improve its stability."

"We purchased a videoconference system called Zoom. We want to see if Google Hangouts has the ability to integrate our Zoom device to use it with Hangouts and meet directly."

"I would like to have a whiteboard feature, where I can draw a sketch or diagram and show it to the people in the meeting."

"There is an annual subscription to use this solution."

"The screen-sharing feature is the most valuable feature."

"I believe my company has a yearly license for Google Hangouts, but I'm not sure because this is a corporate account, so I don't have the details."

"We are using the free version of Google Hangouts."

"Google Hangouts has reasonable pricing, but I don't use the paid version because I only have a small budget, though you get more features from the paid version."

"I pay $6 per user per month for Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Hangouts."

"I don't need to buy Google Hangouts separately because it comes free with Google Workspace, and it is also available for my personal Gmail ID."

"We access the solution through Google Workspace. It is inexpensive to use."