Blackboard Collaborate vs Google Hangouts comparison

"Document loading and annotation."

"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."

"The technical support team for Google Hangouts has been pretty responsive and could solve whatever challenges arise, within a day or two."

"The solution scales well."

"The solution's stability is the most valuable feature."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"Very good voice and video calling options."

"The group chat is a very good feature, where you can see all of the participants on cameras."

"It has efficient recording features."

"The ease of navigation is good, as we can easily share data and screens."

"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."

"Google Meet could be more secure."

"In the next release, I would like to see call recording made available."

"The improvement needs to be done as per customer requirements."

"They should increase the platform's session time beyond an hour."

"The scalability has room for improvement."

"We've noticed the product works better in Chrome and doesn't work as well in Safari browsers."

"The algorithm should be improved to automatically deal with poor connections in a better way."

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

"This solution is available for free with the opening of a Google account."

"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."

"I use the free version of the solution."

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

"I think there is a need for payment for licensing, but as students, we didn't have to pay for it when we were using it. Our professors were the ones paying for it since they needed to record the sessions."

"There is a need to make certain payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product and some other tools that are included in the suite offered by Google. Google Hangouts alone as a product is available for free."

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

"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."