Blackboard Collaborate vs Google Hangouts comparison

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

"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."

"I find the sound quality of Google Meet a valuable feature. You can join Google Meet with just your phone. You only need the link of the meeting to join."

"Google Hangouts is user-friendly. It supports low internet bandwidth."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"I appreciated having the basic features like screen sharing and camera options."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"It's integration with Google is the valuable feature."

"The solution is stable."

"The most valuable features are the chat features and the video conferencing features that enable more than two or three people to be connected at a time."

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

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

"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."

"There is no recording feature in Google Meet. However, Zoom has the recording feature and we use it for any calls that require recording."

"Maybe they should offer more security features."

"Sending documents and other things is not an option."

"It would be great if this solution could be added to smart TVs. We would also like the ability to broadcast to a YouTube channel when having a meeting or session using this solution."

"There is no delete option for messages which could be an added feature in a future release."

"There could be more precise instructions for beginners using the solution."

"Google Hangouts could work on making the service better for slow connections."

"The scalability has room for improvement."

"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."

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

"I use the free version of the solution."

"For individual use, there's no license requirement as such. For storage or some other purposes, if I go beyond 15 GB, then I need to buy something."

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

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

"We are a small team and a small organization such as ours just uses the free version of Google, so there's no cost associated with Google Hangouts at the moment."

"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."