We performed a comparison between Blackboard Collaborate and Google Hangouts based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zoom Video Communications, Cisco, TeamViewer and others in Virtual Meetings."The solution allows me to connect and collaborate with my classes."
"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."
"Document loading and annotation."
"It has efficient recording features."
"The facility is always online and very easy to share the screen using the solution."
"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."
"The most valuable feature has been the ability to present presentations during meetings."
"The solution scales well."
"Google Hangouts is an excellent tool."
"It's integration with Google is the valuable feature."
"Google Hangouts is very quick and easy to use, and the quality is very good."
"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."
"We faced outages when the user limit went over a certain number."
"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."
"I think the version that I'm using doesn't allow recording. I guess it's more of a licensing issue than anything else, and it needs to be improved."
"It is not as stable. They can improve its stability."
"The algorithm should be improved to automatically deal with poor connections in a better way."
"There should be more space for multiple users at a time so that multiple people can connect, can share, and even transfer control to another colleague, employer, student, etc."
"Collaboration in Google Hangouts has room for improvement compared to Microsoft Teams. On Microsoft Teams, you can share a document directly and work on that document all at once, in real-time, with other team members, which isn't the case with Google Hangouts."
"The user interface is an area with shortcomings and needs improvement."
Blackboard Collaborate is ranked 24th in Virtual Meetings with 4 reviews while Google Hangouts is ranked 6th in Virtual Meetings with 51 reviews. Blackboard Collaborate is rated 7.6, while Google Hangouts is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Blackboard Collaborate writes "Useful in webinars, meetings and online classrooms ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Hangouts writes "A tool for personal use with good screen-sharing capabilities". Blackboard Collaborate is most compared with Zoom, whereas Google Hangouts is most compared with Zoom.
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