We performed a comparison between Blackboard Collaborate and GoToMeeting based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Zoom Video Communications, 3CX and others in Virtual Meetings."The solution allows me to connect and collaborate with my classes."
"It's easy to set up."
"Pricing is reasonable. It's not expensive. The pricing is one of the great selling points for the product."
"It was just chosen because somebody at the company said, "We need a meeting thing. Hey, go find a meeting thing." It wasn't me, but somebody else in the organization was like, "Alright, let's use GoToMeeting. It's free.""
"The solution worked well specifically for audio meetings."
"GoToMeeting's low latency is crucial because everybody is using VPN to connect to their PCs at work. The sound and video quality are solid, and the whiteboarding features were especially useful. The administrative side of it was fairly simple and intuitive to use."
"It works, it's reliable."
"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 product itself doesn't stand out against other options on the market."
"The solution could scale a bit easier if you need to add more people to meetings."
"GoToMeeting breaks down a lot. We're not sure if it's breaking down, but we start getting very erratic community channels. I don't know if it's because of GoToMeeting or if we're not buying enough bandwidth. Maybe it is just the infrastructure that it's running on. I'm not quite sure."
"Using GoToMeeting in a meeting-sized conference room is kind of a letdown. The camera is supposed to track the speaker and focus on that person so that they can be on the screen. That feature rarely worked. We tested it thoroughly, so maybe it was an issue with the size of the conference room. It may not be suitable for large conference rooms."
"The solution could always be more secure."
"Sometimes we'll run into issues where firewall rules aren't set correctly and won't work."
Blackboard Collaborate is ranked 12th in Virtual Meetings with 1 review while GoToMeeting is ranked 8th in Virtual Meetings with 6 reviews. Blackboard Collaborate is rated 8.0, while GoToMeeting is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Blackboard Collaborate writes "Great for online learning, and straightforward setup, however needs more hands-on tutorials ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GoToMeeting writes "It features low latency, which is crucial because everybody is using VPN to connect to their PCs at work". Blackboard Collaborate is most compared with Zoom, Google Hangouts and Webex, whereas GoToMeeting is most compared with Skype for Business, Adobe Connect, TeamViewer, BlueJeans Meetings and Webex.
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