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Blackboard Collaborate vs GoToWebinar comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Blackboard Collaborate
Ranking in Virtual Meetings
19th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
GoToWebinar
Ranking in Virtual Meetings
18th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Virtual Meetings category, the mindshare of Blackboard Collaborate is 2.4%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GoToWebinar is 2.2%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Virtual Meetings Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
GoToWebinar2.2%
Blackboard Collaborate2.4%
Other95.4%
Virtual Meetings
 

Featured Reviews

YN
Teaching and Learning Systems Manager at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Useful in webinars, meetings and online classrooms
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.
RITA Conroy-Martin - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Marketing at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
Video library is a great tool and it enables good customization; feels a little antiquated and rusty
I like that recordings are available immediately, it's a great feature. I also appreciate being able to use the video library as a tool, and the integration of an API with other systems we have. We were able to build our own customer portal and then integrate into GoToWebinar with a seamless interface. People thought they were on our platform, but they were using GoToWebinar. Those are unique features that seemed to be very easy for our development team to integrate. I like that aspect of it. It also provides good visibility if somebody had seen a webinar that was useful. It's very easy to push them out. Registration is an easy process as is customization on the back end. We very rarely had technical issues running the webinars so it's a pretty robust platform overall.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution allows me to connect and collaborate with my classes."
"Document loading and annotation."
"The solution allows me to connect and collaborate with student live time, or asynchronously."
"This solution has provided an additional way to connect with students and they feel like it allows for participation in a variety of ways."
"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 software is easy to use, has clear navigation and structure, and is highly customizable from an administrators standpoint (I've administered and used it as a client)."
"All of their features are good. They are more or less equivalent to the competition. There's less disturbance, less jitter, the voice is always good even at a low bandwidth."
"We were able to build our own customer portal and integrate into GoToWebinar with a seamless interface."
"Scalability is good as you can host webinars with hundreds of participants without any lagging."
"GoToWebinar polls help me quickly gauge, upfront, the audience’s interest in topics and their current level of knowledge."
"Overall, this is a good product that is simple to use but I would rather use Webex for video conferencing."
"The interface is browser-based and simple, which is an advantage over other solutions."
"We were able to build our own customer portal and then integrate into GoToWebinar with a seamless interface."
"I can extract the activity and the attendance reports, along with every single question that was asked during the webinar, which is a feature that we highly value."
 

Cons

"The system can overload when too many try logging in."
"I occasionally had difficulties logging in because I think that the system was overloaded with too many people."
"I wish I could upload assignments from my Android tablet or iPhone, but I guarantee that specific feature is in the works."
"We faced outages when the user limit went over a certain number."
"Originally, I was disappointed in behavior of the early Ultra version. It did not exhibit to students what I am showing on my own machine."
"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."
"It's a little pricier than the others."
"GoToWebinar would be improved with the inclusion of support for video endpoints."
"The technical support is quite bad."
"The platform feels old and a little rusty, more could be invested into the look and feel of it."
"In comparison, I don't feel that GoToWebinar has the range of customization and it feels quite antiquated in comparison to Teams."
"The chat window and using polls is easier in Zoom than compared to GoToWebinar. Make it simpler and easier to publish polls on the fly would improve the solution."
"Some of my friends also use GoToWebinar to collect clients for affiliate marketing. In those cases, they found some features were missing with respect to some of the competition. And the worst part is the price."
"Some of my friends also use GoToWebinar to collect clients for affiliate marketing. In those cases, they found some features were missing with respect to some of the competition. And the worst part is the price."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"This is a free solution."
"It is a monthly subscription and the price is quite expensive if you're not paying annually."
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Company Size

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Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
 

Also Known As

Blackboard Mobile
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

University of Derby Online, Universty of Warwick, University of Liverpool, City College Norwich, Northumberland College, Mid-Kent College, Watson Pharmaceutials, Capella University, Shore Tel Sky, Lincoln PD, City of Somerville MA, Somerset County Council
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