We performed a comparison between Blackboard Collaborate and Polycom RealPresence Clariti based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Meetings solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"It's on-prem, which is great."
"The most valuable feature is its integration with solutions like Zoom and Teams for endpoints. The picture quality is high, and the conference sessions are stable."
"It does a good job of integrating with other software."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is its integration with solutions like Zoom and Teams for endpoints. The picture quality is high, and the conference sessions are stable."
"Could have a wider range of use cases."
"The customer needs this platform to be a little bit more customized."
Blackboard Collaborate is ranked 24th in Virtual Meetings with 4 reviews while Polycom RealPresence Clariti is ranked 15th in Virtual Meetings with 3 reviews. Blackboard Collaborate is rated 7.6, while Polycom RealPresence Clariti is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Blackboard Collaborate writes "Useful in webinars, meetings and online classrooms ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polycom RealPresence Clariti writes "Increases the ability of Teams when collaboration is required". Blackboard Collaborate is most compared with Zoom, whereas Polycom RealPresence Clariti is most compared with Cisco TelePresence and Cisco Meeting Server. See our Blackboard Collaborate vs. Polycom RealPresence Clariti report.
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