HI everybody,

The comparison of Zoom and Bluejeans from a participant's & facilitator's perspectives was super-useful.? Does anybody have experience with both Zoom and Microsoft Teams?? I have a client whose IT department is saying that Microsoft Teams is more secure and therefore preferable.?

Thoughts?? Experience?

Thanks!

John

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Zoom is a freeestanding videoconference app and it does that job really well.? In particular the breakout room function is very good, and annotation is possible.
MS Teams is part of the overall Microsoft architecture and integrates very well with the rest of the MS world if that's the world an organisation lives in.? It is a million miles better than Skype for Business, probably the worst app of its type ever.
So for a group working systematically in the world of Teams, access and participation are very good.? You can mimic breakout rooms simply by setting up meetings through different Team members, and moving from one to the other is very smooth giving participants more control than in Zoom.? However I am today about to work in Teams with a group of people from different organisations and there the permissions etc. are more problematic and different people have access to different functionalities.
There are dozens of apps to add? and this contributes to the characteristically overcomplicated Microsoft feel.? The Invision Freehand whiteboard is not bad but has to be added as an app and I've had problems with loading it.? There are several poll apps for instance and you can find most things including a closed caption feature.
My summary:? Teams is great for facilitating sessions within an organisation using the Microsoft environment (the facilitator can be added as a guest to the Team).
Zoom is still the best all rounder if you are bringing together people from different organisations.
Best wishes, Simon

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Hello John -

You are probably looking for a very detailed comparison (like the one between Zoom and Bluejeans) with technical references. I can only give you a short experienced-based comparison:

1. most universities and business organisations (I work with) use MS Teams (for security reasons but also because Microsoft offers them a very good package deal). It's suitable for small team meetings (of 4 people) and for lectures/webinar kind of formats. The whole infrastructure that comes with it is probably the reason why many organisations go for it. (Infrastructure as in lots of possibilities to integrate tools, create quizzes, have sub-groups, use European servers if wished for, etc). I don't know what a Zoom professional account offers in this regard, I only use a basic licence. MS said they would provide some sort of breakout group functionality but I am not up to date - it should have been provided by May or so). Also, MS Teams is usually linked with Moodle so that you can switch between the two interfaces easily, which universities offer.

2. public organisations and universities use WebEx (for security reasons and for financial reasons, it's a bit frustrating, it's the worst learning experience for users - from my experience, but obviously the "safest" one as the least used one; after the Zoom bashing students refused to use Zoom, for example, but as Zoom offers the better conditions for interactive classes, they mostly (have to) use it again...)

3. Zoom is still preferred for interactive learning and facilitation of interactive sessions and tolerated by unversities (not by public organisations I work with) due to the breakout groop function and the fact that you can see more participants (than for example in Teams or WebEx)

4. a technical issue: I pre-assigned breakout groups on Zoom for a session with 22 people yesterday and it was a bit stressful. I could move participants between breakout groups but had to do it manually and that took quite some time, plus, it did not always work. From my experience, the lack of flexibility and the instability of tools and Internet is a major challenge. In interactive sessions with certain target groups I have to use a lot of different formats and tools to keep them motivated and to keep them attentive; for older target groups it's challenging because they have often no proper equipment or simply cannot handle the technology and therefore do not even try it, out of fear). But I realise point 4 was not what you were asking for here :-)

Greetings :-)

Christina

HI everybody,

The comparison of Zoom and Bluejeans from a participant's & facilitator's perspectives was super-useful.? Does anybody have experience with both Zoom and Microsoft Teams?? I have a client whose IT department is saying that Microsoft Teams is more secure and therefore preferable.?

Thoughts?? Experience?

Thanks!

John

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Hi Mike
My starting point is always 'go where the participants are'. As a 'platform agnostic' I look at what people are used to using and aim to use that.? That's particularly true for small numbers of sessions or one off events where you cannot expect much investment of time in learning a new tool. All of the platforms can do a good job (Zoom, Teams, Bluejeans, WebEx etc.) if the facilitator invests properly in the preparation.

Hi all

+?Teams video quality is very good.?

- Teams lacking breakout feature.
- At a time, you can see maximum of 4 people in the video calling (including yourself). Not yet came across the option to configure more than 4 people at at time.

Cheers
Cipson