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Online Collaboration Tools Comparison

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Collaboration Platform Recommendations

Multiple collaboration platforms are currently available to 番茄社区 Faculty, Staff, and Students. Each collaboration platform offers a variety of features and underlying technology that may make one platform somewhat more suitable than others for particular applications. The sections below indicate which platform is recommended for some of the more common applications.

 

Group Meetings (up to 300 participants): Zoom

Zoom is a highly scalable, easy to use meeting tool that allows many people to meet at the same time. This is the best option for meetings with more than two or three people.

Self-Serve

Video, Audio, and Text Chat

Number of Video Feeds

Telephone Access

Screen Sharing

Persistent Workspace

Typical Group Size

Guest Access

greentick greentick

49 max.

 yellowtick (2)

greentick blueline

2-300

greentick

 

Online Project Collaboration: Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a full-featured online collaboration suite that allows for ongoing projects to have a persistent work space that holds files, communications, and application integration in addition to all the normal features of a communications platform.

Self-Serve

Video, Audio, and Text Chat

Number of Video Feeds

Telephone Access

Screen Sharing

Persistent Workspace

Typical Group Size

Guest Access

greentick greentick

49 max.

 yellowtick  (3)

greentick greentick

5-1000*

greentick

 *Teams meetings will facilitate up to 10,000 attendees, but every attendee over 1000 will join in .

 

Additional Information

For additional information regarding collaboration technologies or working remotely, please visit: /systems/status/features/working-remotely.php or contact the Computer Help Desk.

 

(1) – Victoria Local         (2) – Long Distance         (3) – Configurable on demand