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It's secure and you're able to get onto Zoom meetings with the teacher through Blackboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's hard for elementary school students to remember the steps to navigate these online learning tools without help from an adult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

All-In-One set up. Lectures, Notes, Assignment, Discussion Boards...it's all in there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Login challenges. Not always easy for all teaching and student staff to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Blackboard collaborate is a very user-friendly service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be difficult/tedious to look back on your previous posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Blackboard Collaborate has become our community college's go-to tool for many reasons:

*It is already present in each Blackboard class, so faculty can easily set up a Collaborate room for synchronous class sessions, student presentations in an online environment, virtual office hours, or small group meetings when students at a distance need to work on a project together. You may think any webinar tool can do this, but the presence of the whiteboard, file sharing, and breakout rooms makes it much more robust for teaching.

Almost all of our tutoring departments now have rooms set up for students who cannot get to campus to attend mandatory tutoring sessions for their classes, or for those who just need a little help. The tutor just sends the student the guest link to the room, and they set an appointment to meet. The students can share their work, allowing the tutor to see where they need assistance, and can make markup comments on the work for visual clarity. The sessions can also be recorded for the student to view later if they need to re-visit the topics covered.

More an more of our formerly ITV classes are switching to Collaborate, as they see the benefit to the students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having used the previous version of Collaborate before they left the Java platform, there is not much I dislike...if you used it then, try it again! However, I do miss the availability to invite more than one section of a class to a scheduled session. We do not have SAAS, so I am not sure if this is available in that version of Collaborate, but it was nice if we needed to hold an orientation or have a guest speaker to have the ability to invite more than one section to attend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used Blackboard Collaborate over that last several years. I have always found it to be easy to use and very user friendly. If you know the term "if it ain't broke don't fix it". Why should I use another one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I did not see any negatives. It is all positives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it works for presentations and small group discussions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don’t like that it loses functionality when groups get larger. It’s difficult to manage bigger groups Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to use and the feature that i like a lot is the breakout rooms for any group work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very pricey and sometimes the video quality is bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Blackboard provides a professional platform with Blackboard Collaborate for instructors and students to voice, video, and type chat. I like that I can add in new students so that I can create groups or meet individually with a student. I also like that it is possible to just voice chat or just type chat since I do not always have the opportunity to video chat with students and many students do not wish to video chat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Similar to Blackboard Learn, I find Blackboard Collaborate a bit difficult to use and not particularly user intuitive. I prefer using the Google Hangouts platform, though a bit less professional, because of how easy to use it is for my classes. However, as a student coming into the class, it is easy to use since they can simply use the four buttons at the bottom for video, voice, and type chatting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The options and user interface are great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The design is less user friendly than some other programs for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Collaborate has grown over the years and is almost to a really reliable product. I like that there is now a browser based version and that you can have breakout rooms! The polls, quizzes, and other functionalities have really improved the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are frequent needs to update your system at times to allow for this product to run. If you do not have IT privileges on your machine you might have to work with an IT person at your job. The web based version seems to avoid most of these downfalls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.