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Heather V.

Instructional Design and Faculty Development Coordinator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/30/2020

"Great Educational One-Stop Video Tool"

5/5

What do you like best about VidGrid?

I love that VidGrid has so many features in one place that take the place of what used to require many separate tools: video recording, editing, hosting, captioning, LMS integration, and quizzing are just a few of the features available all in one platform.

Their support is amazing...enter a question on the chat screen, and someone is answering your question within minutes! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VidGrid?

There are few downsides, but if I have to choose, I would say that it would be nice to have more robust video editing features, such as the ability to record over a portion of the video when information needs to be added at a later date or to edit audio. That being said, part of the beauty of VidGrid is that it is user-friendly to faculty. Adding too many features may make it less so.

I would like to see videos that are embedded in Blackboard copy from one section to another. I am not sure whether this is a Blackboard or a VidGrid problem, though.

I wish it had a screenshot tool with a place to host photos, not just video Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VidGrid:

You will be hard-pressed to find a company with better features and support for the price! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VidGrid solving and how is that benefiting you?

It started with Closed Captioning videos. That was the biggest problem we set out to solve with VidGrid, and it has been the most reasonably priced solution for that we could find. The added benefits, however, have been that it is user-friendly, so faculty don't mind using it, video is easily edited, they host the videos for us, and it integrates with Blackboard. Perhaps the biggest benefits have been that faculty know they can hold students accountable for viewing the videos by adding questions about the videos that the students are required to answer before viewing to the end and that these quizzes automatically transfer to the Blackboard grade center. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Glenn Oslin of VidGrid

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Thanks for the awesome review, Heather! I am happy to say the few downsides you mentioned will be addressed in 2020 (aside from screenshot tool, sorry! Will add to our feature requests). We can't wait to show what we have been working on. Thanks for being an awesome customer.