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Video Conferencing Comparison

This page compares Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Zoom by highlighting common features.

Table of Contents

Comparison
Share Content
Schedule from Gmail
Presenter Control
Screen Recording and Captions

Additional Resources

Video Conferencing Blackboard & Meetings Online Meetings & Office Hours in Learn Ultra

Microsoft Teams Room - Clarke 214:

🚥Epson Interactive Projector

Microsoft Teams Room - Clarke 202 and 221:

📺Viewsonic Interactive Viewboard

Conferencing apps are like remote controls, they provide the same basic functions but with very different buttons. We all have our preferences, but which is the right tool for the job?

Comparison

	Share Content	Schedule from Gmail	Presenter Control	Remote Control	Recording/Captions	Share Recording	Blackboard Integration
Microsoft Teams	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	OneDrive	✅
Google Meet	✅	✅	✅		CC only		✅
Zoom	✅	🔗	✅	✅	✅	Limited

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Microsoft Teams is the recommended video conference solution. All faculty, staff, and students have the ability to schedule and create virtual meetings with no meeting time limit. Teams Meetings are fully integrated into Blackboard.

Share Content

Teams, Meet, and Zoom all allow you to share content from your screen, window, or application.

Schedule from Gmail

Teams and Meet links are easily scheduled from your VWU Gmail account. You can invite guests and schedule rooms.

Meet:

Teams:

The Zoom for Gmail add-on allows you to start an instant meeting or schedule a meeting with your email participants in Gmail.

Presenter Control

Teams, Meet, and Zoom all allow you to designate who can share their screen, window, or application to present.

Microsoft Teams Meeting Options

In Teams, you can allow everyone, people in your organization and guests, specific people, or only you and your co-organizers to present.

For remote control in Teams, you can Request Control while another person is sharing to take control of their screen during a meeting.

Google Meet Video Call Options

In Meet, you can allow or restrict participants to share their screen to present.

Google Meet Co-host Options

In Meet, you can also assign a co-host to present their screen, record the call, admit visitors, mute participants, and assign other co-hosts.

Google Meet does not provide native remote/request control functionality.

Zoom Advanced Sharing Options

In Zoom, you can assign allow all participants to share their screen to present.

The Remote Control feature in Zoom allows you to take control of another participant's screen during a meeting.

Screen Recording and Captions

Teams and Zoom each allow you to record and transcribe your meetings.

In Teams, captions and transcription can appear in the selected language for everyone in the meeting.

In Meet, users can turn captions on after they Join a Meeting.

In Zoom, you can automatically record meeting on the local computer and enable automated captions.