Page Comparison

Overview 

A platform that provides a shared workspace to chat, share/edit files, and host video/audio meetings.

A live presentation and collaboration tool that shares audio, video, and presentations in a virtual class or meeting room. 

A virtual meeting space allowing you to engage with students (individually or in groups). 

An extension of the meetings function in Microsoft Teams that allows you to live stream content to large audiences. 

*Live events will only be available by request for special events.  

A video sharing service for uploading, organizing, and sharing content across the organization.  

With Stream enabled, you can record any Teams meeting or call to capture audio, video and screen sharing activity and save it to Microsoft Stream.

An enterprise communication platform which includes IM, audio, video, screen sharing, and meeting capabilities.

A cloud-based peer-to-peer software platform used for teleconferencing, telecommuting, distance education, and social interactions.

Recommended use 

• Recording training sessions 

• Video meetings 

• Group audio calls 

• Online teaching 

• Graduate thesis defense

• Online classrooms

• Meetings

• Webinars

• Team collaboration space for teaching and learning

• Online teaching

• Recording training sessions 

• Event broadcasting 

• Meetings

• Presentations

• Training sessions  

• Video meetings 

• Group audio calls 

• Meetings

• Webinars

Features 

• Breakout rooms

• Audio conferencing 

• Video conferencing 

• Screen sharing 

• All Teams users have access to set up a Teams meeting

• Ability to download meeting attendance reports

• Channel calendar

• Q&A 

• automatic Automatic hand raise gesture) detection

• Breakout rooms

• Screen sharing 

• Classroom feedback

• Polling 

• Participant chat 

• Co-hosting

• Virtual meeting rooms with optional recordings 

• Telephone call ins

• Lobby room

• Live caption

• Transcription

• Video streaming to YouTube, Facebook etc.

• Q&A

• Breakout rooms

• Polling

• Attendance log

• Chat

• Upload files and presentations

• Annotations

• Q&A 

• Screen sharing  

• Live captions 

• Downloadable video recording 

• Teams Live Events must be set up by IST due to a limited number of concurrent streams

• Organize videos by channel 

• Can be integrated with other O365 apps 

• Audio conferencing  

• Video conferencing 

• Screen sharing 

• incoming/outgoing calls as UW phone extension

• Chat

• Media/file share

• Raise hand

• Screen/application share

• Whiteboard

• Polling

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows

• Mac

• Linux

• iOS

• Android

• Windows

• Mac

• Linux

• iOS

• Android

Accessed via LEARN

• Windows

• Mac

• Linux

Accessed via web browser

• Windows

• Mac

• iOS

• Android

• Windows

• Mac

• Linux

• iOS

• Android

For details about supported systems, go to https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-requirements-for-Windows-macOS-and-Linux .

Resources 

See the IST’s Microsoft Teams knowledge base articles 

and

Microsoft’s what’s new in Microsoft Teams

See the WebEx knowledge base articles and the WebEx tool comparison chart

See the Keep Learning page on Bongo

and
IST’s Bongo knowledge base articles

Please contact the IST Service Desk online or 519-888-4567 ext. 44357

Visit the Stream Service page and Stream FAQ's 

See the Skype for Business knowledge base articles 

Visit the Zoom Help Center.