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Not sure which conferencing tool to use for online meetings or calls? Use the table below to choose a tool based on your needs.

See also:

Note

Care must be exercised to manage and protect privacy during meetings held remotely. Whether you are the host or a participant, take note of these policies for enhancing confidentiality:

Microsoft Teams

Tip
Recommended tool for meetings, chats, internal phone calls

WebEx

Tip
Recommended tool for online teaching, learning, and

learning

meetings

Bongo virtual classrooms

Tip
Recommended tool for online teaching and learning

Microsoft Teams Live Events*

Microsoft Stream

Skype for Business

Tip
Recommended tool for external phone calls

Zoom

Tip
Recommended tool for online teaching, learning, and meetings

Overview

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

Info
The maximum number of users depends on the feature you're using. See Microsoft's guide on Teams limits for more information.

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

Info
A

maximum of 1000 users can attend a WebEx meeting.

standard WebEx licence includes

1000 seat Meeting room
Webinar licence
Cloud storage

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

Info
A maximum of 150 users can be invited to a virtual meeting and only 10 webcams can be active at a time.

An

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

Info
A maximum of 10000 users can attend a Teams Live Event.

*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.

Info
A maximum of 300 users can be added to a Skype for Business online meeting.

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

Info
A

maximum of 300 users can be added to a Zoom meeting.

standard Pro license includes:

300 seats meeting rooms
(Larger size meeting by request)
Unlimited time
Cloud storage

A Basic license includes:

100 seat room
40 minute limit
Local storage

Recommended use

Note
By default, recorded Teams meetings can be edited and downloaded by all Team members. To restrict access, update the video permissions in Microsoft Stream and select the ‘Owner’ checkbox next to your Team name. Read our how-to article on how to restrict video permissions in Microsoft Stream.

Recording training sessions
Video meetings
Group audio calls

Online teaching
Graduate thesis defense
Online classrooms
Meetings

Webinars

Small webinars
Team collaboration space for teaching and learning
Recording lectures

Online teaching

Recording training sessions

Event broadcasting

Meetings
Presentations
Training sessions

Video meetings
Group audio calls

Meetings
Webinars
Online teaching
Graduate thesis defense
Online classrooms
Small Webinars
Team collaboration space for teaching and learning
Recording lectures

Support resources

See 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

You can also email rt-ist-itms-collab@rt.uwaterloo.ca
(with WebEx in the subject line)

See the Keep Learning page on Bongo and
IST’s Bongo knowledge base articles

You can also email learnhelp@uwaterloo.ca or call 519-888-4567 ext. 41744

See the Skype for Business knowledge base articles

See IST's Zoom knowledge base articles

You can also email rt-ist-itms-collab@rt.uwaterloo.ca
(with Zoom in the subject line)

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

Info
All meeting attendees can share audio/video.

Q&A
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.
Guests

Q&A
Breakout rooms
Polling
Attendance log
Chat
Upload files and presentations
Annotations

Q&A

Screen sharing

Live captions

Downloadable video recording

Organize videos by channel
Can be integrated with other O365 apps

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

Info
Only live event producers/presenters are able to share audio/video to prevent audience interruption.

Audio conferencing
Video conferencing
Screen sharing

incoming

Incoming/outgoing calls as

UW

University of Waterloo phone extension

Chat
Media/file share
Raise hand
Screen

/application share

Windows

Mac

sharing Whiteboard Polling Q&A Breakout rooms Classroom feedback Participant chat Co-hosting Virtual meeting rooms with optional recordings Telephone call-ins Lobby room Live caption Transcription Video streaming to YouTube, Facebook etc. Guests
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