Blackboard Collaborate

Blackboard Collaborate

117 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Blackboard Collaborate	Score9.8 out of 10	N/A	Blackboard Collaborate is an online, collaborative learning platform well-suited for the education industry and corporate learning needs. It includes features such as screen and application sharing, web conferencing, and integration with Blackboard Learn.	$300 per year

Pricing

Blackboard Collaborate

Classroom: $300.00
per year
Department: $9000.00
per year

Pricing Offerings
Blackboard Collaborate
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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	Blackboard Collaborate
Considered Both Products	Class Technologies, Inc Verified User Chose Blackboard Collaborate I believe Blackboard Collaborate is a great app/platform, but like similar products; it should be used in tandem with alternatives. Blackboard Collaborate has features that I find in other apps/platforms, yet some are easier to learn and use. Such is the case with the feature … Incentivized Helpful? Mariann Hawken Acting Director, Instructional Director in Information Technology at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate Blackboard Collaborate is ideal for teaching & learning whereas Webex and Zoom are business-focused. While Collaborate may lack some user-desired features, it more than makes up those features with its focus on participant/learner engagement. For example, polling is easier, … Incentivized Helpful? Akhilesh Arya Assistant Professor at Geetanjali Institute of Technical Studies, Udaipur (Higher Education, 51-200 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate Breakout rooms is the best feature of Blackboard Collaborate, and this is the reason why we are using it for project classes. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Collaborate Canvas LMS is a far more superior product, in fact, many schools switched to it from Blackboard while 0 switched from Canvas to BB. The reason is that Canvas is a Cloud-native tool and it is faster at implementing new features, fixing bugs, etc. It has a bigger advantage in the … Incentivized Helpful? Rita Wheeler Instructional Technology Coordinator in Information Technology at Moberly Area Community College (Education Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate As far as cost, Zoom is much more economical to us. For full features, Blackboard has a few more tools available than Zoom. Incentivized Helpful? Rita Wheeler Instructional Technology Specialist and Adjunct Instructor in Professional Services at Moberly Area Community College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate Blackboard Collaborate is more expensive and does not perform as well with our internet connections. Incentivized Helpful? Becca Guler Learning Specialist at University of Houston-Clear Lake (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate Bb Collaborate has educational tools unavailable in Skype or Google Hangouts and is available without the student needing to have an account or log-in information. The upswing is incredible, with highly interactive video tutoring capabilities. It is also integrated with a tutor … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Collaborate Blackboard is just the most widely known software. All of them have issues and glitches, but Blackboard is well supported. Incentivized Helpful? Joseph Axenroth LMS Administrator at Westfield State University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate Google Hangouts and Skype, while free and easy to use, do not provide the focus on educational settings that Collaborate Ultra does. They also do not provide the features for making a session accessible to attendees. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Collaborate While Skype for Business is nice, it takes a few times to try and get into meetings. Also, Blackboard Collaborate has more tools that allow for the user to write on the whiteboard or on uploaded PowerPoints. Finally, the ability to place people into mini groups and allowing for … Incentivized Helpful? Carly Pietrzyk, PhD Teacher/Curricululm Consultant at Robert Morris University (Education Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate We have used Skype for Business for meetings, however it does not have nearly the amount of features available as Collaborate and does not function as seamlessly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Collaborate Blackboard LMS and Collaborate's integration as well as support from one vendor makes it a first choice if you are already using Blackboard as your LMS. Incentivized Helpful? Mallory Rice Staff Assistant in Customer Service at Harvard Medical School (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate Blackboard collaborate offers so many more features that help make a presentation successful. It offers the option for people to speak or chat at specific times, therefore keeping interruptions at a minimum during classes, but still lets people "raise their hand" should … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Collaborate Blackboard Collaborate is the only program of this kind that I have used so far, therefore I cannot compare against other programs that are alike. But, I would say that I will be using this tool for a long time, because it offers me almost everything that I need as of right now. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Collaborate I've other webinar tools like Go to Meeting and Adobe...I would say they are all comparable. Incentivized Helpful? T. Alex Manly Course Management Systems Coordinator in Information Technology at Arkansas Tech University (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate Blackboard Collaborate came bundled with our LMS. Incentivized Helpful? Danielle Davis Professor in Legal at Monroe College (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate I prefer Blackboard because it is user friendly. Incentivized Helpful? Allison Kallo Instructional Designer in Information Technology at University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate Blackboard Collaborate meets the needs of a conferencing tool. It is especially great used in sync with other Blackboard products. Incentivized Helpful? Jeremy Bond Temporary Faculty at Central Michigan University Global Campus (E-Learning, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate When Collaborate was chosen, other products investigated included Wimba (a predecessor), Big Blue Button, TinyChat, and others. Collaborate, though requiring a greater financial investment, was superior to other options in essentially all respects. Its integration into our … Incentivized Helpful? Laura Abercrombie Adjunct English Professor at Polk State College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate Nearpod does not allow for the same type of synchronous environment that Blackboard collaborate does. Further, Nearpod, as the name suggests is best suited for a face-to-face classroom that is, preferably, one-to-one. While it has some of the same functions as Nearpod, … Incentivized Helpful? Katie Sabourin Educational Technologist at St. John Fisher College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Blackboard Collaborate Blackboard Collaborate is a great fit for an academic setting compared to some of the other products. Its layout is intuitive and user friendly, while providing many advanced features that other tools do not offer. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Collaborate While other products can handle more active participants in a meeting at one time, Blackboard Collaborate has a much simpler and easy-to-use interface that makes it an ideal product for one to many presentations. It integrates fully with multiple learning management systems to … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Blackboard Collaborate
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (31 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (8 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (6 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (1 ratings)