Class for Zoom vs. Google Workspace for Education

Class for Zoom is great for anyone trying to add a bunch of quality-of-life improvements to their zoom experience, especially for meetings with one main arbiter and many listeners. On the other hand, I think if you are looking for features more suited to group meetings, then there are likely other software products that would fit that niche better. Most of the features here are more targeted to teacher/student interactions.

Incentivized

Google [Workspace for Education (formerly G Suite for Education)] is pretty darn good [at] meeting the needs for educators and students. It is not designed to run your business office, transportation group, or lunch services. It doesn't need to be good at those. Focus on teachers and students. They do that really, really well. The Google folks continue to add features that help serve teacher and students. For example, they have really done a good job of adding Google Meet features such as polling and breakout rooms. Those features required a paid subscription to Workspace, but it makes sense since those features compete with Zoom, which requires a subscription for those services.

Incentivized

• Send a message to the whole group or just one person.
• screen sharing is the best feature.
• It is used for knowledge based communication, conferences and webinars.
• very easy process

• Email: The best email experience, period. It's fast, has the best mobile apps and tons of addons that extend it.
• Office suite: The Google editors might not have all the features of their MS Office counterparts, but they have most of them and the apps are surprisingly performant.
• Domain management: The Google Admin Console, coupled with the GAM command line tool, is very powerful, easy to use and simplifies any admin's work.

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• The virtual background feature doesn't work that great on windows devices even after having a sound graphics card and other required hardware
• Its mobile apps lack many features which are available in computer versions

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• The admin console regularly feel sluggish
• Require third party tools to make changes to bulk devices
• Support could be a little better

Incentivized

Always up, never down. Compatible with so many different platforms, OSes, and tools. For instance, someone can be on a phone, tablet, laptop, and all of those tools are compatible with Google apps like Meet, Docs, Slides, and anything else Google based. It's flexiblity is fantastic and meets our changing hardware and software requirements

Incentivized

Wide range of features given by Zoom as compares to Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex and Skype for business. it is very easy to use and very easy to set up as well, most of the features are very good and easy to adapt. And knowledge sharing to freshers is easy using Zoom application.

Incentivized

Google has a simpler approach to its apps. With all applications being online, things like auto-save being a default have been helpful for many staff in our organisation. Compare this to Microsoft where much of the admin has to be managed by the ICT Team, Google allows for a portion of control to the user to manage permissions of areas. This type of user empowerment helps people see how important ICT is to a business.

Incentivized

• It has positively impacted our product since we have live virtual class sessions every week
• We are able to meet as an entire company (5,000+ employees)

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• There has been a steady evolution of new features coming out that reduced the need for third party tools
• We have been able to sign agreements to lock in annual renewal costs for up to 5 years
• It's a ubiquitous platform, finding support is generally pretty easy

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