Features | MS Teams | MS Teams Live | Zoom Pro | Zoom Webinars | WebEx Events | Virtual Classroom |
Max Live Participants | 1,000 | 10,000 | 300+* | 500/1,000* | 1,000 | 150 |
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0 | 6 |
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Supported by | CCS | CCS | OpenEd | OpenEd | CCS | OpenEd |
Table Key: = yes,
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*For an additional cost, add-ons are available for 500 and 1000 participants.
MS Teams |
Office 365 Teams is a collaboration service that provides shared conversation spaces to help teams coordinate and communicate information. Teams delivers chat-based collaboration, calling, meetings, and live events, so you can expand the audience of your meetings. Microsoft 365 live events bring live video streaming to a new level, encouraging connection throughout the entire engagement lifecycle with attendees before, during, and after live events. You can create a live event wherever your audience, team, or community resides, using Microsoft Stream, Teams or Yammer. Teams live events is an extension of Teams meetings, enabling users to broadcast video and meeting content to a large online audience. These are meant for one-to-many communications where the host of the event is leading the interactions and audience participation is primarily to view the content shared by host. Resources |
Zoom |
Zoom is a web-conferencing tool available to instructors for meeting virtually with larger courses, of up to 300 students, and is supported by OpenEd. Students will be able to access meetings and recordings through their CourseLink sites. OpenEd Resources
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WebEx |
The Cisco WebEx web-conferencing tool is available for larger courses, of up to 1000 students, and is centrally supported by the University. Students don't have to log in to view the live stream. Resources |
Virtual Classroom |
CourseLink's Virtual Classroom tool is an integrated web-conferencing tool that allows for lectures to be live-streamed for up to 150 students. For the purpose of academic continuity, hosted live online synchronous lectures take place during the regularly scheduled face-to-face time and students watch it simultaneously. While the lecture is streaming, students can use the chat function to engage in a discussion. Lectures can also be recorded from within this tool and later viewed in CourseLink for those students who could not watch them simultaneously. Resources |
As instructors continue to support students with our return to in-person teaching and learning, Zoom or Teams recordings help to support academic continuity for students who might otherwise miss a class due to illness or self-isolation requirements.
Zoom and Teams have been popular with instructors to support remote and hybrid teaching during the pandemic, and instructors continue to use these tools to deliver courses and create resources for students.
Both platforms make the recording process simple, and the recording can be shared with students in a variety of ways. If you have used Zoom or Teams to deliver a course remotely, then the process will already be very familiar to you.
Create a Simple Lecture Recording Step-By-Step | ||||
The basic process for creating a simple lecture recording is as follows:
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When recording a live lecture for the purpose of providing it as a resource to students, there is usually no need for students to join the meeting. Instead, only the instructor joins the meeting, making it a “meeting of 1” where they can record their voice, slides, and screen shares while performing their lecture in the classroom. While this works well, there are some limitations to keep in mind:
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Resources for Using Zoom and Teams | ||||
Information and resources specific to recording on both platforms is available below. If you need support determining which web conferencing technology to use or other technological considerations, please complete our Consultation Request Form to set up a meeting with one of our instructional technology specialists. Zoom
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Privacy | ||||
Web conferencing technologies such as Zoom or Teams can be leveraged for live remote invigilation of exams or quizzes; however, they should not be considered 100% effective in preventing academic misconduct and should be approached with caution.
For more information, please consult our Tips for Live Remote Invigilation with Zoom or Teams page.