This is a brief comparison table of key features available across McMaster-provided web and video conferencing tools. These tools are all available to McMaster staff, faculty, and students at no cost.
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Teams: Participant management functionality adds a layer of security. MS Teams allows closed groups within the McMaster 365 environment with associated McMaster credentials.
Zoom: Recommended for open or public-facing sessions. Accessing Zoom through the McMaster campus-wide license adds a layer of security, compared to an individual account. Please see the Zoom support page for other ways to make your meetings as secure as possible within this platform.
Teams: Accessible documents webinar for Teaching in Microsoft Teams.
Zoom: Remote teaching and captioning information.
Accessibility considerations outside of captioning available on the Accessibility Hub.
Teams: Share files in a chat during the meeting.
Teams: See examples of how McMaster community members are integrating 365 applications.
Zoom: Save to cloud or local computer. Host can share and download. If a co-host is in a breakout room, they can record the breakout room discussion.
Teams: The recording is saved to Microsoft Stream and the link is posted in the meeting chat or channel automatically.
Zoom, Teams: Participants can provide non-verbal feedback, such as ‘raise hand’, ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘like’, ‘dislike’
Teams: Collaboration tools can be integrated for note-taking.
Zoom: Host can save the chat transcript manually / set to auto save. Participants can send messages to each other privately or to the group.
Teams: Chat transcript automatically saved within the application. Threads of conversation can also be created and continue post-meeting.
Zoom: Host can enable a waiting room to admit participants. This requires monitoring during the meeting.
Teams: Participants are automatically approved to join a call if they are part of a Team.
Zoom: Host can enable polling for a Zoom session by following these steps.
Teams: Polling is now available for your use. McMaster community members can leverage Microsoft Forms within a Teams group channel (i.e. course Teams), but not 1:1 chats. See this article for how to leverage Forms to poll a group within Teams.
Zoom: Hosts can create breakout rooms
Teams: Hosts can create breakout rooms
Zoom: Hosts can view attendance reports by logging in to their account.
Teams: Participant attendance can be downloaded by the organizer of the Team.