When choosing your tools, remember that the best tool for your course is generally
- What you and your students are most familiar with.
- What ensures all students have a way to participate.
- What's doable.
- What's supported by the university (you're going to need support).
| Zoom | Teams | |
|---|---|---|
| Video meetings | Yes | Yes |
| Record meetings | Yes, to the cloud and locally | Yes, to the Cloud only via Stream* |
| Screen share | Yes, including whiteboard and annotation | Yes, whiteboard and annotation through Whiteboard* and PowerPoint* |
| Polling | Yes | Yes, Forms or Poll Everywhere* |
| Share files | Yes, via the in-meeting chat | Yes, via Files or Class Notebooks |
| Breakout rooms | Yes | Yes |
| Chat during meetings | Yes | Yes |
| Chat outside of meetings | Yes, via Zoom desktop app* | Yes |
| Collaborate on documents | No | Yes |
| Persistent workspace | No | Yes |
| Integrated with UVACollab | Yes | No |
| UVA support | Extensive | Limited |
*separate app
Zoom
Technical Considerations
- Zoom provides a video conference platform that is easy to use and reliable.
- The instructor is able to control the settings of the meeting and decide who can speak when.
- It is integrated with UVACollab
Pedagogical Considerations
- It provides a limited set of tools for engagements (such as breakout rooms and reactions), but it is primary conducive to a learning environment where one person speaks at a time, such as in a lecture. If your style of teaching is focused on straightforward content delivery (lecture) and limited interaction, Zoom can enable you to speak virtually to students in a virtual mimicry of the classroom.
- Its tools for collaboration are limited and it requires other platforms to do things like collaborate, share documents, and submit assignments.
Microsoft Teams
Technical Considerations
- Enables most of the functionality of Zoom and UVACollab in one integrated platform that is designed for group collaboration.
- Includes additional functionality: e.g. multiple channels for different groups/units, collaborative documents, embedded course content (e.g. videos, hyperlinks, PDFs, PowerPoint), embedded tabs for external
- It is not integrated with UVACollab.
- There are some limitations, including lack of robust internal polling or discussion functionality, and a gradebook that does not sync with SIS.
Pedagogical Considerations
- Creates a cohesive learning environment that can incorporate in-class and out-of-class activities and resources in one persistent space.
- Enables synchronous and asynchronous collaboration in multiple formats.
- Houses teaching materials, assignments, assessments, video recordings, activities, and conversation threads in one platform that is more intuitive for students.
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