[acc-cca-l] Looking for thoughts on sound/video quality, usability of video conferencing systems

[Kaela Jubas]

Just to respond to one thing that Evan Light said, I typically save Zoom call data to my device rather than the Zoom cloud. I was assuming that doing that kept call data from being stored in rhe US. Can anyone confirm that point?

Otherwise, Zoom is what we use for most meetings and pretty much all teaching. I haven't had any issues with it and find it pretty easy to use - although my use of it has been pretty elementary. I've been on Zoom meetings with about 65 people - just set it up to mute mics and keep video off on entry.  Speakers can turn on audio and video when they need to. For smaller meetings or classes, keeping video on has not presented a problem, although muting mics is still good to do. We used to use AdobeConnect, which both instructors and students had consistent problems with (mostly disconnections). From what I've heard about Microsoft Teams, it's not the best choice for teaching, which is not what it was designed for.

Hope that helps. If anyone has further information about secure storage of Zoom data, passing that along would be greatly appreciated!

Kaela

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We had a faculty council meeting by Zoom a couple weeks ago with close to 80 participants and didn't have any issues. My main concern with Zoom is privacy (data is all stored in the U.S.). JItsi Meet is worth considering if you want to self-host.

https://meet.jit.si/

https://github.com/jitsi

Evan

On 2020-05-06 9:58 a.m., Chris Waddell wrote:
Fred

 The big drawback with Teams is that only four people can be on the screen at any one time if you want to have everyone connected by video. Don' know what the cost is but I have used Go To Meeting with up to 60–70 participants (not all were on video)  but it worked quite well.

Concordia has also used Bluejeans successfully for the national course that Patti Sonntag has led with 20 or so participants.

best wishes

Chris


On May 6, 2020, at 09:51, Fred Vallance-Jones <fvjones at ukings.ca<mailto:fvjones at ukings.ca>> wrote:

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Hello everyone,

I am hoping to get some wisdom from the hive here. We are doing our King's summer data school online this year, and it will involve a number of live sessions with students, along with a lot of asynchronous content.
There are three video conferencing platforms with which I am familiar from recent experience here at King's, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Blackboard Collaborate (part of BrightSpace). They all seem to have the same base functionality of being able to pull a group together for a meeting, online class, etc, share a screen, etc.  I am trying to get a sense of whether any of these has regular problems with connectivity, sound or video quality, or ease of use. Have you experienced such issues? Would you recommend against using one of these because of those issues? Is one particularly solid?
This question is aside from the known security issues with Zoom, which I know are being worked upon, and specific issues about whether a particular platform is supported internally at an institution.
There would be up to 20 people online at once for the data school.
I have not considered Skype because I have found it unreliable, with frequent dropped calls and the like.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts you can provide.

Fred VJ


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