Online Meetings and Collaboration

Meetings

What should you use for online meetings? The University supports and recommends these, in order of preference:

1. Microsoft Teams is best for one-to-one meetings, or group meetings with less than 250 participants.
2. Blackboard Collaborate is best for larger meetings, for one-to-many presentation or seminar events, for when you need breakout groups, and for online recruitment and interviews. Slides and videos can be shared with external viewers, who need not be University staff or students.
3. Zoom (Enterprise) is available for occasions when neither Teams nor Collaborate will do.

Chat

There's also text-based chat. Microsoft Teams is the School’s preferred chat platform.

See also

University guides:

• ⇒ Microsoft Teams.
• ⇒ Microsoft Teams FAQ.
• ⇒ Virtual Classroom (Collaborate, Zoom, advice and tips).
  
• ⇒ Online and Digital Events Service.

More Informatics help:

• ⇒ Online recruitment using Blackboard Collaborate.
• ⇒ Using Zoom Enterprise.
• ⇒ Remote working.
• ⇒ Online Meeting tech tips.

Other guidance:

• ⇒ Browser support for Blackboard Collaborate.
• ⇒ Why Do Remote Meetings Suck So Much?
• ⇒ How Do We Make Remote Meetings Not Suck?