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Zoom, Webex, or Google Meet: Which Video Conferencing Tool Is Right For Me?

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By: Gracia Ostendorf  &  Ruowei Fischer     E-Campus Logo

Which Video Conferencing Tool Is Right For Me?

Miami University faculty, students, and staff have access to 3 different tools that can be used for virtual classes and meetings: Zoom, Webex, and Google Meet. The matrix below breaks down the most commonly used features and their availability on each platform so that you can choose the tool that best meets your needs.

Scheduling Meetings   |   Recording Capabilities   |   Sharing & Annotating Content   |   Additional Meeting Tools and Features


Scheduling Meetings

Zoom and Webex have the extra convenience provided from integration with Canvas, making it easier to share your meeting links, invitations, and recordings with students.

Scheduling Meetings
Zoom Webex Google Meet
Option to schedule meetings directly in Canvas No
Option to schedule recurring events
Meetings scheduled via Canvas integration automatically show up on Canvas Course Calendar No

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Recording Capabilities

To record your meetings, you’ll need to use either Zoom or Webex; Google Meet no longer has this feature. Both Zoom and Webex can save recordings to the Cloud, which you can later download to your computer. Zoom has the additional option to solely save the recording on your computer, and not the cloud.

Recording Capabilities
Zoom Webex Google Meet
Cloud recording (saves video file to the cloud)
(Host Only)

(Host Only)
No
Local recording (saves video file to computer)
(Host or Participant)
No
(Saved on the cloud, but can be
downloaded to your device from there)
No
Automatically creates a link to recorded meeting & posts it in Canvas No

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Sharing & Annotating Content

Both Zoom and Webex have full-screen sharing and annotating capabilities. In Google Meet you can share your screen, but it does not have any built-in annotating tools. To annotate shared content in Google Meet, you’ll need to connect an extra device and app.

Sharing & Annotating Contents
Zoom Webex Google Meet
Share screens and content
Virtual whiteboard No
Annotation No

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Additional Meeting Tools and Features

The 3 tools vary in their offerings of additional tools and features that you can use in your meetings:

Sharing & Annotating Contents
Zoom Webex Google Meet
Breakout rooms
Coming Soon
No
Polling available No
Closed captioning
Can assign participants
to type out during meetings
Speech-to-text recognition
Meeting reports
(miamioh.zoom.us > Reports)
(miamioh.webex.com > Classic View > My Reports)
No
Screen views for host and participant
Virtual background
Max # of participants
300
1000
100

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