Zoom

Features Available in Zoom and Not Google Hangouts

• Breakout Rooms
• Polling
• Whiteboards (built-in) and screen-share annotation
• Manage Participants options
• Canvas integration (enable Zoom from your Settings Navigation page)
• Waiting Room feature - useful for office hours through Zoom
• Add co-hosts to your meetings - useful for co-teaching
• Automatically save chat - Enable in “Settings” before meeting
• Mute participants on entry - Enable in “Settings” before meeting
• Disable participants’ ability to record the meeting
• Send files through chat - Enable in “Settings” before meeting
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• Determine who can share their screen - You can do this in the meeting screen-sharing options
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Features Available in Both Zoom and Premium Google Hangouts

Google has rolled out its premium Hangouts features to all G Suite for Education institutions through through September 30th, 2020 (due to the pandemic), so you can make use of the following features in Hangouts until then, or use the Zoom versions:

• Recording (Google Hangouts recordings live in Google Drive)
• Live-streaming

Features Available in Google Hangouts and Not Zoom

• Real-time closed captions (this is the biggest feature