GoToMeeting

GoToMeeting

  Basic Information

GoToMeeting helps to organize and attend online meetings, video-conference calls, online training’s or presentations by enabling coworkers, customers and prospects to view any application running on your PC.

Primary Use:

• [General] Create a meeting using web and video conferencing tool
• [Faculty] Collaboration, Lectures, Screen Sharing
• [Students] Note-taking with Transcripts, Online Discussion, Screen Sharing

Key Features:

• Join a conference call through Desktop or Mobile Options
• Join the meeting by simply answering a call – no codes or PINs needed.
• Choose between VoIP and toll-based options at no extra charge
• OpenVoice makes setting up toll-free conferencing easy and manageable
• Collaborate face to face with up to 25 high-definition video feeds per session
• Direct attention using drawing tools while sharing your screen
• Record and store your meetings online for easy review and sharing
• Encryption and authentication security provided by a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Web site with end-to-end 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption and optional passwords

What is Padlet Video

Category: Collaborative Tool

Keywords: Collaboration, Meeting, Conference

 Detailed Information

Full Description:

GoToMeeting is a simple and very straightforward web conferencing system loaded with international features, making it an ideal option for business with multiple international locations and professionals with contracts and dealings with international clients and colleagues. The software sports a user-friendly interface and starting a meeting can be done in mere moments. The same flexibility and simpleness applies for its pricing scheme, and the numerous integrations it can offer (Podio, Slack, Accord LMS, Zapier, Microsoft Office 365, and many more applications). GoToMeeting is an excellent solution for businesses that have outgrown entry web and video conferencing tools and require a more heavy-duty alternative to Skype, Hangouts, and Facetime, while popular and widely used, are not meant for heavy usage. It is compatible with PCs, Macbook Pro and iOS devices as well as mobile devices powered by Android, giving users a wide range of flexibility and allowing them to create or join online meetings from any device, anytime and anywhere.

Tool Access

To access the tool online or for a related download link (if available) please see sources below:

• Free Trial (14 Days) with 3 Participants, 1 click Meetings, Web Audio, and Screen Sharing features only
• Paid Plans
• Download GoToMeeting App

Advantage/ Disadvantage:

Powerful, robust, and affordable, many businesses prefer to use GoToMeeting by Citrix for their video and web conferencing needs. It gives users that simplicity and functionality many other similar systems offer but an affordable price. Users love the way GoToMeeting simplify the way they initiate or join web-based conferences. The same as other Citrix products, GoToMeeting guarantees record uptime and reliable customer support at any moment. For the most part, joining a meeting with GoToMeeting is a painless process. If you have the app already, then just click on a shared link and you’re good to go. There are times when the connection doesn’t happen, however, and the reasons may be unknown. A simple glitch in the routing process to connect to the meeting can be enough to disrupt the entire process.

Good for Teaching:

Every student deserves the opportunity to attain a great education, and the last thing that should hold them back is distance. GoToMeeting can enable teachers to host classes of all sizes – from small, intimate groups sharing 25 HD webcams to huge 250 attendee lectures. Moreover, GoToMeeting enables virtual office hours and On Demand content with unlimited cloud recording and transcript capabilities empowered by Natural Language Processing. Professors can share their expertise for students to study at their own pace. Being able to quickly and easily show your online students what you are doing is another advantage, by sharing your entire screen/desktop is so important. Sharing the entire screen to your students regardless of which program you are using, or switching to, and to also have them see the pop-up or embedded windows (like scroll over Alt tags or edit menus & windows) is a must.

Good for Learning:

In education, GoToMeeting tool help to bridge the distance between teachers and learners, facilitating synchronous discussion for online lectures, office hours and presentations. Through this tool, you can teach online courses, conduct small group, team, or committee meetings, offer virtual office hours without being in your office, and conduct remote trainings.

  Reviews [For Future Use]

Public and Internal reviews on the quality of the tool and ease of use to learn/ implement.

   Learning Expectation [For Future Use]

General guidelines of how long it typically takes to learn and be comfortable (basic, advanced, expert levels) with the tool as well as what capabilities users have at each level.

• Level of difficulty to learn/ use for each level:
  • Basic  Use/ substitution: 2-4 hours of use
    • General familiarity with the tool
    • Ability to import documents in from MS Word or Powerpoint
    • Ability to create a simple document and share
  • Advanced Use/ augmentation: 20- 30 hours of use
    • General comfort with the tool
    • Ability to make a presentation from scratch including text, graphics, video, and with basic thoughts on style.
  • Expert use/ transformative (modification / redefinition): 40+ hours of use
    • Complete comfort with the tool
    • Ability to offer advice and guidance to others on the tool
    • Ability to use the tool for various design purposes: presentation, booklet, ePortofolio…
    • Understanding of layout, style (font, colors, themes) to meet end users needs

 Examples

Additional Examples:

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• Technology Examples
• See Lessons for more education examples

  Tutorial Guides

  Templates

To learn the tool in a comprehensive manner, please see public and internal lessons below. It does not cover every features but highlights the main features.

• Beginner: Organizer Basics (51 minutes)
• Intermediate: Create Webinar using GoToMeeting (7 minutes)
• Intermediate: SalesForce Integration using GoToMeeting (13 minutes)

   Product Support