Video conferences and online seminars
Meetings, seminars, workshops, team meetings, conferences, lectures, or talks with computers or mobile devices. High-quality events can be held in some rooms on campus with the appropriate equipment.
Overview
| webconf | DFNconf | Zoom | Teams | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costs | free of charge | free of charge | free of charge (campus license) | free of charge |
| Number of participants | 200 system-wide | pexip: 23 or as stream unlimited Adobe Connect: 200 | 300 | min. up to 30 participants stable, if only the respective speaker activates audio/video |
| Event organizer | Staff | Staff | Students and Staff | Students and staff with a Teams account |
| Participants | any, also external | any, also external | any, also external | Students and staff with a Teams account |
| Duration of meeting | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| availability | may fluctuate due to the participant limit | may fluctuate: resources are shared with all institutions using DFNconf | high | high |
| encryption | transport | transport | transport end-to-end | transport |
| Features | Video/audio, chat, sharing desktop, sharing application (window), sharing files | |||
| Additional features | Whiteboard, voting | Only Adobe Connect: Whiteboard, voting | Whiteboard, voting | Team calendar |
| Use in the browser | Only in combination with app | pexip: yes Adobe Connect: Only in combination with app | yes | yes |
| App | Windows, Mac, Linux, IOS, Android | Windows, Mac, Linux, IOS, Android | Windows, Mac, Linux, IOS, Android | Windows, Mac, IOS, Android |
| all about webconf | all about DNFconf | all about Zoom | all about MS Teams | |
Lectures as video conferences
Holding lectures in real time as a video conference is not always the best solution. This is because with each additional person, the event becomes increasingly demanding for you on a technical, organizational, and didactic level. On a technical level, you must expect problems with individual participants in particular, but also problems of stability. We therefore recommend that you hold video conferences with no more than 30 participants.
Alternatively, you can also record lectures and publish them on our streaming server p2go.
This allows you to record the material either in the lecture hall or on your own device. Perhaps divided the lecture into smaller blocks of, say, 30 minutes. You can integrate these into ILIAS where you can also offer the possibility to ask questions which you can then answer there or in a new video.
You could always offer video conferencing as an additional place for questions and feedback.
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