VIDEO CONFERENCE (everyone can participate) AND VIDEO BROADCASTING (one talks to all) TOOLS

Free N. of Time Share Chat Share Share Polls / Video Other features Installation Further info
licence participants limite video Screen files Quizzes recording needed
and
audio
Colibri Yes 50 40 min1 All to all Yes All Yes Yes Optional Group users into Yes, to all https://videoconf-
(Zoom) participants breakout rooms participants colibri.zoom.us/
for team
collaboration.

Videocast Yes Ilimited2 Ilimited One to Yes Only main No No Optional Costumize page Yes, to the https://videocast.fccn.pt/
many speaker Statistics in real main home
time speaker

Big Blue Yes 150 Ilimited All to all Yes All No Yes Optional Group users into No https://docs.bigbluebutto
Button participants breakout rooms n.org/support/faq.html
for team
collaboration
Allows integration
in Moodle
Teams Yes3 250 /100004 Ilimited All to all Yes All Yes No5 Optional Work on shared Yes, to all https://products.office.co
(meetings) participants files participants m/pt-pt/microsoft-
teams/free?market=pt

1
Basic Accounts have a time limit of 40min and Pro accounts have no limit of duration. Usually, the Pro account is available for all RCTSaai institution, but there is a limit number of
licences to Portugal (and currently, due the increase in demand, sometimes the pro features are not avaliable).
2
Videocast only allows video broadcasting. You can transmit video and share screen (Powerpoint presentation, for instance), but the participants can only interact using written
messages (chat).
3
Free until January 2021. After that date, you need to have a Microsoft Outlook 365 account.
4
250 (video conference) and 10 000 (video broadcasting)
5
Only using an Add-on

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