Zoom Whiteboard versus Reactiv SUITE

Category: Technology

Zoom is a fantastic video conferencing tool that can easily connect many people together in an online meeting, but it has its limitations. The integrated whiteboard is one of them! The Zoom whiteboard has many different problems. Here are some of the major issues that make it practically impossible for me to use it in my meetings: Lots of clicks – It takes clicks upon clicks to do anything! You have to click between erasers, pen, size and shape. It is really disruptive and slows down the discussion Cluttered UI – There are floating toolbars on top of toolbars. You have your PowerPoint and app windows with their interfaces, then you have the Zoom conference call toolbars and add to this more clutter with the whiteboard controls You quickly run out of screen space Ink doesn’t follow the document – this is a big one! When you flip the page or move the document, the ink doesn’t move with the document. That means that the ink doesn’t make sense and the context is lost very quickly. What if you need to ink two different pages and need to flip back and forth? The biggest problem is the user experience. It is frustrating to use in a real meeting of any substance. You must erase all the ink as you progress through your presentation; the zoom whiteboard is just an overlay on your desktop. It has no idea what you are doing and how you are moving your documents. This means that the ink loses its relevance really quickly and your screen becomes a hot mess!