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Tanice
Verified reviewer
Education Management, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2021
Most Convenient software for students
What I love about this app is how interactive and easy it is to use. My 7 year old daughter uses this software during her class sessions to interact in her class with her peers and teacher. This software is so user friendly that she can use this software on her own with minimal assistance from me. She really enjoys drawing her shapes, sets, engaging in her math lesson while the teacher is expounding on the lesson. When we are recapping we also use the software so she can express herself and what she learnt in class.
CONSThis software needs to be more accessible on different devices. Its hard logging on to it from a phone or a tablet, if it is even possible.
Ada Jocabeth
Verified reviewer
Education Management, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2020
A board with an intuitive, fun and collaborative desing.
It's a quick and easy tool for teaching, taking notes, brainstorming, and much more. In my classes, I use it to teach math and it is very useful when writing math language. You can work in collaboration with other people in real-time thanks to the fact that it's now integrated with Google Meet and you can project on a Chromecast. In addition, Jamboard integrates easily with Google Drive and is stored in the cloud. With the recent updates on mobile and tablet, it has improved a lot, please add more tools and a color palette.
PROSWhat I like about this platform is that you can interact with your students and colleagues at the same time from their phones, tablets, and PCs. It's integrated with Google Meet, which makes it a basic tool for all your meetings. Also, you can add images, notes, change the background, and use different types of pencils and shapes, which makes it more creative and fun.
CONSFor those who are not used to it, Jamboard works like slides instead of an infinite page, which can lose the sequence or relationship of the notes. It would be good if the developers added tools to interact with the images on the board and select the objects, also add more fonts and a color palette.
Anonymous
501-1,000 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed November 2022
Meet Whiteboard: Collaboration Made Easy
Overall experience has been positive. It feels like the product is a very primitive version of other popular products out there for whiteboarding ideas during calls or meetings.
PROSI most like that Jamboard allows any number of team members on a Meet call to simultaneously doodle and type ideas on a whiteboard that is visible to all participants. This solves even a real-life in person meetings pain point of everyone's idea being pinned up close for everyone else's review.
CONSI least like that Jamboard isn't marketed enough by Google or isn't available as a separate product outside of Meet calls. This could help ramp up adoption and usage of the tool before anyone has to use it while on a collaborative call.
Reason for choosing Jamboard
Because Jamboard is bundled within Meet and since there is heavy usage of Meet calls on Google calendar it becomes the preferred choice for quick whiteboarding generally.
Elena
Verified reviewer
E-Learning, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2021
Learn and have fun with Jamboard
The benefits are unquestionable. There are almost no limits in the collaboration between the participants in the learning process and the class presentation. You can save all your frames or select them. Students can share their knowledge and express their ideas visually.
PROSThe most impactful feature may be the Sticky notes- with their bright colors and the option to change their places on the board or rotate them. They are great for writing short remarks, questions, and comments. They might be used as exit tickets at the end of each lesson. As a whole, it is very easy to use this digital whiteboard. You can integrate it immediately into your teaching.
CONSThere are some drawbacks when using the Jamboard. For instance, you cannot embed videos. But you can use animated pictures, also Bitmoji, and Google Chrome Extensions (for files). Some teachers (and students) might find it difficult to draw on the board with a mouse. In this case, they can use their phones and make the drawings with fingers.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2022
Good education tool
Suitable for both group and one-on-one tutoring.
PROSJamboard is user-friendly. This is perfect for remote meetings where no one agrees. Jamboard desperately needed the "shapes" feature. Use-friendly
CONSFont format, sticky notes, and color options are limited. Notes only, not JAMs. Templates would be nice. figma's increased features and same level of cooperation made it preferable for design sprints.
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2022
A collaborative digital whiteboard from Google
Jamboard lets us collaborate with other team members during a conference call. Jamboard is also a hardware device while most of us know it as a web application seen mostly in Google Meet. It is available on mobile devices too. Jamboard allows adding images or an entire webpage and do some drawings on it. The drawings are automatically converted to clean shapes and the drawings can be included in Google docs apps like Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. Jamboard is most commonly used in Google Meets where up to 50 participants can collaborate at once.
CONSEvery time a Jamboard is created via Google Meet (Jamboard is integrated with Google Meet and can be create with a single click) a new Jamboard is created instantly. But the problem is each participant has to request permission to view it and the creator has to grant permissions separately, which is not practical in the case of a meeting with hundreds of people. Perhaps this is one of the reason why it is not extensively used in Google Meets.
Luis
Verified reviewer
Design, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2022
Jamboard Review
Jamboard has been great for virtual meetings! We can all share our ideas anonymously and give each other honest feedback. It's also very easy to organize and categorize our ideas and notes!
PROSI love all of the little stickies and text boxes! It makes it easy for the team to write a short note or write a detailed idea! It's also easy to color code everything to keep it organized.
CONSI don't like the sketching tool it's too clunky and hard to use for people that don't have a mouse.
Reasons for switching to Jamboard
More of our team has access to these.
Anonymous
10,000+ employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2022
simple, effective whiteboard tool
Its simplicity and ease of use means that you can engage naive audiences and capture their comments and ideas without extensive explanation. This is good to be able to capture sponaneous reactions and remarks very quickly. I find it useful for public engagement. It produces a record of work products from online interaction in the participants' own words. Final work products can then be circulated and people will recognise and support the content
PROSthe tool is simple and easy to use to create text. It automatically allocates colours to collect comments, which can be dragged around to reorganise into themes or boards added together, for example between different workshops, to produce an overall summation
CONSquantitative analysis is not automated, unlike boards such as Menti
Anonymous
10,000+ employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed March 2022
A good product
A good product if you want to share small snippets or meeting notes with the entire team. You can also create it as a personal wall and ask your team to write whatever they want on the board.
CONSI wish there were options to change and use various fonts. Creative options are a bit less and that can be improved.
Kateřina
Hospital & Health Care, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2023
Jamboard Review
Great tool for collaboration, brainstorming and sharing ideas.
PROSJamboard is a great tool for online collaboration. It is possible to work on the same board simultaneously and brainstorm. The basic functions are easy to use.
CONSIt is online tool which means you need to have stable internet connection. Also the design tools are maybe too simple - I would appreciate more advanced tools to create better looking boards.
Marie
Animation, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2022
Jamboard
What I like about Jamboard is the slides and you can work with others and draw.
CONSJamboard has a limit of 20 slides on a Jamboard.
Natasha
Events Services, 1 employee
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2022
Visual Canvas for Thinking!
Overall, Jamboard is great for a group of people or for individual coaching. It creates an interactive, visual environment. With some creativity, you can do many different activities with the platform.
PROSJamboard is great for visual thinking. I am able to add boards, write on the board via texts, change the colors, duplicate the boards, and move them around. I'm also able to add images, draw, or use the sticky. I have used Jamboard as brain dumps, collective art, or just interactive coaching. It's a basic platform, but once you know how to use it, it provides what is needed for a job well done.
CONSIf a student/client is not logged into google, I have no way of knowing who is contributing to the board. Also, it has a set limit for how many boards you can add. Lastly, when adding a sticky note, it populates in one area, so I usually have to immediately move them around, so we can see everyone's comments.
Emily
Primary/Secondary Education, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2020
Google’s Great Online Interactive Whiteboard
I’ve really enjoyed using Jamboard with my second graders and fellow teachers. During quarantine and E-Teaching, this has been a great way to interact with students, letting them jump in and add notes and pictures for group projects, or even to brainstorm new ideas with other teachers. Even though I don’t have the hardware, I’ve enjoyed using Jamboard, and so have the students!
PROSJamboard is a quick and easy interactive whiteboard software. It has many easy to use tools, such as sticky notes, drawing, adding pictures, and more. Multiple people can join the Jamboard online to edit and view it simultaneously, which makes it great for collaboration! On top of that, because Jamboard is a part of the Google Suite, any board you make is automatically saved on your Google Drive, and as someone who often forgets where documents are stored, that is amazing!
CONSThe software doesn’t have quite as many features as other interactive whiteboard softwares, such as SMART. Also, similar to SMART, the software is great, but the hardware can be very expensive.
Patsy
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Jamboard for Online Teaching Rocks!
I had a good experience with it and loved using it in the classroom!
PROSIt was easy to use, it offered a good variety of tools to use, it was simple, it kept the kids engaged virtually!
CONSTeaching online, in general was hard at first, so the initial process of it, but once I learned it, it was easy.
Reason for choosing Jamboard
It was what another admin mentioned... I didn't know about it at first.
Pamela
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2020
Jamboard is great for teaching!
Love Jamboard! Total game changer for teaching remotely! Love being able to show my kids how to do their math.
PROSI absolutely love using Jamboard while I am remote teaching! It is so easy to use. I can add my math slides and manipulate them while presenting to my class! They can see how to do everything the way I want them to!
CONSI would love to see the ability to add links that are videos or songs. Currently I can’t because they don’t have sound when they play.
Anuththara
E-Learning, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2021
Easy and fun whiteboard tool for virtual learning
Great platform for live teaching.
PROSSimple user friendly software with ease of use. Supports to interact with students in virtual classrooms.
CONSMore features could be added to enhance the quality such as laser pointer, scaling pages and more functional settings.
Joel
Verified reviewer
Consumer Services, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed March 2023
Jamboard for Collaboration
It is great for less complicated whiteboard projects
PROSSince Jamboard is made by Google, I can integrate other tools such as Google Docs and Drive to import and export content.
CONSJamboard has a restrictive formatting options. Each presentation is unique and you may want to tweak some things to detail before publishing it but Jamboard does not allow that.
Chad
Education Management, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2020
A virtual whiteboard for Google users
I really like some of the tools offered in Jamboard such as the drawing tool that will analyze what you've drawn and give you suggestions as to what it is. Being able to collaborate with others in your Jam can be essential in many situations including education. It's new integration with Meet also adds a new layer to Jamboard's use in schools.
CONSThe one reason we don't use Jamboard more is that there isn't a revision history. So if a student does something inappropriate we can't verify who the student was like in many of Google's other tools.
jake
Venture Capital & Private Equity, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
1
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
1
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed September 2020
Waste of Money
Works great as a 5 figure whiteboard. Want collaboration? more than one marker out? Anything useful? Look elsewhere
CONSMonthly Fees to maintain your license is just another stick in the eye from this awful product. Seriously, google stay out of consumer electronics
Yathavi
Education Management, 1 employee
Used monthly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2021
Jamboard: Digital Interactive Tool
Though I do not use Jamboard outside of a classroom setting, I do enjoy how interactive and creative I can be with sharing my ideas.
PROSJamboard is a great tool for collaboration, where users can share their ideas on a particular concept, which can be done using the "anyone can edit" link option. I like the various creative approaches that can be taken to make learning more engaging and creative.
CONSI wish there were more template options in Jamboard such as with more marker options, more options for background choices, or the option to add media content such as music and videos.
Ndara
Religious Institutions, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT