dropouts and loosing connections on Adobe Connect and Skype for Business,” said Orwin. He found Zoom on the recommendation of another university and started using it with a free license. “It was easy. It worked on limited bandwidth. I was hooked,” he said Orwin purchased more Kubis and realized that they came with 1-year Zoom Pro licenses. He then worked with Kubi, Zoom, and his peers from other schools including the University of Arizona and Michigan State University, to streamline the Kubi-Zoom integration. In using Zoom and Kubi together, “It clicked. I realized that I needed to get Zoom for the iSchool. Of all the meeting tech we’ve used, Zoom is the best. It has the best video quality and connection status. It just works.” They rolled out Zoom and it was quickly “A huge success,” said Orwin. “We have incredible usage on Zoom. At least double that of Adobe Connect. It’s very simple to use, whereas Connect was extremely complex to use.” The Kubi integration is another factor in the success of Zoom at UW: “The tight integration with Kubi is awesome. With Adobe Connect, it took working with a couple different apps to have both systems running, whereas with the Kubi-Zoom solution, you only need to have the Kubi app open.” Orwin has seen usage of Kubi and Zoom blossom, particularly in streaming campus events to online students. It is also used heavily for elective courses. “Elective courses often don’t have enough students either online or in person, so we put them together into one hybrid course. We set up Kubis in the classroom and bring in online students virtually.” The best part? The students and professors love their new technology – it truly brings them together. Explained Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams Orwin, “The first time the Kubi running Zoom moved, the together in a frictionless cloud environment to get more done. Our easy, reliable, video- first unified communications platform for professor was like ‘Whoa, I actually know someone is there.’ video, voice, content sharing, and chat runs across mobile devices, It provides a real presence for the person on the remote desktops, telephones, and room systems. Founded in 2011, Zoom is a publicly traded company on Nasdaq (ticker: ZM) and end and the person in the room.” headquartered in San Jose, California. Visit zoom.com and follow @zoom_us. University of Washington | October 2019