teech vs. Skype for Business - aus dem Markt ausgeschieden

What is teech?

teech is a teaching platform that allows lessons to be conducted remotely via laptop as well as tablet and smartphone. According to the developer company of the same name from Darmstadt, Germany, the software is hosted on German servers and is fully GDPR compliant. Schools can create and organize various teacher accounts as well as subjects. Lessons are then conducted via video conference and with the help of a digital board, where writing, drawing or inserting different documents can take place. teech documents the progress of each lesson and makes the content available for later review. According to teech, they have already convinced more than 250 schools. The system is available in a three-month trial version - thereafter, it costs between 399 and 1099 Euros per year. The three available packages are tailored to the number of students to be taught.

What is Skype?

This pioneer of IP telephony has been on the market since 2003, and has been part of Microsoft since 2011. Currently, Skype allows "group video chats" with up to 50 participants. Neither software nor registration is strictly necessary for this. Conferences can be set up via a link generated on the web. However, the app version of Skype offers an extended range of functions. In addition to chat, recording, and subtitles, practical features are added, such as the ability to share your own screen or a blur feature for the participants' backgrounds. According to Skype, the integrated translator currently allows conversations to be simultaneously translated into eleven languages, and supports more than 60 languages in text form in the chat. Since the summer of 2021, the business version of Skype has been discontinued. Since then, there has been a link from the page to Microsoft Teams.