Web Conferencing, Cloud Storage, and Online Form Applications

A comprehensive vocabulary review of key concepts, types, platforms, and terms related to web conferencing, cloud storage, and online form creation.

Web Conferencing

A broad term for different types of online conferencing and collaboration between participants in various places to have discussions, upload files, share documents, and simulate real-time meetings.

Interactive Team Meetings

A type of web conferencing that makes a simple meeting fun and exciting, creating a natural atmosphere for participants to engage with opinions, ideas, and projects.

Video Conferences

A type of web conferencing that uses a visual technique and requires a camera, helping participants observe social cues and establish a visual link.

Webinars

Seminars conducted online in school and work settings as presentations on specific topics, where guests sign up using online forms and participate in a question-and-answer session at the end.

Webcasts

Online shows or web-based broadcasts presented live or pre-recorded, where presenters can filter out audience questions and unnecessary comments.

Zoom

A web conferencing tool described as a unified communications as a service (UCaaS) that offers collaboration features such as chatting, video, and audio messaging.

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)

The service classification describing the web conferencing platform Zoom.

Microsoft Teams

A platform equipped with video conferencing software and collaboration tools, which allows file sharing through a feature called SharePoint.

SharePoint

A feature in Microsoft Teams used to share files.

Skype

A free online messaging and video conferencing platform usable on computers and smartphones that offers instant messaging and large group creation features.

Google Meet

A web conferencing tool that lets users interact online by joining directly from a Google calendar event or a shared link.

Google Hangouts Meet

The previous name of the web conferencing tool Google Meet.

Cloud Storage

A technology that allows users to save files and data online by storing them on remote servers for access at any time.

Online Application Form

An application form completed, filled in, and submitted via the internet by users providing information and personal data.

Social Security System (SSS)

A government institution that offers online application forms that can be downloaded and printed to provide efficiency.

Google Forms

A straight-to-the-point feature of Google Workspace that allows users to easily create online forms.

Typeform

A form-creation website requiring an account that provides customizable premade templates and brand kits to make online forms recognizable.

Wix

A website marketed as a professional form builder that provides customizable premade templates to create forms without hassle.

Jotform

A form-creation platform offering paid features that allows users to collect online payments and integrate business applications and orders with forms.