Google Meet
Google Meet is an enterprise-grade video conferencing service available to everyone. The software allows anyone with a Google Account to create an online meeting with up to one-hundred and meet for up to sixty minutes per meeting.
Businesses, schools, and other organizations can take advantage of advanced features, including meetings with up to 250 internal or external participants and live streaming to up to 100,000 viewers within a domain.
Google Meet works on any device. Join a meeting from your desktop/laptop, android, or iPhone/iPad.
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Getting Started
Introduction to Google Meet
learn-about-the-new-meet-layout.pdf
Chat and Meet in Google Classroom
adding_chat_and_meet_to_your_google_classroom.pdfLatest Updates- 12/4/2020
1. Temporary Recordings feature: With temporary recordings, a new free feature coming to G Suite for Education, any meeting host will be able to record a meeting and share the recording within their domain for up to 30 days before the video expires. Temporary recordings can't be shared outside the host's domain or downloaded. G Suite Enterprise for Education customers will have continued access to premium recordings.
2. Improved teacher controls:
Only the meeting creator, calendar event owner, or person who sets up a meeting on an in-room hardware device can mute or remove external guests into a video meeting participants. This ensures student participants can't mute or remove one another or the teacher.
If a meeting creator rejects a knock twice from the same participant, the participant will be blocked from knocking again. This means the moderator won't see any additional knocks from that user for the duration of the existing meeting and disturb the meeting.
If the moderator ejects a participant, that participant will be unable to automatically rejoin the existing meeting and need to knock to request rejoining the meeting.
3. Approve requests to join: During a video meeting, only the meeting creator can see and approve requests to join the meeting from outside of the school's G Suite domain.
4. Prevent meeting reuse: Students can't rejoin the call if teachers leave a nicknamed meeting last.
FAQs
1. Can external participants (participants not from your domain) join a meeting without needing to accept them?
No, it is not possible for an external participant to join a call without being accepted into the call. Any meeting participant from the meeting organizer's domain can accept external participants. We're working on expanding this functionality. Follow this article to keep yourself updated.
2. Can I restrict participants from accepting external participants into a meet?
No, it is not possible to restrict participants within your domain to accept external users' join requests (e.g: disable students from accepting external requests isn't possible). We're working on giving more control to meeting owners. Follow this article to keep yourself updated.
3. Can I make sure students don't use the meeting ID after the class is over? Can I 'start' and 'end' the call so students can't be in the call unsupervised?
Students will not be able to re-join a meeting after the final participant has left if:
The meeting was created using a short link like g.co/meeUnickname
The meeting was created at meet.google.com by entering a meeting nickname in the 'Join or start a meeting' field
The meeting was created in the Meet app by entering a nickname in the 'Meeting code' field
This means that if the teacher is the last person to leave these types of meetings, students cannot join later without the teacher. This feature has started rolling out and should be available to customers within 2-3 weeks.
4. Can I make sure students are only able to join meetings and not create their own meetings? How do I change our Meet settings so only teachers can create meetings?
Yes, it is possible to disable meeting creation for students. The way this can be achieved is by enabling 'Meet video calling' only for the teacher's organizational unit. By doing so, only teachers will be able to create meetings while students will only be able to join the created meetings. Please reach out to Aime Forbes or your building admin if this is something you would like setup for your building.
5. Can someone outside my organization join a livestream?
No, it is not possible for an external participant to join a live stream from your organization.
6. Can I prevent students from muting or ejecting other participants?
Yes, this is a recently rolled out feature. In case this isn't available on your account already, it will become available in the next 1-2 weeks.