Google Meet: Getting Started Step-by-Step 

Let's Get Started

1. Review the SPS Video Guidelines for Teachers. Make sure that you understand what is and is not allowed in SPS.

New Features

1. Blurred backgrounds

2. See up to 49 people in your Google Meet.

3. New controls for moderators:

   1. Give meeting hosts additional controls for muting, presenting, joining, and more. 

   2. End meetings for all participants when class is finished.

   3. Manage join requests with ease by accepting or rejecting them in bulk.

   4. A setting that requires the teacher to join first.

4. Integrated Jamboard whiteboard for collaboration making it easy for remote participation in brainstorming activities.

5. Meeting attendance: Give meeting hosts a simple way to see who attended their meeting.

6. Breakout rooms: Make it easy for large meetings to split into smaller groups, have parallel discussions, and reconvene once finished. 

7. Hand raising: Increase participation in larger meetings by enabling participants to “raise their hands” when they have a question or something to say.

8. Q&A: Provide a channel for the audience to ask questions without disrupting the flow of the conversation.

9. Polling: Engage participants in large meetings with real-time polling.