Special considerations for student privacy

For best practices in using Google Hangouts Meet for online learning, please click here.

• Know your districts policies on recording students, distributing media of students, and follow them.

• Keep meeting information secure by

  • Only share invites and meeting codes with those who should be in attendance

  • Do not publicly post the meeting URL

• Keep recordings secure by limiting the way you share them

  • Directly share the link

• With a Google for Education account, only the meeting creator, calendar event owner, or person who sets up the meeting is able to mute or remove video meeting participants.

• Meeting participants are able to turn off their camera to show their profile photo instead. This can be done to improve video meeting quality if internet speed is slow. A phone can be used for audio if audio quality is poor.

• Live stream can be used instead of having students join an interactive video class meeting. You can also pre-record a lesson to share at a later time.

• Google Hangouts Meet sessions are live links. To prevent students from being able to reenter the session after you have ended it, ask them all to remain in the session until you remove them from the Hangouts Meet. Once you have removed a user, they will not be able to reenter that session.

*Information from Google Support Site