Google Meet from Classroom

The guide below is a Quick Start Guide for using Google Meet in Classroom.

Google has prepared more detailed information on their support site for teachers:

https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/9776888

If students need more information Google provides this documentation:

https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/9777280

Troubleshooting

When using Meet, participants can turn off their camera to show their profile photo instead. This can improve video meeting quality if internet speed is slow. If audio quality is poor, use a phone for audio instead.
For large classes, use a live stream instead of having students join an interactive video class meeting. To engage students while live streaming, you can use Google Slides Q&A. Or, you can pre-record a lesson to share later.

Workflow for each class meet:

Enable Meet in Classroom. This only needs to be done once for each classroom.
Teacher Joins meet from Classroom.
Teacher starts meet recording.
Students Joins meet from Classroom.
All students leave meet or are removed.
Teacher leaves meet.

Enable Meet in Classroom

1) Click the Settings button from the upper-right corner of the screen of Google Classroom.

2) Scroll down and click the Generate Meet link button.

This will generate a Nickname for this Google Classroom.

3) Scroll up and click the Save button.

4) Upon returning to the Classroom home page, a Meet link will now be displayed.

The Meet link is also shown on the Classwork page.

Click on the link to start the Meet for this class.

Students will see the same link in Google Classroom on their device.

Students will only be able to join this Meet after the teacher has clicked on the Meet link first.

If students click the link before the teacher, they will get a message stating that this service is not enabled.

Start a Meet

1) Click the Meet link in Google Classroom or the Meet button on the Classwork page.

2) Set-up the microphone and camera for the Meet.

(1) Mute or unmute the microphone (left). Show or hide the webcam (right).

(2) Click Join now for microphone and video meeting.

Note: Clicking Present will only share the screen. Face-to-face video is not available. It is possible to share the screen after clicking the Join now button.

Record meeting

(1) Click the three dot menu button.

(2) Click the Record meeting button.

Follow the on-screen instructions.

Wait for the recording to start.

Note: Recordings will be saved to the user's Google Drive account.

Manage Participants

(1) Click the People button.

(2) Click to toggle the participant's microphone on or off.

(3) Click to remove the participant from the meeting.

End Meeting

1) Make sure all students have left meeting.

The participants menu should show People (1) which is just the teacher. If more students are left they should be removed (see above).

When the meet is over the teacher needs to be the last one to leave the meet. If students are left in the meet after the teacher they can continue the meet without the teacher.

2) Click the Leave call button.

Host and Guest Interaction:

Host (teacher) needs to start the meeting from the Classroom link.
Guests (students) use the link in Classroom or the nickname provided by the teacher.
Guests (students) need to have an RCS Google account or be admitted by the Host (teacher) if they are an outside guest.
Guests can invite other users.
- The class nickname and URL are shown in the meeting window for all guests.
- Guests (students) with an RCS Google account are admitted automatically.
- Outside guests can use the meeting URL and ask to join. They must be admitted or denied by the Host (teacher).
Host (teacher) needs to be the last to leave the meeting. Guests can continue to meet if the teacher is not the last to leave the meeting. The host (teacher) needs to make sure all guests have left or use the Remove button before leaving the meeting.
Guests cannot enter the future meetings without the host (teacher).

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