Google Meet can restrict video lessons to students that have a google account at our school. There is no way to "zoom bomb" a google meet and for this reason alone, we recommend Google Meet over zoom. However, Google Meet has many limitations compared to Zoom. At this point, Zoom offers breakout rooms, the ability to mute all students, integration with AirPlay and second monitors, and a better grid view. Yet, many of these features can be added to Google Meet (and Google has said they are planning on adding more features soon).

Below you will find the two "key" extensions that we highly recommend (Grid view and Attendance) and a third option for breakout rooms.

Here is a quick link for people to access our recommended google meet extensions:

Google Meet Breakout Rooms

(moderate difficulty, requires 15-20 minutes of setup)

Google meet breakout rooms are very useful and have some advantages that zoom does not have. The extension will open new Google Meets and allow you to paste links to them into the chat (or google classroom stream) for students to join. You can also sync all names from your Google Meet and ad hoc assign students to breakout rooms. While a little confusing at times, this extension is my favorite so far and I have been using it often!