Access to various features in Google Meet are sometimes dependent upon whether your District has the free G Suite for Education or the paid G Suite for Education Enterprise Edition. Google Meet Updates. August 2020 Announcements

Updates on 3/5/2020 from Google's Global Head of Education - including an expansion of Google Meet feature to deliver virtual instruction - including recording capabilities. THESE FEATURES WILL NEED TO BE ENABLED FOR YOUR DOMAIN! Instructions here. The post also has some great student engagement tips from the lens of distance learning. Free access to our advanced Google Meet video-conferencing capabilities to all G Suite for Education customers globally including:

• Larger meetings, for up to 250 participants per call

• Live streaming for up to 100,000 viewers within a domain

• The ability to record meetings and save them to Google Drive

Updates on 3/19/2020 for Google Meet. Be sure to check domain settings. These enhancements will roll out over the next 2-3 weeks.

• • Teachers will be able to mute student audio

  • Students will not be able to mute other participant (or teacher) audio

  • Students will not be able to join or reopen a meeting room without the teacher present

Updates 4/2020 Product formally renamed Google Meet (Hangouts dropped from name)

• Access extended until September 2020

• Meeting creator can approve requests to join from outside the school domain

• Meeting creator can mute or remove participants

• Teacher can generate a Google Meet link from inside SETTINGS button in Google Classroom. Article from 9 to 5 Google