Google Meet

• Google Meet Information
  • The url is meet.google.com and it is available in the waffle menu
  • Premium features are turned on, allowing staff to record Meets
  • Students cannot create Meets, they can only join Meets created by staff
• Google Chats
  • The url is chat.google.com
  • History is retained for all chats and users CANNOT change that setting
  • Students CANNOT chat with external addresses

Guidelines

• There is not an expectation that teachers have online video meetings with students, but you may if you'd like.
• If you schedule a meeting, remember that not all of your students may have internet access or availability at the time you've planned. You must have another way of delivering the information if everyone is unable to participate.
• IF you have video meetings with students, you are expected to use Google Meet as the platform -- rather than Zoom, Skype, FaceTime or another video messaging program.
• You may also use Facebook Live to make recordings (such as read-alouds) that are shared with families.

If you choose to use Google Meet, here are some quick directions for those of you who haven't used it before:

• Schedule a meeting in your own Google Calendar for the time you'd like to meet with students
• From the 'More Options' screen, select 'Add Conferencing' and 'Hangouts Meet' from the menu on the left hand side
• A Meeting ID URL will be created (starting with meets.google.com...) and you can paste this URL into Google Classroom, SeeSaw or whatever resource you are using with students.
• At the time of the meeting, you and everyone can use that URL to join. Google says that Meet will accommodate up to 100 users, although that might be a little overwhelming for anyone.