New Features in Google Meet Enterprise Edition
New Features in Google Meet Enterprise Edition
As of this week, we are assigning Google Meet for Education Enterprise Edition licenses to our district teaching staff, as well as interventionists who work with our distance learning students.
Our enterprise subscription comes with some new features to be aware of when using Google Meet. Each feature is outlined below. Please let me know if you would like assistance with any of the features or to chat about how to use them in your classroom.
Digital Whiteboard
Digital Whiteboard
Now you can use a whiteboard to make your Meet lessons more interactive—start by preparing your digital whiteboard in advance of your lesson. When it’s time to start a class session, whiteboards are view-only to the class by default but can be made collaborative so all students can edit and build on one another’s ideas. Both teachers and students can present a whiteboard, but the teacher can restrict this using the “who is allowed to present” setting. If presentations are restricted, then students will still be able to view and collaborate on the teacher’s whiteboard.
This integration helps students collaborate and build on one another’s ideas.
Breakout Rooms
Breakout Rooms
Breakout rooms allow educators to split students into simultaneous small group discussions. With breakout rooms, teachers will be able to mirror their in-classroom teaching methods in Meet.
To Use:
Click on the shapes icon in your Google Meet menu.
Choose “Breakout rooms”
Choose the amount of rooms you’d like.
If you want to, you can click and type to rename each breakout room.
Add students to breakout rooms in one of three ways:
Drag the student names from the “Main Call” box into each Breakout room.
Click the “Shuffle” button to automatically add students to random groups.
Click in the grey box under each group, and type student names.
At this point, you can make small adjustments to groups before clicking “Open rooms.”
**I have tested the breakout room feature on a number of different devices (chromebooks, computers, iPads and phones) and the phone did not allow participation in a breakout room. Keep this in mind for any student participating in the meet using their phone.
**If a person is greyed out, as shown in the image, it means that they disconnected from the Google Meet.
Over the next few months, we'll see new features added like a timer and an "ask for help" option for participants to get the teacher's attention.
Attendance Reports
Attendance Reports
Taking attendance can be time consuming, especially with remote classes. You can save time with attendance reports. The report includes each participant’s name, email and the length of time the participant was on call, including initial join and exit time. Meeting organizers will securely receive these reports AUTOMATICALLY via email after meetings with more than five participants have ended. Later this year you’ll get host controls to give teachers the choice to turn this feature on/off for each meeting.
Attendance tracking reports will automatically be sent to meeting organizers, sharing participant names, emails and length of time in meeting.
Q and A
Q and A
The new Q&A feature allows students to ask questions without disrupting the flow of the lesson or discussion. Students can click the shapes at the top, and click “Q&A” to ask a question. Other students can upvote questions so the teacher knows which to answer first. For better control, teachers can hide any questions and can enable or disable question submission at any time.
To Use:
Click the shapes icon and select “Q&A”
Toggle “Allow questions.”
Check for questions using the same method.
Polling
Polling
And lastly, polling allows teachers to periodically check in to make sure students understand the classwork and aren't falling behind. Instant feedback also allows teachers to adjust curriculum when students require extra development on certain subjects. Polls can also make classes fun with icebreakers to revive class engagement, start discussions or debate a topic. Checkout some tips on how to use Q&A and Polls here.
To Use:
Click the activities icon (multiple shapes.)
Select “Polls”
Type your question and options, and then click “Launch.”
Raising Hand/Asking for Help
Raising Hand/Asking for Help
Raise Hand
Raise Hand
Google Meet participants can now let you know if they have a question or indicate that they would like to speak by raising their hand in Meet. To raise your hand in Meet, click on the “Raise Hand” button on the bottom bar during the meeting. Once the button is pressed, it will change to a “Lower Hand” button, which can be clicked to lower your hand.
When a participant raises their hand, the meeting’s moderator will see a hand icon in their video preview. If the moderator is presenting in another tab, they’ll get a sound notification when someone raises their hand. The moderator will also be able to see all raised hands in the order they were raised in the meeting participant list panel to help them address questions accordingly. The moderator can lower a specific person’s hand or lower all hands.
Ask For Help
Ask For Help
In a breakout room, students can also "ask for help" which signals to the teacher in the main call that a group would like assistance!
Teachers can see these alerts within their Breakout Room sidebar.
Other Enterprise Edition Features:
Other Enterprise Edition Features:
Unlimited Recording of Meets that Save to Google Drive (No Temporary Recordings)
Option to Turn Meet into Live Stream Link
Option to Dial In to a Google Meet
Unlimited Originality Reports in Google Classroom
This means that you can run student writing through Google to see if students have plagiarized in their writing.
We can add student work to a school and/or district library so that future submissions are checked against past submissions.
Google Cloud Search is AMAZING! It allows you to search for anything across all of your Google Apps. For example, if I was looking for something on Jamboard, I can search for it in Cloud Search, and it will show my emails, Drive files, calendar invitations, and more where Jamboards are located! It’s a great way to find what you are looking for in one place.
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