Through September 30, 2020, educators and IT administrators preparing for potential school closures can access Google Meet's advanced video conferencing features such as larger meetings (up to 250 participants per call), live streaming, and meeting recording.
Recent updates:
1. Approve requests to join—During a video meeting, only the meeting creator can see and approve requests to join the meeting from outside of the school’s G Suite domain. If a teacher creates a meeting and wants to include guests with an email address that’s outside of their school domain, make sure they stay on the call until all external guests have been approved to join.
2. Manage participants—Only the meeting creator can mute or remove participants.
3. Prevent meeting reuse—Students can’t rejoin the call if teachers leave a nicknamed meeting last.
Allows you to customize the amount of students you see in your Google Meet.
Using the quick access feature under host controls to make sure you are fist to the meet and that students need permission to enter the meet.
Written instructions can be found here.
A new feature allowing teachers to easily break students into separate rooms. Teachers can easily move between rooms to facilitate.
Written instructions can be found here.
A recent update will now allow you to set up Google Meet breakout rooms in advance in Google calendar.
To learn more, click here
Participants can now virtually raise their hand to be called on by a teacher. Works great for asking questions and review games.
Jamboard is a live virtual collaborative whiteboard. Teachers and Students can type/skickynote/sketch... Integrated in Meet. See below for ideas.
Try the new Q&A feature in Meet. At the start of the meeting, encourage participants to submit and upvote their favorite questions. We’ve also found it helps to tell your audience when you plan to answer these questions, either throughout the call or at the end.
With the new feature in Google Meet automatically generating meet attendance emails, how can we manage the influx of email to our account? Take a look at the video and written directions for ideas.
Instant ice breakers, feedback or checking for progress. There are many ways the new polls feature can benefit your virtual class period.
Hangouts Meet training and help.