Google Meet allows you to host video meetings or classes up to 250 people at a time. Including many standard features such as breakout rooms, collaborative whiteboard, polling, grid view up to 49 people, closed captions for students and teachers, changing backgrounds, and more updates constantly coming. You can also RECORD your session and post videos for anyone who missed instruction or meetings.
Google Meet also directly integrates with your Google Classroom. Each class is provided a unique code and space that has you the educator as the leader of the session. Students cannot join until you're present in the meeting and allows you to control your class in a digital space.
This video below from Instructional Coach Jaclyn Hunter gives a great overview of Google Meet with Classroom in 2022.
An in-depth guide to all things Google Meet and Google Classroom integration.
You as the meeting creator or host will have an option to “End the Call” or “Leave the Meeting” here is the difference:
End the Call - This will end the call for everyone involved and stop them from returning. It truly ends the call. You the host can return but anyone else would have to ask to come back.
Leave the Call - The call can continue without you. This is also the method to keep a Meet link from dying out. If it’s a recurring meeting that you utilize often, DO NOT END IT. Just simply leave so you and the other participants can come back later.