Google Meet

(Formerly Hangouts)

- For education accounts, only the meeting creator, calendar event owner, or person who sets up a meeting on an in-room hardware device can mute or remove video meeting participants. This ensures student participants can’t mute or remove one another or the teacher.
- When using Hangouts, participants can turn off their camera to show their profile photo instead. This can improve video meeting quality if internet speed is slow. If audio quality is poor, use a phone for audio instead.
- For large classes, use a live stream instead of having students join an interactive video class meeting. To engage students while live streaming, you can use Google Slides Q&A. Or, you can pre-record a lesson to share later.
- To help students who are deaf or hard of hearing, turn on live captions in Meet. To capture student responses for a recorded class, use Google Slides Q&A.

- Keep your Hangout link private. Don't ever share your link publicly. Don't allow your students to share the link publicly.
- Change your Hangout link between each meeting. Don't reuse the link for multiple meetings.
- Teachers and therapists should always be the one making first contact with students or families. Students should not be calling or video conferencing staff first.

If you need help using Google Hangouts, please contact your Innovative Learning Coach