Google Meet

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Start a video meeting from Meet

1. In a web browser, enter https://meet.google.com.
2. Click Join or Start a meeting.
3. Create a nickname for your meeting and enter the nickname. This will allow users to close the meeting after students have left and shut the room down. Click Continue.
4. Click Join now.

Schedule a video meeting

Schedule a video meeting from Google Calendar:

It's easy to schedule a Meet video meeting in Google Calendar— simply create an event.

Steps are as follows:

1. In Calendar, create an event.
2. Click Save.

Start a video meeting from Gmail

1. Open Gmail .
2. In the sidebar, click Start a meeting.
3. In the Meet window, choose an option to join the meeting:
   • To join using your computer’s camera for video and your computer's microphone for audio, click Join now.

What’s recorded in a video meeting

As a best practice, it’s always good to inform other meeting participants before you start recording.

Recordings include the active speaker and anything that’s presented.

Recordings are saved to the organizer’s Meet Recordings folder in My Drive. An email with the recording link is sent to the meeting organizer and the person who started the recording. The link is added to the Calendar event.

Other windows or notifications are not included. Pinning a participant won’t affect who is shown in the recording.

If a participant turns on live captions during recording, the captions won't be recorded and don't open when you play the recording.

Play, share, download, or save a recording

In Google Drive

Recordings save to the meeting organizer’s My Drive > Meet Recordings folder. However, if the organizer changes or if the meeting occurs outside of the scheduled Calendar time, the recording link is sent to the original event creator.

To share a recording:

1. Select the file Share .
2. Or, click Link paste the link in an email or chat message.

To add a recording to My Drive, select the file and click Add to My Drive .

From an email link

An email with the recording link is sent to the meeting organizer and the person who started the recording.

1. In the email, click the link and wait for the recording to open.
2. Select an option:
   • To play the recording, click Play .
   • To share the recording, click the 3 dots, Share. Enter usernames or email addresses and click Done.

Tip: You can also copy and share a link.

To download the file, click Download.

To add the recording to the current folder, click Add to My Drive .

In the Google Calendar event

If the recording starts at the scheduled meeting time, the recording links to the Google Calendar event. Meeting participants in the same organizational unit as the meeting organizer are automatically granted access to the recording. This only applies to meetings created via a Google Calendar.