Google Meet Video Conference
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See the premium features all PPS staff can access. Get Google Meet training and help.
Click here to see a Google Meet / Zoom comparison chart.
Features
Add Co-Hosts & Host Management
When host management is turned on, meeting hosts can use the following safety features:
Chat lock
Present lock
Audio lock
Video lock
End meeting for everyone
Mute everyone
With host management, you can add up to 25 co-hosts to a Google Meet meetings. You can also transfer ownership of a Google Meet to another person via Google Calendar.
Breakout rooms allow educators to split students into simultaneous small group discussions. Added features include a timer and an "ask for help" option for participants to get the teacher's attention. You can also create breakout rooms in advance on Google Calendar. Follow this link for directions to create self-selecting or differentiated Google Meet breakout rooms.
Teachers can save time with attendance reports, now rolling out to PPS staff. 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 can securely receive these reports after meetings with more than five participants.
You can find all controls in the bottom bar of the meeting window. The bottom bar is always visible.
The meeting code is on the bottom left corner.
When the screen is maximized, a clock appears on the bottom left.
Microphone, camera, captions, hand raise, presentation controls, more options and hang up button are in the middle.
So you don’t accidentally hang up, the leave meeting button is on the far right, away from the camera and mic buttons.
Tip: When you point to a button, the name of the button appears.
On the bottom right, you can find meeting details like joining info, the people panel, the chat panel, and the activities panel for Breakout rooms, Polls, Q&A, and more.
Important: Education users can find the Host controls button next to the activities panel.
You can now simultaneously see other participants and what you present on-screen. Point to your presentation feed to:
Unpin your presentation to view it as a tile so you can see additional participants.
Mute any audio in your presentation.
Remove a presentation from a meeting when someone joins only to present.
You can't interact with presentation content from the meeting window. You can change slides or scroll through the document from the window you present.
Tip: For better presentations and to avoid mirroring, you should share your content from a different tab (strongly recommended) or window than the meeting window. If you need to share your entire screen, move your presentation to a different monitor if possible.
Educators also have new meeting controls to manage who can share their screen and who can send chat messages within the meeting to make the distance learning environment as safe as possible.
To help limit distractions or make meetings more fun, you can now blur or replace your background or replace it with an image, an immersive background, or a video. You can also apply styles to customize your video with various light, color filters and stylized backgrounds.
You can now see up to 49 people at the same time in the auto and tiled layout options in Google Meet.
In addition, you the ability to see yourself as a tile on the call. When you hover over your thumbnail in the top right corner, you’ll now see the option to add or remove yourself from the grid. These changes are only visible to you.
You can use Jamboard 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.
The new Q&A feature, which G Suite Enterprise for Education customers will see in the coming days, allows students to ask questions without disrupting the flow of the lesson or discussion. Students can post their questions to a queue and 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.
And lastly, polling, now rolling out for G Suite Enterprise for Education customers. 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.
