Google Meet

With Google Meet, you can start video meetings in Google Classroom, Google Meet, Google Calendar, and Gmail.

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Teachers, please use the instructions below to use Google Meet

The Google Meet Interface

Google Meet settings

Change Layout Settings

The specific settings seen below are NOT the ones that we will be using at SU76. For those settings, please choose the camera that is installed in your classroom, and for audio, choose your airpods, headphones, or speakers.

Audio Settings

Video Settings

Several other ways to use Meet

Schedule a video meeting from Google Calendar

It's easy to schedule a Meet video meeting in Google Calendar—just create an event and add your guests to it. A video meeting link and dial-in number (if you are a G Suite user) is added to a Calendar event either by inviting one or more guests to the event, or by clicking Add conferencing.

Note: Guests can forward the meeting link to other people. If someone tries to join who was not invited to the Calendar event, a meeting participant from your organization must accept their request. For meetings organized by a personal Google Account, only the meeting creator can admit these participants.

Steps are as follows:

  1. In Calendar, create an event.

  2. Click Add guests and enter the names or email of the people you want to invite.

  3. Click Save.

  4. Click Send to notify guests.

Schedule a video meeting from Microsoft® Outlook®:

To schedule a meeting with Outlook®, go to Add Meet video meetings to Outlook.

Schedule a video meeting in another scheduling system:

  1. Start a video meeting from Gmail or Meet (steps below).

  2. Copy the meeting details to an event created in your scheduling system.

Join a video meeting from a Google Calendar event

Find your scheduled meetings in Calendar and quickly join a video meeting.

  1. In Google Calendar, click the event you want to join.

  2. Click Join with Google Meet.

  3. In the window that opens, click Join Now.

Start a video meeting from Gmail

Start a video call

  1. Open Gmail.

  2. In the bottom left corner, under “Meet,” click Start a meeting .

  3. To send the meeting invite via link or email, click Send invite.

    • To copy the meeting invite details, click Copy meeting invite.

    • To send an email invite, click Share via email.

  4. When you’re ready to join the meeting, click Join now.

  5. Before you join your first meeting, make sure to allow permissions for your Microphone and Camera. Once you have granted permission,

    • To turn your microphone on or off, click Microphone .

    • To turn your camera on or off, click Camera .

  6. To enter the call, click Join now.

  7. To end the call, click Leave call .

Join a video call

  1. Open Gmail.

  2. In the bottom left corner, click My meetings to join a video call that is upcoming on your calendar.

  3. Under “My Meetings,” hover over the upcoming meeting you’d like to join click Join.
    Tips:

    • Only meetings scheduled in Google calendar will show up under “My Meetings.”

    • You can click on any of your upcoming meetings to view the call details or make changes.

    • If your upcoming meeting is not on your calendar, click Join a meeting. Enter the meeting code or nickname click Join.

  4. Before you join your first meeting, make sure to allow permissions for your Microphone and Camera. Once you have granted permission,

    • To turn your microphone on or off, click Microphone .

    • To turn your camera on or off, click Camera .

  5. To enter the call, click Join now.

  6. To leave the call, click Leave call .

Start a video meeting from Meet

For G Suite users (using Meet with a work or school account)

  1. Go to Google Meet.

  2. Click Join or Start a meeting.

  3. Optional: Create a nickname for your meeting and enter the nickname. Click Continue.

  4. Click Join now.

  5. To add someone to a meeting, choose an option:

    • Click Copy joining info and paste the meeting details into an email or another app.

    • Click Add people and choose an option:

      • Under the Invite section, select a name, or enter an email address and click Send invite.

      • Under the Call section, enter a phone number and press Call .

Links

This is where most of the information on this page came from. This link will have the latest instructions including new features.


The video below is worth watching, however please be aware that some features and settings may not be the same for SU76 as we did not produce this tutorial.