Google Meet

Lacey Adams

Google Meet is like a FaceTime app, but better. Similar to Google Hangouts, it is a super easy, free video call website and app. Meet, however, is meant to be more of a business-friendly alternative to Hangouts that can hold up to 25 participants.

Step by step guide:

Open the Hangouts Meet app.

Tap Menu menu.
Tap Use a meeting code.
Enter the meeting code and choose an option: If you're signed in to your G Suite account, click Join. If you're not signed in to your G Suite account, click Ask to join the meeting.

For more detailed instructions, visit https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/meet/get-started/#!/

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FAQs

Q: Is Meet only available on a computer?

You can use Meet on any computer, Android, iPhone or iPad device using the Hangouts Meet app.

Q: What's the difference between Google Hangouts and Google Meet?

The main difference is Google Hangouts can have up to 25 participants at a time, while Google Meet can have up to 50, but only using G-Suite Enterprise for a fee of $25 a month. For G-Suite Enterprise for Education, however, students, faculty, and staff only have to pay a fee of $4 a month.

You can also dial into a meeting and record a meeting in Meet, but not in Hangouts.

Benefits to using Google Meet

In the classroom:

Students can use Meet to form group calls if they need to work on projects, homework, get notes from one another, etc.

Teachers can use Meet to set up conferences with parents, other teachers, principals, etc. They can even use it to have online class sessions.

Out the classroom:

Businesses can use Meet to have conferences.

Have a group call with a bunch of friends all at one time.

Additional Info:

You can screen share
You can call join a group call by using a given phone number or meeting code

Activities

4th Grade Social Studies

4.1.1 Construct timelines of historical events

Activity: Groups will only use Google Meet to work on this activity. Each group will be given a time period. Each group member is to pick 2 events within that time period and construct a timeline of the events with other group members. Discuss over Google Meet what events are being chosen and where they belong on the timeline.

8th Grade Health

1-M-4.1 Identify the causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention of various diseases and disorders.

Activity: Using only Google Meet to communicate, groups will pick a disease/disorder and research the causes, symptoms, treatments and preventions. Once research is done, groups will come together in class to create a poster from the research done.

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