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Google Meet is a video conferencing app. Google Meet integrates with Google Classroom, Google Calendar, and Gmail and shows the complete list of participants and scheduled meetings.
From Google: Extending availability of Google Meet advanced features to all customers through September 30, 2020 (April 9, 2020)
Improvements to Google Meet for distance learning (April 9, 2020)
New features to help schools keep meetings safe
We're rolling out additional features to all G Suite for Education users to improve remote learning experiences:
Only meeting creators and calendar owners can mute or remove other participants. This ensures that instructors can't be removed or muted by student participants.
Only meeting creators and calendar owners can approve requests to join made by external participants. This means that students can’t allow external participants to join via video and that external participants can’t join before the instructor.
Meeting participants can’t rejoin nicknamed meetings once the final participant has left, unless they have meeting creation privileges to start a new meeting. This means if the instructor is the last person to leave a nicknamed meeting, students can’t join again until an instructor restarts the nicknamed meeting.
Better together: Using Meet inside Classroom
To improve the experience of using Classroom as a distance learning tool, we are rolling out a Meet integration to all Classroom users. This integration will only be available if Meet is turned on for the primary teacher in the class.
Using this integration, educators can create a unique Meet link for each class, which is displayed on the Classroom Stream and Classwork pages. The link acts as a dedicated meeting space for each class, making it easy for both teachers and students to join. Only teachers can access class settings to create the Meet link. All Meet links created by the Classroom integration are nicknamed links, so students can’t join without the instructor present.
To learn more, visit the Start a class video meeting page.
How Meet keeps your video conferences protected
Google is committed to building products that help protect student and educator privacy, and provide best-in-class security for your institution. Our default-on measures help keep your meetings secure, including:
Encrypting all data in transit by default between the client and Google for video meetings on a web browser, on the Android and iOS apps, and in meeting rooms with Google meeting room hardware.
Supporting compliance requirements around regulations including COPPA, FERPA, GDPR, and HIPAA.
Making it difficult to guess the ID of a meeting and make an unauthorized attempt to join it by using codes that are 10 characters long, with 25 characters in the set.
Leveraging Google Cloud’s defense-in-depth approach to security, which utilizes the built-in protections and global-private network that Google uses to secure your information and safeguard your privacy.
Google listened to emergency requests from educators, and added features to better control your Meet sessions.
The biggest feature is improved teacher controls for nicknamed meetings Participants will not be able to re-join a meeting after the final participant has left if:
The meeting was created using a short link like g.co/meet/nickname
The meeting was created at meet.google.com by entering a meeting nickname in the "Join or start a meeting” field
The meeting was created in the Meet app by entering a nickname in the “Meeting code” field
This means if the teacher is the last person to leave these types of meetings, students cannot join later without the teacher.
In summary: When you create a meeting, you give it a nickname. Then you have to be the last person to leave.
DTL is working on a guide for this new feature, and will post it here shortly.
Google Meet Help (directly from Google)
For teachers
To learn best practices for distance learning, review the Teacher’s Guide to Hangouts Meet.
When using Meet, 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.
For students
If your mobile device can access G Suite, you can use that device to join a class video meeting.
