Learn how to collaborate better in Google Meet with the quick tips on this page. Use these tips to improve your communication and group interactions.
Tips to communicate
Tips for group interactions
Tips to communicate
Raise your hand to speak
You can virtually raise your hand in a video meeting to:
- Let others know you have a question.
- Indicate that you want to speak.
Pin a meeting participant or presentation
You can pin up to 6 participants and presentations at the same time.
Important:
- You can't pin in Companion mode. Learn more about Companion mode.
- You can only pin when you join with full audio and video.
- If you use a sign language interpreter, pin the presentation and interpreter.
Pin up to 6 participants or presentations
If the participants or presentations are on the layout:
- In the meeting, hover over a tile and click Pin
.
- Optional: To unpin, hover over the tile and click Unpin
.
If the participants aren't on the layout:
- At the bottom right of the meeting, click People
.
- Next to the meeting participant or presentation, click More actions
Pin to the screen
.
- To pin for your screen only, click For myself only.
- To pin for everyone’s screen, click For everyone.
Tip: When you pin the maximum number of participants and presentations, you get a prompt.
Learn how to pin or mute in Google Meet.
Reverse your camera on a mobile device
On the Meet app, in a video meeting, you can reverse the camera on your mobile device. For example, you can show a whiteboard or notes in the room you're in.
Reverse your camera on mobile
- On your mobile device, open the Meet app
.
- Join a video meeting.
- At the top right, tap Switch camera
.
Share meeting info
To give your guests important event info, you can add meeting details, documents, spreadsheets, notes, and other files directly to an event.
Tips for group interactions
Hold a Q&A session
You can use Q&A to submit and upvote questions in a video meeting.
When you use Q&A, you don't disrupt the flow of the meeting or presentation. The moderator gets a report of all questions after the meeting.
Ask a question
- In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities
Questions.
- At the bottom right, click Ask a question.
- Enter your question.
- Click Post.
- To ask your question anonymously, select Post Anonymously.
Find, upvote, or delete a question
- In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities
Questions. Then:
- To view everyone's questions, click All questions.
- To view only your questions, click My questions.
- To sort questions by popularity or chronologically, next to "Popular," click Down
an option.
- To upvote a question, on the question, click Upvote
.
- To delete a question, on the question, click Delete
.
Learn how to ask participants questions in Google Meet.
Use a virtual whiteboard to brainstorm
To brainstorm with others on a virtual whiteboard, you can use third-party add-ons, such as Miro, to collaborate with other video call participants in real-time. Learn about add-ons in Meet.
Create or vote in a poll
Use a poll to:
- Identify topics that need more discussion.
- Get real-time feedback.
The moderator gets an email report with the answers and names of all participants after the meeting.
Create a poll (for moderators)
- In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities
Polls.
- Click Start a poll.
- Enter a question and options.
- Tip: To let users respond anonymously, before you save or launch the poll, turn on Responses appear with names
.
- Select one:
- To post your poll, click Launch.
- To save your poll to launch later, click Save.
- To vote in your own poll, select an option
Vote.
Tips:
- Polls save for the duration of the meeting. Afterwards, polls delete.
- Moderators get a poll report in their email at the end of the meeting.
Vote in a poll (for participants)
- In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities
Polls.
- Pick your response.
- Click Vote.
Tip: After you vote, you cannot change your response.
Learn how to conduct polls in Google Meet.
Use breakout rooms
If the moderator allows, you can join a breakout room during a meeting and have a discussion in a smaller group.
Tips:
- After non-Google users join the main meeting, you can add them to a breakout room as anonymous users.
- You can’t add non-Google users to breakout rooms through Google Calendar.
- You can’t live stream or record breakout rooms.
Add breakout rooms to a Calendar event
For a new event:
- Open Google Calendar.
- Create an event.
- Click Add Google Meet video conferencing.
- Add participants.
- Click Change conference settings
.
- On the left, click Breakout rooms
.
- Select the number of breakout rooms, then either:
- Drag participants into a different room.
- Enter names directly into a room.
- To randomly mix the groups, click Shuffle
.
- Click Save.
For an event that already exists:
- Open Google Calendar.
- Open an event.
- Click Edit event
.
- Under "Event Details," click Change conference settings
.
- On the left, click Breakout rooms
.
- Select the number of breakout rooms, then either:
- Drag participants into a different room.
- Enter names directly into a room.
- To randomly mix the groups, click Shuffle
.
- Click Save.
Create breakout rooms in a meeting
- In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities
Breakout rooms.
- Tip: In a work or school account, admins can control who can create a breakout room.
- Select the number of breakout rooms. You can create up to 100 breakout rooms in a call.
- Participants are distributed across the rooms. To manually move participants into rooms, you can:
- Drag participants into a different room.
- Enter names directly into a room.
- To randomly mix the groups, click Shuffle
.
- At the bottom right, click Open rooms.
Learn how to use breakout rooms in Google Meet.
Live stream a video meeting
- Enterprise Starter
- Enterprise Plus
- Enterprise Standard
- Education Plus
- Teaching and Learning Upgrade
To present to an audience of 250 participants, use Meet or Calendar to create a live stream event. You can also add up to 100,000 view-only guests. You can’t display or hear view-only guests in the meeting. They can’t present, record, or control the stream.
Track attendance in a video meeting
- Enterprise Starter
- Enterprise Plus
- Enterprise Standard
- Education Plus
- Teaching and Learning Upgrade
Use attendance reports to keep track of who attended your meeting and for how long. The organizer receives the attendance report in their email after the meeting. The attendance report is a Google Sheet with participant names, emails, and the length of time they stayed on the call.
Track attendance in Google Meet
Inside a meeting:
- At the bottom, click Host controls
.
- In the side panel, turn on Attendance tracking.
Track attendance from your Google Calendar
For a new event:
- Open Google Calendar.
- Create a new event.
- Click Add Google Meet video conferencing.
- On the right, click Change conference settings
.
- Select Attendance tracking
Save.
For a meeting that already exists:
- Open Google Calendar.
- Select a meeting
Edit event
.
- Under the event details, click Change conference settings
.
- Click Attendance tracking
Save.
Learn how to track attendance in Google Meet.