Turn on Meet meetings and calls for your organization

This page is for administrators who manage Meet for an organization or school. To manage your own Meet calls, go to Start or schedule a Google Meet video meeting.

If you manage Google Workspace for an organization or school, turn on Google Meet so your users can use Meet for meetings and phone calls. You can also decide which features and privileges your users have access to.

Choose your edition below:

• Business / Enterprise—Non-Education editions
• Education—Education editions

When the Google Meet service is on for a Google Workspace Education edition, users at your school can:

• Join Meet meetings and calls in Google Meet 
• Continue to use other conferencing services 

 With an Education edition, you can also control whether users can create Meet meetings and calls. When both settings are on, people can use Meet in the  integrated Gmail experience.

Let users join Meet meetings and calls (Education editions)

Allow users to join Meet meetings and calls

To allow users at your school to join Meet meetings, turn on the Google Meet service.

1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

2. Go to Menu  Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet.

   Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.

3. To turn on Meet for everyone, click Service statusOn for everyone.

   Note: If you use an Education edition, this setting turns on Meet for teachers and students.

4. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Learn more about organizational structure.
5. (Optional) To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.

Let users create meetings and calls (Education editions)

Before you begin: If needed, learn how to apply the setting to a department or group.

1. Go to Menu  Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet.

   Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.

2. (Optional) To apply the setting only to some users, at the side, select an organizational unit (often used for departments) or configuration group (advanced). Show me how

   Group settings override organizational units. Learn more

   Recommended: Only select organizational units that contain faculty and staff. If you use Classroom and have verified teachers, you can select your Classroom Teachers group.

3. Click Meet video settings.

4. Click Call Creation and check the Users can create their own meetings or make calls box.
5. Click Save. Or, you might click Override for an organizational unit.

   To later restore the inherited value, click Inherit (or Unset for a group).

You can also control meeting access, such as joining a meeting by phone. Learn more.

After turning on Meet for an education organization

Go to Set up Meet (for Education admins).

Control Meet safety settings

You control who can join meetings and calls in your domain and which meetings and calls your users can join. For details, go to Manage Meet safety settings. 

Grant access to manage Meet settings (optional)

Give someone else admin privileges to help you manage Google Meet. 

Learn more:

• Assign specific admin roles to a user
• Create, edit, and delete custom admin roles
• Pre-built administrator roles

Review HIPAA compliance

Organizations subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) should review HIPAA Compliance with Google Workspace and Cloud Identity.