This article is for Education edition administrators. Other admins can go to Google Meet security & privacy for IT admins.
Keep your meetings safe with Google Meet. Meet takes advantage of Google's secure-by-design infrastructure, built-in protection, and global network to keep your meetings secure and private.
Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals and Google Workspace for Education Plus have extra features to keep school meetings secure and private. For example, teachers can prevent students from reusing class meetings.
If you already have the Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals or Google Workspace for Education Plus editions, you don’t have to set up new identities or deploy any additional resources to get started with Meet.
Google Meet security
Improve school security
Follow the tips in this article to ensure high-quality video meetings without disruptions.
IT admins
- Prepare your network—Provide high-quality video meetings. For details, go to Prepare your network for Meet meetings & live streams.
- Manage permissions—Give organizational units that contain only faculty and staff permission to start, record, or livestream meetings. For details, go to Set up Meet (for education admins).
- Protect meetings—Protect your meetings by turning off telephony. When PSTN is turned on, anyone with the dial-in number and meeting PIN can join the call.
- Monitor performance—View meeting analytics with the Meet Quality Tool.
Teachers
Prevent students from reusing class meetings
Use nicknamed meetings instead of calendar events so that students can't rejoin after the class has ended. Meeting nicknames expire after all users leave the meeting.
Only Google Workspace users can create meetings with nicknames. To create a nicknamed meeting, use one of the following methods:
- Go to https://meet.google.com or the Meet mobile app and enter a meeting nickname in the "Join or start a meeting” field.
- Use the Meet code automatically generated by Google Classroom.
If a teacher reuses a nickname, students still can't rejoin the meeting after the final participant has left. The 10-digit meeting code also expires after everyone has left the meeting.
Important: Only Google Workspace users can create meetings with nicknames. Meeting codes expire instantly once all users leave the meeting.
When a teacher starts a nicknamed meeting, it creates a 10-character meeting code and temporarily associates that code with the nickname. Users in the same domain can join using the nickname; users outside the domain can join if the teacher shares the temporary meeting code, found in the meeting’s URL.
After the last person has left the meeting, the temporary meeting code expires, as well as the association between the nickname and meeting code. If students haven’t been granted permission to create meetings, they cannot use the nickname or the meeting code. Teachers can re-use the nickname, which will create a new temporary meeting code, at which point students can use the nickname to rejoin.
