Your school or organization can use Google Meet for video class meetings.
- If you use Classroom, students and teachers get a dedicated link to join video meetings.
- If you use Education or Enterprise for Education, each video meeting is limited to 300 hours.
Set up Meet
Step 1: Turn on Meet video callingWhen the Google Meet service is on, users can join video meetings in your organization. You can also let users create video meetings.
Note: You can still use other video conferencing services when Meet is turned on.
Allow users to join video meetings
To allow users to join video meetings in your organization, turn on the Google Meet service.
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
Google Workspace
Google Meet.
- Next to Service status, click the Down arrow
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To turn on or off a service for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.
Note: This enables or disables Meet for both staff and students. -
(Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:
- At the left, select the organizational unit.
- Select On or Off.
- Click Override to keep your setting if the service for the parent organizational unit is changed.
- If Overridden is already set for the organizational unit, choose an option:
- Inherit—Reverts to the same setting as its parent.
- Save—Saves your new setting (even if the parent setting changes).
Learn more about organizational structure.
- To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to turn on a service for a group.
- Click Save.
Allow users to create new video meetings
To let users create new video meetings, turn on the Video calling setting with the Google Meet settings:
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
Google Workspace
Google Meet.
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Click Meet video settings.
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To apply the setting to everyone, leave the top organizational unit selected. Otherwise, select a child organizational unit or a configuration group.
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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.
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- Click Video calling.
- Check the Let users place video and voice calls box.
- Click Save.
You can also update other video meeting access, such as joining a meeting by phone. Learn more
Recommended only for faculty and staff
You can put your teachers and students into separate organizational units and apply separate permissions to each organization. If you use Classroom, you can give access to your verified Classroom Teachers group.
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
Google Workspace
Google Meet.
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Click Meet video settings.
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To apply the setting to everyone, leave the top organizational unit selected. Otherwise, select a child organizational unit or a configuration group.
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Click Stream.
- Check the Let people stream their meetings box.
- Click Save.
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Supported editions for this feature: Business Standard and Plus; Enterprise; Education* and Enterprise for Education; Essentials. Compare your edition
* Education edition customers can continue recording meetings until temporary recordings become available in 2021. Temporary recordings will let Education customers record a meeting and share the recording within their organization for up to 30 days before the recording expires.
Recommended only for faculty and staff
You can put your teachers and students into separate organizational units and apply separate permissions to each organization. If you use Classroom, you can give access to your verified Classroom Teachers group.
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
Google Workspace
Google Meet.
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Click Meet video settings.
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To apply the setting to everyone, leave the top organizational unit selected. Otherwise, select a child organizational unit or a configuration group.
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Click Recording.
- Check the Let people record their meetings box.
- Click Save.
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
Google Workspace
Google Meet.
- Click the Meet video settings section to expand it.
The Meet settings page shows the features that are turned on or off for that user, group, or organizational unit. - On the left, select an option.
- To search by username, click Users and search for the username. Meet settings can’t be changed for an individual user. Instead, add them to an organizational unit or a group that has the correct Meet settings.
- To search by group, click Groups and search for the group name or email address. To turn a Meet feature on or off for that group, click a setting name, change the setting, and click Override.
- To search by organizational unit, click Organizational Units and select or search for an organizational unit. To turn a Meet feature on or off for that organizational unit, click a setting name, change the setting and click Override.
Changes typically take effect in minutes, but can take up to 24 hours. For details, go to How changes propagate to Google services.
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- To ensure teachers or students don't share accounts, provision one account for each user. Learn more
- To limit Meet bandwidth, set the default video quality in the Google Admin console. Learn more
- To understand Meet usage and troubleshoot issues, use the Meet Quality tool and Google Meet activity logs. Learn more
- If Meet is unavailable or you experience performance issues, use the Meet troubleshooting guide. Learn more
New Meet features to support distance learning
Get attendance reports for moderatorsMeet must be turned on for the primary teacher in the class.
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Quick access is turned on by default. After you start a video meeting, you can change the setting as often as you need using Meet on a computer.
Tip: If you turn Quick access on or off in recurring meetings that re-use the same meeting code, the setting will be saved for future meetings. If you turn Quick access on or off in a one-time, nicknamed, or instant meeting, the setting will return to on after the meeting ends.
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- Mute or remove participants. If a teacher removes a participant, they can't request to rejoin the video meeting. The teacher must invite them back into the meeting.
- See, approve, and deny external requests to join the meeting. Guests from inside or outside of your domain can't request to join a video meeting if they've already been denied entry twice.
- Prevent participants from:
- Sharing their screen during the meeting
- Sending chat messages during the meeting
Tip: If you turn presentations or chat off in recurring meetings or meetings that use the same meeting code, the setting will be saved for the next scheduled meeting. If you turn presentations or chat off in a one-time, nicknamed, or instant meeting, the setting will turn on after the meeting ends.
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Train teachers and students to use Meet
View support and training resources- To improve video meeting quality, participants can turn off their camera and show their profile photo instead.
- If audio quality is poor, use a phone for audio instead. Learn more
- For large classes, create a live stream event instead of having students join an interactive video class meeting. Learn more
- Record a lesson and share it later. Learn more
- To engage students watching a live stream or recorded meeting, you can accept and present questions in Google Slides. Learn more
- To help students who are deaf or hard of hearing, turn on live captions in Meet. Learn more
- Review best practices for distance learning using Meet. Learn more
FAQ
How long are the premium Google Meet features available to Education edition customers?Yes. You can turn on Meet, but disable classic Hangouts by turning on the Meet service and setting the Google Chat and classic Hangouts service to Chat only or Both turned off.
Only the meeting creator or calendar owner can approve requests to join a meeting by video from outside of your domain. External guests can’t request to join a video meeting if they’ve already been denied entry twice.
If the meeting creator needs to leave before the meeting ends, they should first approve any requests they want to allow. During a meeting, no other participants can see or approve external requests.
The meeting creator can’t:
- Allow external guests to join a meeting in progress automatically.
- Allow others to accept requests from external participants to join a meeting.