Host Management is available to all Google Workspace Editions. When Host Management is turned on, meeting hosts can use the following safety features:
- Chat lock
- Present lock
- Audio lock
- Video lock
- End meeting for everyone
- Mute everyone
Follow along with the Co-host rollout.
Some Workspace editions can use Host Management to add up to 25 co-hosts to their Google Meet meetings.
The following Workspace editions can add co-hosts:
- Business Standard
- Business Plus
- Essentials
- Enterprise Starter
- Enterprise Essentials
- Enterprise Standard
- Enterprise Plus
- All Workspace for education editions
Important:
- Based on your Google Workspace edition, Host Management might be on or off by default. Host Management can be turned on or off from inside a meeting. Workspace Admins can set up defaults for their domain.
- Participants must be in the meeting to become a host. Classroom meeting hosts can make teachers co-hosts before a meeting.
- Co-hosts can turn Host Management off. Only the main host can re-enable Host Management for all other hosts.
- Participants can't be appointed or removed as co-hosts from Breakout Rooms. Participants must return to the main room to be granted hosting privileges.
- Only the main host receives meeting info, like attendance reports or polling details, but can share meeting info with other co-hosts.
- Host Management settings are saved for any recurring meetings or meetings that re-use the same meeting code. Appointed co-hosts will need to be re-appointed for any recurring meetings.
- We recommend you turn on Host Management settings before you use Breakout rooms. Settings for Host Management can’t be changed after Breakout rooms are live. This prevents the designation of co-hosts who can run Breakout rooms or use meeting safety features.
- For meetings with host management switched off, anyone inside your organization can record a meeting. To allow anyone outside your organization to record a meeting, you must promote them to a co-host. If host management is on, only the main host and promoted co-hosts can start a meeting.
Add a co-host before a meeting starts
Important: We highly recommend that you add a co-host before the meeting starts.
Add a co-host to a new meeting
- On your desktop browser, go to Google Calendar.
- At the top left, click Create.
- In the drop down, select Event.
- Add meeting guests.
- If your event doesn’t have a meeting attached, click Add Google Meet video conferencing.
- Click Video call options
.
- In the pop-up menu, turn on Host Management
.
- On the left, click Co-hosts
.
- Enter the names of the participants you want to add as a co-host.
- Select their names from the drop down.
- Click Save from within the pop-up menu.
- To save the Google Calendar event, click Save
Add a co-host to an existing meeting
Important: You’ll have to be the creator of the meeting to make this change. If somebody else created the meeting then either they can add you as a co-host or transfer the meeting to you before you add co-hosts.
- On your desktop browser, go to Google Calendar.
- Click the event or meeting you want to add a co-host to.
- From the pop-up menu, click Edit event
.
- If your event doesn’t have a meeting attached, click Add Google Meet video conferencing.
- Click Video call options
.
- In the pop-up menu, turn on Host Management
.
- On the left, click on Co-hosts
.
- Enter the names of the participants you want to add as a co-host.
- Select their name from the drop down.
- Click Save from within the pop-up menu.
- To save the Google Calendar event, click Save.
Use Host Management in a meeting
Turn Host Management on or off
- On your computer, go to meet.google.com.
- Join a meeting.
- At the bottom right, click Host controls
.
- From the side panel that appears, switch on Host management
.
- To switch off, click Host Management
Turn it off
.
Add or remove a co-host
- In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Show everyone
.
- From the “People” tab, find or search the participant’s name.
- Next to their name, click Menu
Grant host controls
.
Once the new co-hosts are granted hosting privileges, the Host controls icon appears at the bottom of their screen.