Assign moderated contributor roles in Google Meet

For the best experience and to scale attendance for large meetings, enable all participants as moderated contributors. When you enable moderated contributor roles, you get the option to also designate some attendees as contributors.

Moderated contributors can:

• Observe the meeting
• Raise their hand
• Participate in activities, such as Q&A and polls
• Use reactions

Tip: 'View only' displays at the bottom next to the meeting name when you are in a moderated contributor role.

Participants can't:

• Share audio or video
• Share their screen
• Chat

Learn which Google Workspace editions have the moderated contributor role

You can pre-set meeting attendees as viewers in the following Workspace editions:

• Google Workspace Business Standard
• Business Plus
• Enterprise Standard
• Enterprise Essentials
• Education Fundamentals
• Education Standard
• Teaching and Learning Upgrade
• Education Plus
• Enterprise Essentials Plus
• Enterprise Plus

Tip: In Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Essentials Plus and Education Plus, after 500 contributors have joined, the next 500 will automatically join in viewer mode.

Turn on Everyone is a moderated contributor

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. Create a new meeting and add guests.
3. In the Google Calendar meeting invitation, open Host controls .
4. Turn on Host management.
5. On the 'Guests' tab, turn on Everyone is a moderated contributor by default.
6. Optional: Add contributors.
   • To add contributors, add guests to the invite.
   • Tip: If their email isn't displayed, make sure that they've been added to the invite first.

Change a participant from moderated contributor to contributor

Important: A host can change a moderated contributor to a contributor and back to a moderated contributor while on the web or when using picture-in-picture mode on the computer.

When a moderated contributor raises their hand, the host or co-host can make the moderated contributor a contributor.

As a host or co-host:

1. From the top-right corner of your meeting screen, click People.
   • Important: Make sure that you click on people. If you just hover over the people panel, you won't be able to see the list of meeting attendees.
2. Select the participant Make a contributor .

Related resources

• Start or schedule a Google Meet video meeting
• Add co-hosts in Google Meet