Hangouts Meet improvements for remote learning
Thursday, March 19, 2020
To improve the remote learning experience for teachers and students using Hangouts Meet, we’re making several improvements:
- Only meeting creators and calendar owners can mute or remove other participants in a meeting
- Meeting participants will not be able to re-join nicknamed meetings once the final participant has left
Check out our Help Center to learn how to assign meeting creation privileges to teachers and staff members. We recommend that you assign these privileges to the organizational units (OUs) that contain your faculty and staff members.
Improved teacher controls for nicknamed meetings Participants will not be able to re-join a meeting after the final participant has left if:
- The meeting was created using a short link like g.co/meet/nickname
- The meeting was created at meet.google.com by entering a meeting nickname in the "Join or start a meeting” field
- The meeting was created in the Meet app by entering a nickname in the “Meeting code” field
We’ve also heard from some admins that they don’t want students to be able to create meetings. To do so, use this Help Center article to assign meeting creation privileges to teachers and staff only.
Additional resources for getting started with Hangouts Meet
Visit our Help Center to learn more about using Meet with low bandwidth and tips for training teachers and students.
End Users: No action is required.
- Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: These features have started rolling out and should be available to all G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers within 2-3 weeks.
- Available to G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers
- Not available to G Suite Basic, G Suite Enterprise, G Suite Business and G Suite for Nonprofits customers
- G Suite Updates Blog: Extending Hangouts Meet premium features to all G Suite customers through July 1, 2020
- Google Help: Live stream a video meeting
- Google Help: Record a video meeting
- Google Help: Start a video meeting
- Google Help: Troubleshoot issues with Hangouts Meet
- Google Help: Use captions in a video meeting
- Google Help: Accept and present audience questions
- G Suite Admin Help: Set up Meet for distance learning
- G Suite Admin Help: Prepare your network
- G Suite Admin Help: Turn on Meet video calling