What is Google Meet?

Google is making enterprise-grade video conferencing available to

everyone. Now, anyone with a Google Account can create an online
meeting with up to 100 participants and meet for up to 60 minutes
per meeting.

Businesses, schools and other organisations can take advantage

of advanced features, including meetings with up to 250 internal or
external participants and live streaming to up to 100,000 viewers
within a domain.

Requirements for using Google Meet

Google Meet access requirements

You'll need a Google Account to use Google Meet.

For work or school Google Workspace users:

 A Google Workspace administrator needs to turn on Meet for your organisation. If you
cannot open Meet, contact your admin.
 You'll need to be signed in to a Google Workspace account to create a video meeting.
 Anyone inside or outside your organisation can join with a link.

For Meet video calls, you’ll need:

 The Meet mobile app or the Gmail mobile app or a supported web browser.
 A compatible device with minimum system requirements.
 A supported operating system.
 A broadband connection to the Internet. Learn how to prepare your network.
 A built-in web camera or external USB camera.

Start or schedule a Google Meet video meeting

 You can set up or start a new Google meet video meeting from:

 Meet
 Gmail
 Google Calendar
 Another scheduling system

Start a video meeting from Meet

 1. Go to Google Meet.
2. Click New meeting.
3. Select an option:
 Create a meeting for later:
 To share the meeting details for a future meeting, copy the meeting link
and share with participants.
 To directly start the meeting with this link, paste the link into a browser; or
enter the link into the 'Enter a code or link' field   click Join.
 Start an instant meeting: Create a new meeting and join the meeting directly. 
 Schedule in Google Calendar: To schedule a meeting, you will be directed
to Google Calendar.

Tip: Google Workspace Essentials users can't schedule a meeting in Google Calendar.

Start a video meeting from Gmail

Important: To start a video meeting from Gmail, you must turn on Meet in Gmail.

1. Open Gmail.
 2. In the bottom-left corner, under 'Meet', click New meeting  .
3. To send the meeting invitation via link or email, click Send invitation. 
 To copy the meeting invitation details, click Copy meeting invitation.
 To send an email invitation, click Share via email.
4. When you’re ready to join the meeting, click Join now.
5. Before you join your first meeting, make sure you allow permissions for your Microphone
and Camera. Once you have granted permission: 
 To turn your microphone on or off, click Microphone  .
 To turn your camera on or off, click Camera  .
6. To join the call, click Join now.
7. To end the call, click Leave call  .

Join a video meeting

You can join a video call from Google Meet, Google Calendar, Gmail etc. You can also dial-in to
a meeting from a phone or a meeting room or you can use Google Meet without a Google
account. 

Personal account users

You are a personal account user if you use Google Meet through Gmail or another non-paid
account.

As a personal account user, you can join:

 All meetings you are invited to by someone with a personal account. 

 Some meetings you are invited to by someone with a Google Workspace account. 
 Tip: Google Workspace Admins control if their users can invite others with a
personal google account so you can only attend meetings organized by
Workspace users who’s admins allow them to invite personal account users.

Important: You may get an invite for meetings you can’t join. If you try to join, you will reach an
error page.

Add or remove people from a video meeting

You can add people to a video meeting in Google Meet before or after the meeting starts. If you
start a meeting on the fly from Gmail, you add people after the meeting starts. You can also
remove people during a video meeting.

Add people to a video meeting in progress

Add people to a meeting

1. At the bottom right, click People     Add people  .

2. Enter the name or email address   Send email.
Share joining info

1. At the bottom right, click meeting details   .

2. Click Copy joining info.
3. Paste the meeting details into an email, or other app, and send.

Bulk admit participants to a video call 

You can bulk admit participants and students into a video call. Only the meeting organizer can
see or approve requests to join a meeting. The meeting organizer should stay in the meeting to
approve requests.

1. Click Admit or Deny entry, when a request to join the video call appears in the window.
2. Click View all when you have multiple participants waiting to join the meeting. Choose an
option:
 Next to the name, click Admit or Deny entry to admit or deny participants one at a
time.
 Click Admit all or Deny all to admit or deny all participants at the same time.

Remove people during a video meeting

1. At the bottom right, click People  .
2. Next to the participant’s name, click More actions     Remove from meeting   or
Hang up  .
End meeting for all
Important: Host Management must be turned on to use End meeting for all.

Meeting hosts can end the meeting for everyone on a video call. "End meeting for all" ends the
meeting and automatically removes all participants from the meeting, so that the hosts don’t have
to remove participants manually.

To End a meeting for all:

1. On the bottom, click Leave call  .
2. On the window that appears, click End meeting for all.

Optional: To leave the meeting but not end it for everyone, click Leave meeting.

Tip: End meeting for all will also end any open breakout rooms. If there are a lot of Breakout
rooms open, the main room will end first and all other Breakout rooms may take up to a few
minutes to end. 
Change your layout

You can change the number of participants you see on your screen. The number of tiles may
change depending on the size of your browser window.

1. On a computer, join a video meeting.

2. At the bottom, click More     Change layout  . Choose an option:
 Auto: The view that Meet chooses for you. By default, you’ll see 9 tiles on your
screen.
 Tiled: The view that can show up to 49 people at the same time. By default, you’ll
see 16 tiles on your screen.
 At the bottom, move the slider to the number of tiles you want to see on
your screen. The number of tiles you choose becomes the default for
future meetings until you change it.
 Spotlight: The active speaker or shared screen fills the entire window.
 Sidebar: The main image is the active speaker or shared screen. You’ll see
thumbnails of additional participants on the side.
3. Your new layout preference is automatically saved.
Pin or mute Google Meet participants
Pin a participant
To view one specific participant, pin them to your screen.

 Point to a person’s image   click Pin  .

 At the bottom right, click People  .
 Next to a participant’s name, click More actions     Pin to screen  .

Mute a participant’s microphone

If there is feedback or background noise in a video call, you may want to mute other participant’s
microphones.

 Point to a person’s image > click Mute  .

 At the bottom right, click People  .
 Next to a participant's name, click Mute  .
Tip: For privacy reasons, you cannot unmute another person. Ask the participant to unmute their
audio. To mute or unmute yourself, click Mute  . 

Mute all participants

Important: Host Management must be turned on to Mute all participants.

Meeting creators and calendar event owners can mute all participants at the same time.
Participants can unmute themselves after they’ve been muted.

 At the bottom right, click People     Mute all  .

Send chat messages to video call participants

You can send messages during a video call to the other video call guests from a computer or
mobile device.

Notes: 

 If you join a conference room using Google meeting room hardware, you can view the
messages, but not send any.
 Messages are visible to everyone in the call.
 You can only view the chat messages exchanged when you're on the video
call. Messages sent before you joined are not displayed, and all messages disappear
when you leave the video call.
 Important: When meetings are recorded, the chat conversation log is also saved.

Send a chat message during a video call

Computer AndroidiPhone & iPad
 1. Join a Meet video call.
2. At the bottom right, click Chat   .
3. Enter a message
4. Click Send  .

Tip: If you share a file in the chat, make sure that you give the other participants access to it.

Prevent participants from sending chat messages in a

video call
Important: Host management must be turned on to use the 'chat lock' feature.

Meeting hosts can stop participants from sending chat messages. Participants will still be able to
read the messages.

If you turn chat messages 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 chat messages off in a one-
time, nicknamed or instant meeting, the chat message setting will turn on after the meeting
ends. 

Turn chat messages on or off

1. Join a Meet video call.

2. At the bottom right, click Host controls  .

Tip: If you can't turn the setting on or off, you might need to turn off a Chrome extension for Meet.
Learn how to install and manage extensions.
Use a whiteboard in Google Meet
Start or open a Google Jamboard while in a video call. A Jamboard is a virtual dry whiteboard
where you can brainstorm ideas live with others.

Important: You can only start or open a Jamboard during a Meet call if you joined the call on a
computer. Video call participants on a mobile device or tablet will get a link to a Jamboard file
and be directed to the Jamboard app.

Start or open a Jamboard in a video call

1. Start or Join a meeting.
2. At the bottom right, click Activities     Whiteboarding. 
3. Select an option:
 To create a new Jamboard: Click Start a new whiteboard.
 To open an existing Jamboard from your drive, shared drives or computer:
Click Choose from Drive. 

      Tip: The Jamboard file will open in a new tab and a link will be shared automatically via the
in-call chat.
Use breakout rooms in Google Meet
Moderators can use breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller groups during video calls.
Breakout rooms must be started by moderators during a video call on a computer. Breakout
rooms currently can’t be live-streamed or recorded.

Anyone who schedules or starts a meeting will be the meeting host. If you transfer or schedule a
meeting on someone else's calendar, the other person could become the meeting host. By
default, there is only one meeting host per meeting, but you can add up to 25 co-hosts once
inside the meeting.

For video call moderators

You can create breakout rooms for meetings in Google Calendar when creating an event or
editing it. You can also create breakout rooms while a meeting is in progress. Co-hosts can only
be added from the main meeting.

Create breakout rooms in advance on Google Calendar

In calendar.google.com, choose either:

For a new meeting

1. Create a new Google Calendar event.

2. Click Add Google Meet video conferencing.
3. Add participants.
4. Click Change conference settings  .
5. On the left, click Breakout rooms  .
6. Choose the number of breakout rooms, then choose an option:
 Drag participants into different rooms.
 Enter names directly into a room.
 Click Shuffle   to mix the groups.
7. Click Save

For an existing meeting

1. Open an existing Google Calendar event.

2. Click Edit event  .
3. Under Event details, click Change conference settings  .
4. On the left, click Breakout rooms  .
5. Choose the number of breakout rooms, then choose an option:
 Drag participants into different rooms
 Enter their name directly into a room
 Click Shuffle   to mix the groups
6. Click Save

Create breakout rooms during a meeting

1. On your computer, start a video call. 

2. At the bottom right, click Activities     Breakout rooms.
 Tip: To prevent students from having the ability to create breakout rooms, admins
should reserve Meet creation privileges for faculty or staff only.
3. In the breakout rooms creation panel, choose the number of breakout rooms. You can
create up to 100 breakout rooms in a call. 
 4. Call participants are distributed across the rooms. To manually move people into different
rooms, you can:
 Enter the participant’s name directly into a breakout room.
 Drag and drop a participant’s name into another breakout room. 
 Click Shuffle   to randomly mix up the groups.
5. At the bottom right, click Open rooms.

Tip: A notification will be displayed at the bottom of the screen when participants ask for help
from the moderator. To join that participant's breakout room, click Join. To return to that question
later, click Later. On the breakout room panel, an ‘Asked for help’ banner is displayed above
rooms that ask for help.

Conduct a poll in a video call

For meeting moderators: 

As a meeting moderator, you can create polls for participants to vote on. After the meeting, the
moderator is automatically emailed a report of the poll results. The report includes the names
and answers of the participants.

Anyone who schedules or starts a meeting will be the meeting host. If you transfer or schedule a
meeting on someone else's calendar, the other person could become the meeting host. By
default, there is only one meeting host per meeting, but you can add up to 25 co-hosts once
inside the meeting.

Create a poll 
1. In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities     click Polls.
2. Click Start a poll. 
3. Enter a question and add options for the poll.
4. Choose one:
 To post your poll, click Launch.
 To save your poll so that you can launch it later, click Save.
Tip: Polls that you save remain listed under Polls for the duration of the video call.
After the call ends, all polls are permanently deleted. Meeting moderators are
emailed a polling report at the end of the meeting.

 Moderate a poll 
1. In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities     click Polls.
2. Optional: To let participants see a poll’s results, next to 'Show everyone the results', click
Switch on  .
3. Optional: To close a poll and not allow responses, click End the poll.                                 
Tip: Participants can still view the poll.
4. To permanently delete a poll from your list of polls, click Delete  .                                   
Tip: No one can view deleted polls. 

View a poll report

After a meeting, the moderator is emailed a report for any polls conducted in the meeting. The
report includes the names and answers of the meeting participants. 
 1. Open the poll report email.
2. Click the report attachment.

For meeting participants: 

As a meeting participant, you can submit a response for a poll. 

You'll get a notification in the meeting when the moderator starts a poll. Make sure that you
submit your response before the poll or meeting ends. 

1. In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities     click Polls.

2. In the poll, select your response   click Vote.
Tip: After you click Vote, you can’t change your response