Audience:  All staff and students

System Preferences:  Any device, Chrome browser preferred

Google Meet

Google Meet Website

What is Google Meet?

• Video, audio, text conferencing tool
  
  

• Available to BCSC staff and students
  
  

• Supports up to 250 participants
  
  

• Accessible via weblink or phone dial-in
  
  

• Automatic closed captions available
  
  

• Can be recorded and saves in Google Drive

Key Details and Settings:

• Only BCSC staff can create a Meet conference call
  
  

• Staff can control who can enter a Meet
  
  

• Staff can control microphones in a Meet (mute)
  
  

• Staff can remove participants in a Meet
  
  

• Staff can rejoin prior Meets, students cannot
  
  

• Staff members can record/save Meets
  

• Only staff members can use “present mode”

Beginning a Meet

• Go to Google Meet- meet.google.com, click “Join or Start Meeting”

• You MUST give your meeting a nickname!
  • Helps with security settings and closing the call
  • Click continue when finished

• When prompted, grant access to your mic and camera. Then, click join call. 

• The join info will appear. You can copy and share this info with students so they may join via weblink or dialing in. Close the window.

Meet Controls and Features

• Mic, camera, closed captions, and “present mode” toggles are all visible on the bottom toolbar.
• Click the 3-dot button in the bottom right corner for the option to record the call.

• List of call participants, text-based chat with participant tools are located on the top toolbar. 
• Participants may need permission to join. 
• To mute a participants’ microphone, click their icon and the microphone button.

• When ready to wrap up a call, instruct students to leave the call by hanging up/exiting. Students MUST leave a call before a teacher. The teacher can remove the student from the call by clicking the student from the participant menu and click “remove from call”.
• When all students have left, the teacher can leave the call. The join link expires within 30 seconds of the teacher leaving.
• If recording, the file will upload into Google Drive within a few hours in a folder, “Meet Recordings”.

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