Meet: Common Features and Functions

Meetings

• Your video and audio

• Changing your view or layout (e.g. gallery view vs speaker view)

• Scheduling a meeting

• Meeting setup options are available at https://meet.google.com/landing?hs=197&authuser=1 by clicking on the gear symbol in the upper right corner.

• Sharing your screen (including sharing individual tabs, a specific window, or your entire screen)

  • Information about “co-presenting” Google Slides presentations within a Meet can be found here: Co-present slides 

• Using Google Meet with Google Docs, Sheets & Slides (including joining a meeting directly from a doc, sheet, or slide presentation)

• Closed captioning 

  • Translated captions

  • Transcripts

• Breakout Rooms

• Polling

• Participant reaction options

• Recording the meeting

  • Recordings save to the meeting host's Google Drive in a folder called "Meet Recordings."

  • An email containing the recording link will also be sent to both the meeting organizer and the person who started the recording.

  • Hosts can set Meets to start recording automatically within their Meets Settings, under “Meeting records”

• To install and use the Google Meet App:  Google Chrome doesn’t need to be your default browser, but Chrome must be open.

  • On your computer, go to meet.google.com.
  • At the top right of your browser, in the URL bar, click Install .
  • The Meet app appears in your app dock.