Google Meet: Overview

Provides summary video of Google Meet with Dann Hurlbert + article links to commonly accessed features and functions.

Google Meet Overview

For a video overview of Google Meet's features and functionality, users can watch this video (link opens in a new tab): 

For a cheat sheet (by Google) users can check out this link (link opens in a new tab)

Links to specific tools:

• Installing the web app (link opens in a new tab)

• Your video and audio (link opens in a new tab)

• Changing your view or layout (link opens in a new tab) (e.g. gallery view vs speaker view)

• Scheduling a meeting (link opens in a new tab)

• Meeting setup options are available here (link opens in a new tab) by clicking on the gear symbol in the upper right corner.

• Sharing your screen (link opens in a new tab)  (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 (link opens in a new tab)

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

• Closed captioning (link opens in a new tab)

  • Translated captions (link opens in a new tab)

  • Transcripts (link opens in a new tab)

• Breakout Rooms (link opens in a new tab)

• Polling (link opens in a new tab)

• Participant reaction options (link opens in a new tab)

• Recording the meeting (link opens in a new tab)

  • 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”

For an overview of additional Google Meet Features check-out Google’s knowledge base (link opens in a new tab).