Access and Use Google Meet

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Summary	Google Meet is video conferencing software used at the Hill and River campuses
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Create Meeting

Creating a Google Meet meeting can be done in several ways. Google Meet integrates fully with Riverdale Google accounts, and because of that there are a couple of ways you can get started.

Create Instant Meeting

Creating an instant meeting will bring you directly to the video call. From there, you can invite guests directly, but it won't show up on your Calendar. These instant meetings are typically good for quick, non-recurring video calls.

1. In your browser, go to Google Meet
2. Click New meeting
3. Click Start an instant meeting

Create Meeting in Google Calendar

If you create a Google Meet video conference in Google Calendar, all calendar invitees will automatically receive the correct link to join. This method is recommended if you know a video call will be necessary in advance of the event/meeting.

1. In your browser, go to Google Calendar
2. Click on Create on the top left of the window
3. Click on Event
4. Add the relevant Event Details (title, description, location, time, date, etc.)
5. Add a Google Meet link to your calendar appointment
   • If you've typically used Zoom in the past, click Add video conferencing, then click Google Meet
6. Invite our people to your meeting as you usually would for a calendar invite
7. Click Save

Pro-tip: if you want to automatically create Google Meet links for ALL your meetings, check out this support article from Google that shows you how to configure that on your account.

Start Meeting

• If you create an Instant Meeting, then you're meeting will automatically start
• If you created a Google Calendar Event, there are two ways to quickly star the meeting:
  1. Go to the calendar appointment, then click on Join now next to the meeting link
  2. Go to https://meet.google.com, then click on the corresponding link for your meeting on the right-hand side of the window

Access Advanced Features

Invite Meeting Guests

Send Chat Messages

Share Your Screen

Record Meetings

Create Audience Q/A

Create Audience Polls

Create Whiteboards

Raise Your Hand

Create Breakout Rooms

Change Your Background

Get Meet help and training

Need help? Choose from any of the guides below.

• Level 1: Start and join video meetings
• Level 2: Collaborate in video meetings
• Level 3: Learn productivity tips for Meet

Level 1: Start and join video meetings

• Start a video meeting
• Join a video meeting
• Add people to a meeting

Level 2: Collaborate in video meetings

Customize video meetings

• Change screen layouts in a meeting
• Pin, mute, or remove meeting participants
• Use captions in a video meeting
• Use a phone for audio in a video meeting

Share resources in a video meeting

• View meeting details and attachments
• Send chat messages to video meeting participants
• Present during a video meeting

Broadcast video meetings to a larger group

These options may or may not be available to our domain

• Record a meeting
• Live stream a video meeting

Manage Hangouts Meet settings

• Allow notifications from Meet, Chat, and classic Hangouts
• Change your camera, speakers, microphone, or video quality
• Change your mobile camera or audio device for Meet
• Use G Suite keyboard shortcuts

Troubleshoot

• Troubleshoot issues with Hangouts Meet
• View known issues with Hangouts Meet