Use Meet controls

1. Use Meet controls

When you’re in the meeting, you can adjust more preferences by using the Google Meet controls. Here, you can mute your mic, stop your webcam video, or leave the meeting. There are also buttons to enable closed captions, raise your hand, and share your screen. Closed captions convert the audio of the meeting to scrolling lines of text that are shown within your Google Meet window. Google Meet supports captions in several languages. However, if you record a call, the captions do not appear on the recording. You can raise your hand in Google Meet through the raise hand button to let everyone in the meeting know you want to speak. After you’ve finished speaking, you can click the same button and lower your hand. You can also open the queue of raised hands to see all attendees who raised their hands ordered from first to last. Now, let’s consider presenting to a meeting. Letting the attendees see what’s on your computer screen makes sharing information easier and more engaging. In a Google Meet, you can share your entire screen, which makes your entire desktop visible to attendees, or you can share a single app window, or a single Chrome tab. Sharing a Chrome tab also shares the audio of any content on the tab, which makes it the best way to share a video from YouTube or Drive with the meeting. You can also switch to sharing a different tab by clicking Share this tab instead. When you’re presenting content, your webcam video is still visible to attendees. To start presenting, click Present now on the call controls bar and choose a presentation mode. Your Google Meet tab will say You are presenting when others can see your screen. You can click Stop presenting to end your screen share. Note that more than one person can share their screen at a time, but only the most recent share is highlighted, although the previous share is still visible to attendees.

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Google Workspace End User: Google Meet

BeginnerSkill Level

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This module covers the agenda. It also introduces students to On the Rise and the course business challenge.

Exercise 1: Course introduction Exercise 2: Agenda

In this module, we will introduce you to Google Meet.

Exercise 1: Introduction to Google Meet Exercise 2: Quiz Question 1

In this module, you’ll explore the Google Meet environment so that you can become more familiar with it. You’ll explore the different ways that you can open Google Meet and add people to a video conference. You’ll also learn how to join a meeting from different sources such as a calendar event or a meeting link.

Exercise 1: Using Google Meet Exercise 2: Start a video conference Exercise 3: Activity 1 explained Exercise 4: Activity 1 Schedule an event and add a Google Meet link Exercise 5: Join a video conference Exercise 6: Activity 2 explained Exercise 7: Activity 2 Identify Google Meet link and dial-in information Exercise 8: Adding participants to an active meeting Exercise 9: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 10: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 11: Quiz Question 3 Exercise 12: Quiz Question 4

This module focuses on how Google Meet can help you communicate better, and exchange ideas. We explore the different ways to share relevant documents with your team before and during meetings. We discuss how to customize the Google Meet environment to fit your needs and how to effectively collaborate with participants during a video conference.

Exercise 1: Collaborate in Google Meet Exercise 2: Manage audio and video Exercise 3: Use Meet controls

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Exercise 4: View and chat with participants Exercise 5: Change meeting layout Exercise 6: Google Calendar event options Exercise 7: Activity 3 explained Exercise 8: Activity 3 Add a Google doc meeting agenda to Google Calendar Exercise 9: Use Companion Mode Exercise 10: Present and share resources in meetings Exercise 11: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 12: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 13: Quiz Question 3 Exercise 14: Quiz Question 4 Exercise 15: Collaborate in Google Meet: Additional Resources

In this module, you’ll explore how you can customize meeting access and moderation settings before and during Google Meet video conferences. You’ll learn how to use collaborative features like breakout rooms, polls, Q&As, and whiteboarding to quickly get opinions and questions and facilitate smaller discussions for meeting attendees. You’ll also explore the capabilities of Google Meet that support different meeting use cases like live streaming, recording, and the transcripts feature.

Exercise 1: Host management in Google Meet Exercise 2: Host controls Exercise 3: Preconfigure host controls Exercise 4: Engage with participants Exercise 5: Record a meeting Exercise 6: Activity 4 explained Exercise 7: Activity 4 Record a Google Meet video meeting Exercise 8: Live stream a meeting Exercise 9: Whiteboarding Exercise 10: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 11: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 12: Quiz Question 3 Exercise 13: Host Management in Google Meet: Additional Resources

In this module, you will put everything you have learned into practice by helping our fictional Google Workspace customer solve their business challenge.

Exercise 1: Business challenge overview Exercise 2: Business challenge Exercise 3: Activity 5 Business challenge Exercise 4: Wrap up