New in Google Meet

• Meet moderator capabilities for education users
• More Meet participant controls for education meetings
• See up to 49 people, including yourself, in Google Meet
• Blur your background in Google Meet
• Host collaborative brainstorms with new digital whiteboarding integration in Google Meet
• Google Meet attendance reports (coming soon!)

If you're unable to turn these new features on or off, it's possible that you have a Chrome extension for Meet which is preventing the features from working. To fix the issue, try turning your Meet Chrome extensions off.

Meet moderator capabilities for education users

Hosts (meeting creators and calendar owners) of G Suite for Education meetings have new meeting safety controls to manage who can share their screen and who can send chat messages within the meeting.

Manage who can share their screen
To control who can share their screen in a meeting, hosts can turn "Share their screen" on or off. By default, this setting will be on.

• When "Share their screen" is on, participants will see the option to share their screen to all meeting participants.
• When "Share their screen" is off:
• Only the host can share their screen.
• The option to "Present now" won't show for participants.Hosts can turn "Share their screen" on or off from within meetings on the web. Hosts will not see the option to change this setting on mobile devices.

Manage who can send in-meeting chat messages

To control who can send chat messages in a meeting, hosts can turn "Send chat messages" on or off. By default, this setting will be on.

• When "Send chat messages" is on, participants will see the option to send chat messages to meeting participants.
• When "Send chat messages" is off:
• Only the host can send chat messages, but participants will still be able to see messages sent by the host.
• Messages sent when "Send chat messages" was on will still show in the chat history.

Hosts can turn "Send chat messages" on or off from within meetings on the web. Hosts will not see the option to change this setting on mobile devices.

More Meet participant controls for education meetings

Hosts (meeting creators and calendar owners) of G Suite for Education meetings have new meeting safety controls to manage who can join their meetings.

To control access to their meetings, hosts can turn "Quick access" on or off. By default, this setting will be on.

When "Quick access" is on:

• Participants in the same domain as the host do not need to knock to request to join the meeting.
• Participants joining by phone do not need to knock to request to join the meeting.
• Participants can dial-out from within the meeting.

When "Quick access" is turned off:

• All users, including those in the same domain as the host, must knock to request to join the meeting unless they're on the calendar invite. This includes any users who are dialing in to the meeting by phone.
• Any participants invited from within the meeting by anyone other than the host need to knock to request to join.
• Only the host can dial-out from within the meeting.

Additional functionality to the "Quick access" setting coming soon:

• When "Quick access" is off, the host must join the meeting first. Until the host joins, participants on the web will see the message: "Waiting for the Host to Join: The meeting will start as soon as the host has joined."
• Hosts can turn "Quick access" on or off for meetings created in Google Calendar in addition to those created from Google Meet.

See up to 49 people, including yourself, in Google Meet

You can now see up to 49 people (including yourself) at the same time in the auto and tiled layout options in Google Meet.

With this launch, you’ll also be able to use a slider to adjust the number of tiles you see. You may want to increase the maximum when you have a large group, or reduce the number of tiles if you have a weak internet connection. Note that the slider adjustments are specific to each meeting, it will reset between each meeting and you can then customize each time. You may also see fewer tiles depending on your window size, as the tiles available will adjust to fit your screen.








When you hover over your thumbnail in the top right corner, you’ll now see the option to add or remove yourself from the grid. These changes are only visible to you.

Blur your background in Google Meet

To help limit distractions during meetings, you can now blur the background of your video in Google Meet. When it’s turned on, Meet will intelligently separate you from the background, blurring your surroundings while keeping you clear and in focus.

Host collaborative brainstorms with new digital whiteboarding integration in Google Meet

With the new Google Jamboard and Google Meet integration, you can now create or open an existing jam while on a Meet video call. This digital whiteboarding integration means you can use the Jamboard virtually to host collaborative brainstorming sessions with your students in real-time.

You’ll also be able to save, share and continue the whiteboard at any time with Jamboard.

Note, you can only start or open a Jamboard during a Meet call if you joined the call on a computer. Video call participants on a mobile device or tablet will get a link to a Jamboard file and be directed to the Jamboard app.

Google Meet attendance reports available now for education meetings

Organizers of G Suite Enterprise for Education meetings will now receive an attendance report via email once the meeting is over. Attendance reports will be generated for web or mobile meetings with at least five (and no more than 250) participants and will contain the following information for each:

• Participant’s name
• Participant’s email
• Length of time a participant was on the call, including when they joined and exited
  
  
  

Once a meeting is finished, you’ll receive an attendance report via email.



Students who have the ability to create meetings will receive attendance reports for the meetings they have created as well.