As an administrator for your school or organization, you control the Google Meet features teachers and students can use.
Before you begin: Check the system requirements
Make sure you meet the system requirements for Meet. For details, go to Requirements for using Google Meet.
Step 1: Turn on Meet
You can't change Meet settings for an individual user. For details about turning on Meet for organizational units, groups, or all of your students and teachers, go to Turn on Meet meetings for your organization.
Step 2: Use Meet with Classroom
To use Meet with Classroom, Meet must be turned on for the primary teacher in the class. Then, teachers can start a meeting right from Classroom. For details, go to Set up Classroom for your school.
Step 3: Ensure meeting quality
- To limit Meet bandwidth, set the default video quality in the Google Admin console. For details, go to Prepare your network for Meet meetings.
- To troubleshoot issues, use the Meet quality tool. For details, go to Track meeting quality and statistics.
Step 4: Secure Meet inside and out
You can turn on some Meet features exclusively for teachers by setting access controls by age. For details, go to Control access to Google services by age.
Step 5: Turn on Meet features
You can turn on some Meet features exclusively for teachers by setting access controls by age. For details, go to Control access to Google services by age.
To ensure teachers or students don't share accounts, provision one account for each user. For details, go to Add an account for a new user.
Turn on live streaming & recording
Recommended only for faculty and staff
- You can turn on live streaming to allow people in your organization to watch a Google Meet meeting without participating. For details, go to Turn live streaming on or off for Meet.
- You can also allow meeting organizers and participants in the same organization to record Meet meetings. For details, go to Turn recording on or off for Meet.
Turn on attendance reporting for teachers
You can turn attendance reporting on so that meeting organizers and teachers get a list of who attended their meetings. For details, go to Let organizers get reports on meeting attendance & live stream views.
For more information about the features you can turn on for your users, go to Manage Meet settings (for admins).
(Optional) Step 6: Use Meet with 3rd-party tools
- People that use other conferencing tools can join Meet meetings. For details, go to Allow 3rd party devices to join Meet meetings.
- You can use Meet with Microsoft Outlook. For details, go to Add Meet meetings to Outlook.
Step 7: Share support & training resources
Share these resources with your teachers and students: