Start a video meeting for education

• Make sure that you meet the requirements for Meet. Learn more.
• Review best practices for distance learning at the Google for Education Teacher Center. Learn more.
• Print instructions for getting started with Google Meet. Learn more.
• There's a limit to the number of people you can have in a video meeting. Learn more.
• The type of account you have determines what meetings you can join and who can join your meetings. Learn more.

Create a Meet link in your class

1. Tap Classroom   the class  Settings . 
2. Under "Manage Meet link," tap More  Generate Meet link.
3. A Meet link appears for your class.
4. Close the Settings screen.

If you make the link visible to students, it appears in their class stream.

Show or hide a Meet link for students

1. Tap Classroom   the class  Settings . 
2. Next to "Visible to students," select an option:
   • To hide the Meet link from students, tap the switch Off  .
   • To make the Meet link visible to students, tap the switch On .
3. Tap Save.

Copy a Meet link

1. Tap Classroom   the class  Settings .
2. Next to the Meet link, tap More   Copy.

Reset a Meet link

1. Tap Classroom   the class  Settings .
2.  Next to the Meet link, tap More    Reset.

Remove a Meet link

When you remove a Meet link, students won't be able to access it in that class. The old link won't be associated with the class but will be available as an independent meeting space.

1.  Tap Classroom   the class  Settings .
2.  Next to the Meet link, tap More    Remove.

Upgrade an outdated Meet link

If your Meet link is outdated, you might get a message to upgrade it. You can upgrade all outdated links or one link at a time. Outdated links won't work as intended and might let students become the host.

To get a new Meet link to replace the outdated one, upgrade your link.

1.  Tap Classroom   the class  Settings .
2.  Next to the Meet link, tap More    Upgrade.

Add a Meet link to an announcement

1. Copy the Meet link (instructions above).
2. On the Stream page, tap Announce something to your class.
3.  Enter your announcement and below it, tap Add attachment   Insert Link .
4. Paste the Meet link  tap Add.
5.  Tap Assign.

   Tip: You can also schedule the post for later or save it as a draft. For details, go to Post, schedule, or save a draft announcement.

Add a Meet link to an assignment or question

1. Copy the Meet link (instructions above).
2. On the Classwork page, tap Create  Assignment or Question.
3.  Below the assignment or question details, tap Add attachment   Insert Link .
4. Paste the Meet link  tap Add.
5.  Tap Post .

   Tip: You can also schedule the post or save it as a draft. For details, go to Post, schedule, or save a draft assignment.

After you create a Meet link for your class, you can start a video meeting in Classroom.

1. Tap Classroom .
2. Tap the class. 
3. Choose an option:
   • At the top of the Stream page, tap Meet . 
   • At the top of the Classwork page, tap Meet .
   • In a post or announcement that you shared, tap the link for the class video meeting.
4. In Meet, before you join the meeting, at the top, check that you’re signed in with your Classroom account. If you need to switch accounts, tap Switch  select the Classroom account.
5. Tap Join meeting.
6. If you’re the first to join the meeting, you can add others. If you already shared the meeting link with your students, you can close the window. 
7. When the meeting is over, tap the meeting window  End call  to leave the meeting. 

In Meet, you can start an impromptu meeting or one that you previously set up. After you start the meeting, you can share the joining information with your students in a Classroom post or message.

Before you begin, install Meet on your device. After you open Meet, be sure to sign in with your Classroom account.

Tip: For greater control, you can use nicknamed meetings. Students can’t rejoin a nicknamed meeting if you are the last to leave.

Related topics

• Start a Google Meet video meeting
• Add or remove people from a video meeting

You can create a class video meeting in Google Calendar and invite your students to join.

Tip: If you create an event on someone's calendar, or transfer an event to their calendar, make sure you understand the video conferencing policies.

Set up a video meeting in Calendar 

1. Open Google Calendar and sign in with your Classroom account. 
2. Tap Create  Event.
3. Choose an option:
   • To invite people now, tap Add guests  enter your students' names or email addresses  tap Done.
   • To create a Meet link for the event, tap Add video conferencing.
4. Enter other meeting details  tap Save.

Start a video meeting in Calendar

Before you can start a video meeting in Calendar, you have to set one up (instructions above). 

1. In Google Calendar, tap the event  Join with Google Meet.
2. Before you join, at the bottom, make sure you’re signed in with your school account. If you need to switch accounts, tap Switch  select the Classroom account. 
3. Tap Join. 

Watch a live-stream event

If the creator of the video meeting included a live-stream link, tap the link to watch on your mobile device’s web browser. The Meet app is not required. 

Tip: You can’t create or start and stop a live-stream event on your mobile device. For details, go to Live stream a video meeting.

Leave a video meeting

Tap the meeting window  End call . 

• Start or join a video call from Gmail
• Add people to a video meeting

As the teacher, you control who can access video meetings for your class.

When you create a Meet link for your class, you become the meeting host and current co-teachers of your class become co-hosts.

Tip: If you add or remove co-teachers from your class, their host status automatically updates.

How students join your video meeting

Your video meeting starts when you or any co-teacher joins. When students try to join, they enter a waiting room until a teacher joins the meeting.

After the meeting starts, students in your class don’t have to ask to join the meeting.

To restrict unauthorized participants in the meeting:

• Anyone who's not part of your class must first ask to join.
• You get notified when someone wants to join the meeting.
• You can decide whether to let someone join.

Tip: To allow students and other meeting participants to join without a teacher present, you can control meeting access with host controls.

Manage co-hosts

When Host Management is on, the main host of a meeting can add and remove co-hosts. Learn more.

Tips:

• If Host Management is turned off and then on again, previously appointed co-hosts are retained.
• You can't appoint co-teachers as co-hosts if you:
  • Don’t use a Google Workspace for Education account for Classroom.
  • Use a personal Google Account.

1. In the video meeting, tap More  next to the participant’s name.
2. Select an option:
   • To mute the participant, tap Mute  Mute.
   • To remove the participant, tap Remove  Remove.

If you remove a participant, they can't request to rejoin the video meeting. On your computer, you can invite them again.

Hosts can end the meeting for everyone on a Google Meet meeting. 'End the call for everyone' ends the meeting and automatically removes all participants, so that the hosts don’t have to remove participants manually.

Learn how to end a meeting for all.