Managing the echo in Google Meet

Google has added a tool to help you identify echos on your call as well as suggestions to correct it!  Please see the Google blog post here.

Google Meet Overview

Here’s a comprehensive blog post from Kasey Bell (ShakeUpLearning) with a Google Meet overview. She does note when upgrades are required (our district does not have the paid version, so we will not have those features).  It does cover the upcoming updates.

Prep in the Green Room

Like the Green Room on TV (where you can check your appearance and audio), Google Meet now has this option before you join a call. 

According to Google:

With this new feature, you can enter meetings confident that your technology is working and that you’ll appear the way you want to others.

For example, you can catch issues like:

• An unintentionally muted microphone

• A secondary display monitor with a missing headphone or speaker connection

• Other audio issues, such as poor sound quality, audio that’s too loud, or your microphone amplifying background noises

Before you join the call, select Check your audio and video

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 Then you can check your options as well as make a short video clip. 

Close the window and then you can join the call.

Google Attendance Form and Tracking

 

Eric Curts has created a Google Form/Spreadsheet where he has built in a pivot table that will summarize and sort the data.  This will work for us since we don't have the Enterprise version with the built-in attendance form.

Just make a copy and then post the link for the form in your Meet (or WebEx) call.  Please see his blog post here (the link to copy the material is in the post). His video will help you with any questions.

Alice explains Jamboard in Meet

Here’s a blog post from Alice Keeler about the new Google Jamboard integration in Google Meet.  If you need additional Jamboard information, please see the Wakelet here.

Google Meet and Jamboard

Google recently announced the integration of Meet and Jamboard (please see here for the details).  It will roll out over the next 2-4 weeks.

New Google Features (Part 2)

Here’s Google’s take on their new offerings- but just a reminder that we don’t have the Enterprise version of G Suite-so many of the new features will not be coming to us.

Google Meet and Classroom

If you would like one more look at the new integration of Google Meet and Classroom, please see this post (and video) from Richard Byrne here.

Google Meet in Classroom!

Check out the Google Meet integration for Classroom.  Alice Keeler has all the details here.