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Organizers of Enterprise for Education meetings can now use breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller groups during video calls in Meet. Participants can then easily rejoin the original meeting following their smaller group discussion.

This feature will be launching to additional Google Workspace editions later this year.

With this highly-requested feature, educators can offer increased engagement in their classes by splitting students up for simultaneous small group discussions or working time. Moderators can also jump between breakout rooms to monitor and participate in discussions.

You can create up to 100 breakout rooms in a call. Call participants will then be randomly and equally distributed across the rooms. You can also manually move people into different rooms. Check out the Help Center for more details.

While only event creators can create breakout rooms, anyone with a Google account that is joining from the web or through the Meet app can be a participant.

Breakout rooms must be created during a video call on a computer.

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.

End users: This feature will be available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using breakout rooms in Meet.

Available to Enterprise for Education customers

Not available to Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education, and Nonprofits customers. Stay tuned to the Google Workspace Updates blog for information when this launches to additional customers.

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Organizers of Enterprise for Education meetings can now use breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller groups during video calls in Meet. Participants can then easily rejoin the original meeting following their smaller group discussion. This feature will be launching to additional Google Workspace editions later this year.

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How to engage your students without breakout rooms

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Thom Kiddle's webinar on teaching asynchronously

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Thom Kiddle's webinar on teaching asynchronously

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This webinar will look at principles and practices in asynchronous online learning - that is, online learning activities that students do at a time of their own choosing in a virtual learning environment, and which is supported by tutors and/or pre- programmed feedback.

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Teaching online - using your coursebook and ideas for breakout rooms

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About the webinar The British Council is committed to supporting the use of technology for the continuation of education in a crisis. As many teachers find themselves in an unfamiliar situation of having to teach their classes online, with little or no experience, the British Council TeachingEnglish website is committed to providing as much support as possible to help you navigate your way through the world of online teaching.

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This is what you need to know about using Google Meet in your Classroom

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Through July 1, 2020, educators and IT administrators preparing for potential school closures can use premium video conferencing features in Hangouts Meet. For more information, go to the Google for Education blog post.

How can Meet help you?

If your students have a computer or mobile device with internet access, teachers can continue instruction over video using Meet. With premium Meet features, teachers can record lessons and share them with students, live-stream to large groups, or host live meetings with up to 250 participants.

By default, G Suite for Education has Meet turned on. If Meet was turned off, you can turn it back on.

Set up Meet

Changes can take up to 24 hours to propagate to all users. In the meantime, some users might not be able to access video calling.

Step 1: Turn on Meet video calling

1. From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
G Suite
Hangouts Meet and Google Hangouts.

2. At the top, verify that the Hangouts service is "ON for everyone" (enabled for both staff and students). If it's not enabled, follow these steps:

1. Next to Service status, click the Down arrow and select ON for everyone.

2. Click Save.

3. Configure which users can start a video meeting and other settings:

1. From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
G Suite
Hangouts Meet and Google Hangouts.

2. Click Meet settings.

3. To apply the setting to everyone, leave the top organizational unit selected. Otherwise, select a child organizational unit or a configuration group.
Recommended: Only select organizational units that contain faculty and staff. If you use Classroom and have verified teachers, you can select your Classroom Teachers group.

4. Next to "Video calling," at the top right of the gray box, click Edit .

5. Check the Let users place video and voice calls box.

6. Click Save.

You can also update other video meeting access, such as joining a meeting by phone. Learn more

Note: For education accounts, only the meeting creator, calendar event owner, or person who sets up a meeting on an in-room hardware device can mute or remove video meeting participants. This ensures student participants can't mute or remove one another or the teacher. (This automatic restriction is being applied to all education accounts, starting March 19, 2020.)

Step 2: Turn on live streaming

Step 3: Turn on meeting recording

View the Meet features available to a user or group

To make sure advanced Meet features, such as recording and live streaming, are only available to specific users, view the settings that are turned on or off for a specific user, Google Group, or organizational unit.

1. From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
G Suite
Hangouts Meet and Google Hangouts.

2. Click Meet settings section to expand it.
The Meet settings page shows the features that are turned on or off for that user, group, or organizational unit.

3. On the left, select an option.

To search by username, click Users and search for the username. Meet settings can't be changed for an individual user. Instead, add them to an organizational unit or a group that has the correct Meet settings.

To search by group, click Groups and search for the group name or email address. To turn a Meet feature on or off for that group, click a setting name, change the setting, and click Override.

To search by organizational unit, click Organizational Units and select or search for an organizational unit. To turn a Meet feature on or off for that organizational unit, click a setting name, change the setting and click Override.

Note: Changes typically take effect in minutes, but can take up to 24 hours. For details, go to How changes propagate to Google services.
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Protect video meeting quality

Train teachers and students to use Meet

After you set up Meet in your domain, you can coach your educators and students to use Meet. Share the Hangouts Meet Help Center, the G Suite Learning Center, the new Teach from Home Resource Center, and the information below.
View Hangouts Meet quick start
For teachers

For best practices in distance learning, review the Teacher's Guide to Hangouts Meet.

For education accounts, only the meeting creator, calendar event owner, or person who sets up a meeting on an in-room hardware device can mute or remove video meeting participants. This ensures student participants can't mute or remove one another or the teacher. (This automatic restriction is being applied to all education accounts, starting March 19, 2020.)

When using Meet, participants can turn off their camera to show their profile photo instead. This can improve video meeting quality if internet speed is slow. If audio quality is poor, use a phone for audio instead.

For large classes, use a live stream instead of having students join an interactive video class meeting. To engage students while live streaming, you can use Google Slides Q&A. Or, you can pre-record a lesson to share later.

To help students who are deaf or hard of hearing, turn on live captions in Meet. To capture student responses for a recorded class, use Google Slides Q&A.

For students

Common questions

How long will the premium Hangouts Meet features be available to G Suite for Education customers?
Larger meetings, live streaming, and recorded meetings are available to all G Suite for Education customers until July 1, 2020. After this time, the domain will have the option to retain access to these features by purchasing G Suite Enterprise for Education.

Local non-US dial-in numbers for meetings are not included in this program. G Suite for Education customers continue to have access to US dial-in phone numbers.

Can I turn on Hangouts Meet but disable classic Hangouts (chat)?
No. For more information, go toClassic Hangouts to Meet FAQ.

Can I add Hangouts Meet video meetings from Outlook?
Yes. For more information, go toAdd Meet video meetings to Outlook.

Some of my users use other video conferencing tools. Can they join Hangouts Meet video calls?
Yes. For more information, go toSet up interoperability.

What if I'm a current G Suite Enterprise for Education customer?
If you've already purchased G Suite Enterprise for Education for your entire domain, you'll need to assign faculty licenses to the users you want to have access to the premium features, and enable those features in the Admin Console. If you purchased G Suite Enterprise for Education for a subset of your domain, all users without Enterprise licenses will have access to the premium features, but you'll still need to enable them for specific organizational units in the Admin Console..

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Through July 1, 2020, educators and IT administrators preparing for potential school closures can use premium video conferencing features in Hangouts Meet. For more information, go to the Google for Education blog post. If your students have a computer or mobile device with internet access, teachers can continue instruction over video using Meet.