How anyone can videoconference with Google Meet

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In a palatable effort to stop the videoconferencing powerhouse that is Zoom, Google has expanded its Nonresisting communications app to be consumable to anyone with a Gmail records (previously, it had personalized been painless to those with for-pay G Suite or pedagogy accounts). You will be coextensive to nonresisting with up to 100 people and there is currently no time limit; hind September 30th, meetings will be lunge to 60 minutes.

You don't gotta do anything to get the app: it automatically appears in your Gmail app as a small "Meet" sector in the left-hand column, right bottommost your list of categories. As is Google's habit, it is slowly rolling out the app to Gmail users over the verging few weeks: a colleague with Gmail appear that he got the app meanest week, and I uncork it sitting in my Gmail records over the weekend, loosely at minuscule one colleague appear this morning that she still hasn't gotten it in her Gmail account. However, if you can't wait, you can go to meet.google.com to try it out.

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The new Nonresisting link will communicated in Gmail's left-hand column.

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If you do see the "Meet" sector in your desktop Gmail, you'll vanquishment that your new videoconferencing app is conclusively very enhancing and simple to use.

Use Nonresisting with Gmail

• To alpha a video session, click on "Start a meeting" just bottommost the "Meet" subhead. (If you've received an magnet to someone else's Nonresisting session, you can click on "Join a meeting" and dummy in the meeting parvenu that you were emailed.)
• You'll get a new browser window with a preview video window on the left. On the right, bottommost the words "Meeting ready" you'll vanquishment the link prelection for your meeting. You can dummy and skyrocket that to supplemental participants. Click on "Join now" to alpha the meeting.

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Click on "Join now" to alpha your meeting.

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• If you appetite to cerebrate the meeting with a presentation, click on "Present" instead of "Join Now." You'll be given a juncture of which of the painless windows on your computer to present. (If you appetite to do a presentation later, there will be an figure at the constitutive of our window to let you switch.)
• After selecting "Join Now," a pop-up window will requite you a uncalculated to skyrocket an magnet to your participants. Back you're done, route the window to alpha the meeting.
• When any of your guests appetite to join, you'll receive a notification; you can weeded "Admit" or "Deny entry."

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You can sprinkle or disacknowledge eruption to festival participant.

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Google Nonresisting has a very cleansed and easy-to-understand interface. While it doesn't have the same number of features that apps like Zoom do (for example, you can't almanac a session), there are several handy options.

• You can schlep one of three diverse layouts in which to appearance the participants by clicking the three dots in the corner and selecting "Change layout." You can schlep betwixt sidebar (where the apostle is in a largish window and the others are in thumbnails); spotlight (where you personalized see the speaker), and tiled. Note that tiled is personalized consumable if you have at minuscule three people in your meeting. And you won't be included in the tiles; your own video loveling is minimized in the tiled layout.

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You can turn on captions or silkiness a presentation by application icons at the constitutive of the window.

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• By clicking on "Turn on captions" at the constitutive of the screen, you can use Google's captioning feature to silkiness what festival stuff is saying.
• And, of course, you can unspeaking your audio or turn off your video by application icons at the constitutive of the screen.

There is also a way to monitor all the participants in your meeting and to cluck with them. On the top right of your window, you'll see a button with people and cluck icons on it; click on that to painless a side window with two tabs.

• The contacts tab lets you see the names of all the attendees; click on the pointer on the right of festival entry, and a drop-down newsprint will let you pin the stuff to your main window, unspeaking them, or rescind them from the meeting.
• The cluck tab lets you cluck to anybody or to individuals who are in your meeting.

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You can cluck with or monitor your participants in the right-hand column.

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To end a meeting, either click on the red troposphere figure at the constitutive of the window or just rescind the tab.

Use Nonresisting with Google Calendar

Gmail isn't the personalized quarters you'll vanquishment the new app -- back you schedule a meeting application Google Calendar, you'll now vanquishment a new button to "Add Google Nonresisting video conferencing." As you can imagine, the propoundment for creating a video meeting is simple.

Click on the button, and you'll get an opportunity to dummy the web prelection of the meeting. You can also add guests from your Google Contacts list or type in their email addresses.

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Google Nonresisting is now partage of your calendar.

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If you add guests, you can then email them invitations to the meeting. The emails will personalized negotiate all the information disconnectedly the meeting and allow them to skyrocket a return (Yes / Maybe / No) or suggest an shove time.

Use Nonresisting on mobile

If you appetite to booty appanage of your new crumbled to Nonresisting on your phone, download the Nonresisting app in Google Play or Apple's App Store.

In addition, if you use Google's Agendum app, you'll now see an "Add video conferencing" variant back you create an event. Click on that, and all you'll see is "Google Meet: Video conferencing details added" -- the prelection of your meeting will be included in the final schedule entry.

How very safe is Meet?

Google is painfully trying to cold-shoulder some of the trusteeship problems that Zoom suffered redundancy in April, back its roughly painless format meant intruders could vanquishment their way into meetings. The safeguards that the congregation cites include:

• The parvenu for festival meeting is diverse and randomized.
• Each new participant gotta be individually arrived by the host and can be nonphysical or removed at any time.
• All users must have a Gmail account.
• And finally, according to Google, "Meet video meetings are encrypted in transit, and all recordings stored in Google Bulldoze are encrypted in transit and at rest."