Final Hangout Meet - What's New
Now it's easy for every customer to have a broad conference meeting with the keep track of the sessions, seminars and meetings through recording.
Extended Hangout Meet premium features to all G Suite customers till September 30, 2020.
On 9th April 2020 new advanced premium features were added to Google meet video-conferencing capabilities, available at no cost to all G Suite Basic, Business, Education, and Nonprofit customers to make sure that the business organizations and educators continue their work during this crisis.
Impact: Admin and end-users.
Now Include:
1. Up to 250 participants per call for all versions of the G-suite
2. Record meetings
Rollout pace and availability:
- Free accessible advance features and available to all G Suite users
To accomplish the meeting with teammates, clients, or customers around the globe is critical to getting your job done, so even the G-suite basic now includes the video conference facility meeting of up to 250 participants per call which was previously only possible with the G-suite enterprise or G-suite enterprise for education editions. Keeping the Covid-19 situation in mind, where it becomes quite imperative to schedule the video conferencing with almost every participant of an organisation to cope up with the business demands and to keep the business up and running, this step has been taken.
- Record meetings and save them to google drive
Firstly, you must be a G-suite administrator to record a meeting and turn ON the recording for an account.
Log in with the administrator credentials, Go to the admin console home page > go to apps > G-suite > hangout meets and google hangout, Click > meet settings
If you want to apply the settings to everyone, select the top organizational unit,
Else select the organisational unit or a group. Select the recording or check or uncheck the box let people record their meetings box accordingly and click save.
- Start or stop a recording
Note: Recordings available for the computer version only, mobile users get notified only but have no control over the recordings.
1. Click meet > start or join a meeting {to join a meet enter a link}
2. Click on more i.e a three vertical dot option
On the bottom right of the window.
3. Now click on the > record meeting
4. A pop-up box will appear asking for consent just accept it.
5. The recording will start and in the same way to stop the recording
Click on the three dot option more and then stop recording.
Wait for the recording file to be saved to the organizers My drive>meet recordings folder.
Also, a recording link will be sent to the email address of the organizer.
To add the recorded file to the Google drive > select the file > click add to drive.
